Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says(bloomberg.com) |
Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says(bloomberg.com) |
This implies they're looking at how people on GLP-1 analogs are behaving relative to the general population....but how do they know who is on the drugs?
Well that’s just dark.
It's death himself.
Sorry for the caps but its deserved.
Dehydrated potatoes aren't graded. Read on for gross information.
I recently had the pleasure of doing HVAC/controls for potato/onion storages in Washington state.
Some storages are so gross I couldn't believe it was legal. Dead and living animals/rodents and nests etc. Mold and bacteria, rancid water pools, truly disgusting. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the videos I took. Some of the climacell water tanks (some the size of pools) hadnt been cleaned in years and had so many dead frogs and whatnot they were literally bubbling cesspools. And had been running that 'water' over the climacell pads to then be blown all over the storage, products, and people working in them.
And that wasn't the bad part.
The bad part was seeing piles of rotted and disintegrating potatoes go to dehydration machines to become pringles, dehydrated mashed potatoes, etc. They don't throw away the piles that go bad. They let them sit and stew until they've a full load and truck em out.
The trucks would literally have black horrible smelling slime spilling out all sides of the trailer, the weighing station was beyond disgusting.
Sure, heat will kill the bacteria, mold, fungi etc, and they will all be bleached- but once you've seen it, it's life changing. I shop mostly at farmers markets now for my veggies/fruits. After seeing potato and onion storages, processing plants and whatnot, the things foos companies can legally do is fucking frightening. I used to love Pringles.
If I could invest in a 20 year short in the fast/junk food companies, I would easily do so.
> Customers taking weight-loss drugs “tend to spend more with us overall” even as they buy less food, Rainey told CNBC.
With profit being the deciding factor it’s anyone’s guess what the people who are in charge of these companies will do to avoid bankruptcy.
I had to struggle a bit, but I have been able to wean off my kid from these foods and started making a lot of them at home.
My next target is to get a cold press machine and make the oils used for cooking at home too.
https://badgut.org/information-centre/health-nutrition/ultra...
pop and fruit drinks
sweetened yogurt
sweet or savoury packaged snacks (e.g., cookies)
candies and cake mixes
mass-produced packaged breads and buns
margarines and spreads
breakfast cereals
cereal and energy bars
energy drinks
instant soups, sauces, and noodles
poultry and fish nuggets, hot dogs
many ready-to-heat products: pre-prepared pies, pasta, and pizza dishes1. Health insurance caps the annual price to a few thousand dollars, which is worth the money for most people for the health and social advantages
2. Wealthy suburban families shop at Wal-Mart quite a lot
Edit: I meant off-label, not without a prescription. Same treatment by insurance.
Instead of seeing it as "Oh, noes, people are buying less junk food" they could see it as an opportunity to sell customers on more upscale goods with the cost savings. Instead of junk filled with soy and corn filler they can now buy smaller portions but with genuine ingredients without any fillers.
Take it as an opportunity to upsell a healthier lifestyle with tastier ingredients.
Anyone here taking Ozempic? Care to share your experience?
That said...pre-diabetic symptoms (genetic predisposition included) gone based on blood sugar readings. Lost a life-changing amount of weight over several months (i.e. it's not a 'loose 20 lbs in a week' weight loss drug unless you're using it in an very unhealthy way). Subjectively, cravings heavily reduced. Doc says blood work going in the right direction. So I can say cautiously it's a net win.
Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology.
Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?
> Why would it be surprising or worrisome
...Are you serious? An unstoppable megacorp that continues to horizontally expand across a number of markets using some of the most invasive possible surveillance and tracking methods to correlate tons of tons of personal behavioral data of hundreds of millions of normal citizens, and you can't find the slightest thing worrisome about it?
Take a step back: Do you actually believe this? Really? Really? It just reads like it’s fake.
The data is simply not believable. It is designed to get headlines and focus on Ozempic to get people to buy it.
This is propaganda. Planted and designed by pharm industry.
There is a booming black market for bootleg Chinese Semaglutide (and Tirzepatide, and Retatrutide, and etc)
Wegovy is not new, it was approved by the FDA for weight loss in 2021. And Ozempic was used off label for weight loss for many years before then.
So Ozempic is approved for use by the obese for weight loss.
You can (and should) always pay cash anyway. Then they know what is sold, but not to whom.
I read a recent article that said it cost $1,000/mo. So doubtful this would be a good strategy to save money.
They don't have to know anything about the specific person to correlate data they likely already have in their POS system.
Can’t? Really?
Maaaybe it’s against some law or privacy policy or mandatory annual training.
But do you honestly believe companies follow laws and policies if they think they can get away with not?
And even if you can ignore that corporations are regularly -publicly- wrist-slapped for failings in those areas and still believe they are virtuous, privacy-respecting, law-abiding entities (rofl) … are you ready to argue that no executive or other employee ever, (knowingly or unknowingly) uses data to run a calculation or check a theory against published policy?
The only thing that surprises me about the above scenarios is there’s a human alive who would believe their improbabl3a let alone, as “can’t” would imply, impossible.
I think HIPAA is the sort of thing where if you hear about it then it's taken seriously, but the overwhelming number of violations are just ignored and you never hear about them. I'd like to be wrong but unfortunately that's the information I've been fed by people more knowledgeable than me.