Your Local Wal-Mart Is Coming To Facebook
Seeing as Wal-Mart has colonized every corner of the United States and then some, rural and urban, the retail empire will expand beyond the American Landscape into the infinite depths of the world wide web.
The big announcement today, of course, is a partnership between mega social network Facebook and mega retailer Wal-Mart.
The Huffington Post reports the partnership between the giants and explains that “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aims to recreate the feel of a local store for its more than 9 million Facebook fans.“
Facebook will expand to house over 3,500 Wal-Mart local Facebook Pages. Each of these pages will facilitate local customer engagement, as well as feed information on new products, events, and DISCOUNTS!
This is a big deal for social media! No other company has made Facebook Pages for each individual location, especially a company as big as Wal-Mart– the largest retailer in the world.
Wal-Mart is on a mission to convince consumers that they are a down-to-earth brand, despite the fact that they are quite obviously a ginormous corporation. These local brand pages are coming just in time for black-Friday frenzy and Christmas shopping.
By creating brand pages for individual locations, Wal-Mart will definitely see an increase in consumer confidence however the whole push for a local image is a phony bologna put-on to increase sales and grow their brand up to the pearly gates of corporate heaven.
Is this social media evil or am I overreacting because I’m young and naive, let me know?
According to Stephen Quinn, executive vice president of Wal-Mart’s U.S. division,
“This allows us to make our stores relevant on a local level…This addresses our ‘next-generation’ customers who are using a lot of social media. A national message is often not as relevant….We are just getting started on a social media revolution.”
I hate seeing that phrase, “social media revolution”, thrown-around. If Wal-Mart is leading the “social media revolution” we are all royally screwed. Social media is a good thing, like television was once a good thing, or tax laws (there weren’t any).
Nevertheless, the whole concept is absolutely wonderful, it’s huge for brands, maybe even bigger than the “Like” button. Facebook could do this for a ton of other brands as well, the resources necessary to undertake the project may even wean down the unemployment rate.
IDK Speaking of Wal-Mart, check-out my favorite Wal-Mart websites, Funny Pictures at WalMart, and browse through the ridiculous, the horrifying, and the down-right insane; Consumers of every shape, size, color, creed, and brain wave.
Do you follow Wal-Mart on Facebook? Comment and let us know what you think about Wal-Mart going “local”.
[via Huffington Post]
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I've never been in a Walmart and have no plans to!
Good for the SERPS , good for customers to speak their minds .....
Might be worth checking out then as I know I use to find smoking deals there!
I used to never shop there but I'm a cheapskate and only buy from the Clearance rack.. Can't pass up $3 shirts! ~Scott
They post sum of the candid random smart pics
I use to live in Florida and did all my polo T shopping at TJ Max. I refuse to buy anything at any Wal-Mart.
I get that Robert but it is a US based company and everyone that works in the stores in the US are hard working US citizens.. So that I have no problem with. But I do think Wal-Mart along with McDonald's are the root to alot of our health problems and financial problems globally.. But I can't help but shop there!! Their polo shirts are so dang cheap!!! (funny thing is I'm heading there now to get a toy for my kids!! lol) ~Scott
Sorry, well actually no I'm not! For the exact same reasons David refused Chinese investors for Hubze I am very much opposed to Wal-Mart and so are a growing number of Americans concerned about Jobs and Manufacturing in the US.
I get why they are doing it so the pages can be more local focused. I have friends and family that work at a Wal-Mart in a small town and every store has different product based on location. So would be easier to let local people know about the sales and etc. But who will manage that? Will a local employee have to deal with it? That will never work. And the main page for Wal-Mart has over 9 million Likes. Will they be able to get people to Like local pages? I doubt it.. ~Scott
BOOOOOOOO HISSSSSSS!!!!
Bad. Very bad.
Well it doesn't really matter because the evil empire will do whatever they want. If my news fee or recent stories or subscriptions for whatever it's called now get's flooded with Wal-Mart because of their million locations I will just hide everything from them. I do my best to stay out of their stores and will do my best to hide from them on here too =)
Why would that be bad?
I really don't care
It will be easier to let them know that their cashiers are rude to the customers and more concerned about "break time" than service!
I doubt they would allow for comments! or even user posts. I would hate to be their social media manager...that's overkill
I think it's unnecessary for EVERY location to have a fan page. Maybe regions or states or something, but every location? Yeah....that's too much.
Actually, I think that will be a good thing if each store has its own fb fan page, but only if they leave up all comments customers make, not just the ones that go WalMart's way.
WalMart SUCKS.
WalMart SUCKS.
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I've never been in a Walmart and have no plans to!
Good for the SERPS , good for customers to speak their minds .....
Might be worth checking out then as I know I use to find smoking deals there!
I used to never shop there but I'm a cheapskate and only buy from the Clearance rack.. Can't pass up $3 shirts! ~Scott
Wal-Mart's gonna be a Spammer
They post sum of the candid random smart pics
I use to live in Florida and did all my polo T shopping at TJ Max. I refuse to buy anything at any Wal-Mart.
I get that Robert but it is a US based company and everyone that works in the stores in the US are hard working US citizens.. So that I have no problem with. But I do think Wal-Mart along with McDonald's are the root to alot of our health problems and financial problems globally.. But I can't help but shop there!! Their polo shirts are so dang cheap!!! (funny thing is I'm heading there now to get a toy for my kids!! lol) ~Scott
Sorry, well actually no I'm not! For the exact same reasons David refused Chinese investors for Hubze I am very much opposed to Wal-Mart and so are a growing number of Americans concerned about Jobs and Manufacturing in the US.
I get why they are doing it so the pages can be more local focused. I have friends and family that work at a Wal-Mart in a small town and every store has different product based on location. So would be easier to let local people know about the sales and etc. But who will manage that? Will a local employee have to deal with it? That will never work. And the main page for Wal-Mart has over 9 million Likes. Will they be able to get people to Like local pages? I doubt it.. ~Scott
BOOOOOOOO HISSSSSSS!!!!
Bad. Very bad.
Well it doesn't really matter because the evil empire will do whatever they want. If my news fee or recent stories or subscriptions for whatever it's called now get's flooded with Wal-Mart because of their million locations I will just hide everything from them. I do my best to stay out of their stores and will do my best to hide from them on here too =)
Why would that be bad?
I really don't care
It will be easier to let them know that their cashiers are rude to the customers and more concerned about "break time" than service!
I doubt they would allow for comments! or even user posts. I would hate to be their social media manager...that's overkill
I think it's unnecessary for EVERY location to have a fan page. Maybe regions or states or something, but every location? Yeah....that's too much.
Actually, I think that will be a good thing if each store has its own fb fan page, but only if they leave up all comments customers make, not just the ones that go WalMart's way.
It will be easier to let them know that their cashiers are rude to the customers and more concerned about "break time" than service!
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