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Walmart To Close Online Music Store
UnknowingFool writes "Beginning August 28, 2011 Walmart will close its online downloadable music store. After eight years, Walmart will no longer offer music for download but will still sell physical music formats. Walmart will keep their DRM servers online for customers that purchased their music with DRM. Despite having cheaper music, the store's market is tiny compared to No. 1 and 2, Apple and Amazon respectively."
In before "Its the pirates' fault"
For how long?
the more you know. Not that I would ever use their service.
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Don't buy food from them either. Don't let them drive all the other grocery stores in town out of business, the way they did all the department stores and mom-and-pops. Don't encourage them.
If the community at large prefers to shop at Wal-Mart over the smaller stores, then by definition it IS providing more value to them.
If by Anti-capitalist you mean someone who supports small businesses over the larger, who supports a company with creativity instead of stealing ideas of small businesses, who treats their employees fairly instead of paying men more and women less, who supports competition to better the community, and who does not like the idea that jobs were forced overseas by Walmart to reduce the cost of products sold there causing "slave labor" camps in those respective countries, then yes.... I think that is what he means.
Oh, and I dont shop at Walmart either.
So anyone who jumps aboard their video streaming service announced 2 weeks ago can get a glimpse of their future right now, eh?
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
So the "invisible hand" is required by capitalism, but any actions that are that "invisible hand" are anti-capitalist? How does that work? He's placing a value on a store being in business. Sadly, the cheapest way to get what he wants is likely "anti-capitalistic" charity, to buy from the cheapest place, then donate the savings to the preferred store. The free market does not, and never has, existed in the US, and Americans do not want the Free Market and given the choice of a regulated capitalism or "free market" Americans *never* choose the "free market" (not that anyone ever has chosen the free market, and the corporations spend millions every year violating the "rules" of a free market, so if we had one, the participants would break it within hours of its creation). Free market capitalism has never worked even once in the history of the planet. Perhaps the impossibility is why Loonitarians everywhere love it so much. You can't prove them wrong when it's never been tried before (or failed so fast that it could be argued it wasn't given a fair chance, always ignoring the fact that it never worked and failed almost instantly).
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Ah yes "teh marketz will solve everything!". I hope YOUR job gets shipped overseas. I'm sure YOU wouldn't expect anyone in government to care. Maybe if you became more efficient and worked for less money...
Most people, historically at least, on slashdot work in the IT industry. Market instability and absolutely no loyalty from our employers is what we *expect*. Our grandfathers, possibly fathers, are the last generation that believed the places they started working at when they were 18 would be the places they would retire from. I prefer this, perhaps when I have a family and kids and need stability I'll change my mind but my rational mind has no issue with it. If me being unemployed means that the government doesn't put its fingers deeper into my life its worth it.
The Goal: A long simple life filled with many complex toys.
I'm a firm anti-Walmart person, I and totally agree with not just buying stuff local because it is local.
There are a lot of mom & pops that are complete assholes & act like you MUST shop with them anyhow, while they buy their raw materials from Walmart. A local ice-cream shop complained to me about people not shopping local & admitted to me that she buys her stuff from Walmart. Now, I go to the chain Cold Stone.
On the other hand, the local bike shop waited for me to get to his shop 45 minutes after he closed so I could get my bike. Now, I pay higher prices for things like cycling clothes buying them from him instead of some online place. I think of it as a "tip" for such good service.
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
I never even knew they had a music store, and would have boycotted it just the same as we have their big box stores if I had.
Still, its ironic that the first time I hear about it is when it's closing.
Exercising one's choice to not deal with a particular vendor is the very quintessence of free market.