Frescos change color lol 🤣 Pushkin was black also

Walmart's dynamic pricing transition turns the checkout aisle into a financial trap — algorithmic shelf tags silently inflate prices while you walk to the register

Walmart is replacing printed price stickers with Electronic Shelving Labels across thousands of stores. Connected to centralized corporate networks, these digital displays allow algorithms to alter prices instantly. While marketed to save employee labor, this mechanism permanently disconnects physical groceries from any fixed, immutable cost.

This hits consumers directly at the checkout choke point. Because the system updates continuously, the network silently increases prices during the brief walk from aisle to register. A manager openly dismissed one customer's discrepancy as routine "dynamic pricing." Shoppers must absorb these stealth markups, unable to prove the original price.

The trajectory pushes retail toward unregulated surge pricing. As Walmart deploys this infrastructure to 2,300 locations by 2026, algorithms can hike costs during peak demand. Despite recent corporate pledges denying personalized pricing, the network enables synchronized price gouging across entire communities without leaving physical evidence of the original shelf cost.

This transition destroys the fundamental reliability of commerce. Without statutory mandates locking an item's cost to the moment a customer retrieves it, corporations will continuously extract unearned revenue through checkout friction. Read the Senate investigation into grocery surge pricing, and photograph digital price tags before placing items in your cart today.

Sources

A Letter From Our CEO - Walmart Corporate

https://corporate.walmart.com/about/everyday-affordability/letter-from-our-ceo

Walmart's September 2026 corporate memo defending the implementation of digital shelf labels while officially denying the use of personal data for individualized pricing.

Walmart rules out personalized pricing as digital shelf labels spread

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/walmart-rules-out-personalized-pricing-as-digital-shelf-labels-spread-092826.html

ConsumerAffairs reporting on Walmart's corporate response to public backlash over the expansion of digital price tags and the potential for checkout discrepancies.

Warren, Casey Investigate Kroger’s Use of Digital Price Tags

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-casey-investigate-krogers-use-of-digital-price-tags-warn-of-grocery-giants-surge-pricing-causing-price-gouging-and-hurting-consumers

Official U.S. Senate press release announcing an investigation into major grocery chains utilizing electronic shelving labels to conduct dynamic surge pricing.

Democrats accuse Kroger of using digital price tags to gouge consumers

https://www.supermarketnews.com/legislation-regulatory-news/democrats-accuse-kroger-of-using-digital-price-tags-to-gouge-consumers

Supermarket News analysis detailing the deployment of electronic shelving labels to thousands of locations and the legislative concern over algorithmic price gouging.

US Senators Warn Walmart And Kroger May Raise Grocery Prices Without Warning With Digital Price Tags

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/democratic-senators-warn-walmart-kroger-may-suddenly-raise-grocery-prices-without-warning-digital-1726332

International Business Times coverage of the congressional pushback against corporate dynamic pricing models that allow sudden checkout cost increases without consumer warning.

She calls him over in Swahili, compliments his bike, asks if it’s new and starts playfully negotiating the price with him. The confidence, the fluent Swahili, and that unexpected Southern accent clearly caught him off guard, and by the end he’s smiling and blushing.

https://youtu.be/MlCHSiekS38

^click the link above for the full interview^

Say their names!

Dude needs to act respectful toward women. He should have been thrown out the arena due to his disgusting self-centered thug behavior

I’m in Chicago, honestly in CC so far seems like not too many are fond of my characters and I mostly just get compliments on my skills when before when I mainly drew white characters, I got a ton about character design. If I’m working on my iPad the vibes are just weird for some reason. I’m not going to look deeper into it because I’m sure I know why by now.

Something I realized a couple years ago was how black women looked so beautiful on average to be inspired with art almost daily by them. There’s been a lot of race swaps and I was genuinely growing more and more upset about the hair being almost an afterthought. With guys, just not a lot of depictions I’m cool with.

I was the weird proper kid back at my black school back home, watched anime, had white friends, etc., never really connected with the community since I was an outcast. Then I realized I was trans and bi, thought to myself for a while that I wouldn’t even be welcomed.

Then I grew the fuck up and realized I can make the shit I want to see and I can literally make what I want. If their acceptance is performative even in “left” spaces then I don’t need to put my skills towards building them up more, I can make shit to bring together the “weird” and different sides of the community who’re like me together and I’m pretty sure plenty of other black people would have a secret enjoyment of it if it’s infamous or some shit like most weird online stuff with communities.

So as I study Film Directing and Acting, I’m gonna build up my own comic publishing company. Hopefully that one day amounts to a black-owned animation studio with staff since there ain’t enough black people in anime for me to want to push for that

Emmett Till was abducted and lynched on August 28, 1955, at the age of 14 in Mississippi.

Young Emmett was lynched after being accused of whistling at, or flirting with Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who owned a grocery store in Money, Mississippi.

Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till: “The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us." Referring to the wave of civil rights protests, Mamie Till-Mobley says, "When people saw what happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. People became vocal who had never vocalized before."

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on September 1955, declared young Emmett’s death a lynching:
"one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the twentieth century." In a Mother's Day sermon delivered on 12 May 1963, Dr. King personified the movement “...the crying voice of a little Emmett C. Till, screaming from the rushing waters in Mississippi” to remind listeners of the ongoing struggle for freedom.

And then. Damn. 71 years later, in Mississippi Nolan Wells, aged 18 was lynched on July 4, 2026.

A massive release of nearly 300 pages of Snapchat records from Wells' account and subsequent group chats from digital forensic logs showed that in the hours and days after the party, several of Wells' friends exchanged messages noting that Wells was actively attempting to court a young white woman he was seen with on the island.

On 21 September 2026, a Jackson County, Mississippi grand jury unanimously determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges against anyone.

Christine Wells-Wonsley, Nolan Wells' mother: “My son's life does not matter to those who hold positions that are supposed to serve and protect the public."

What is lynching?
Murder carried out by a group outside of the legal court system.
Often involves hanging, though it can include other forms of extreme violence and torture. Used to punish an alleged crime, enforce social control, or terrorize a specific group.

Dawnelle Blake writing for The Post Athens: “Concurrent with this case is a plethora of Black people found hanging from trees across the country... This contestation is not born from mere hysteria; these questions exist within a longstanding history of racial terror, state racism and negligence.”

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the Wells family argue that a case for foul play—and potentially a racially motivated attack—must remain open due to several unresolved inconsistencies, arguing that the case points to a modern form of lynching or racial violence based upon Mississippi’s historical legacy of racial violence. Advocates argue that a group of white individuals returning from an isolated barrier island without their lone Black companion demands a level of scrutiny that federal hate crime and anti-lynching laws (such as the Emmett Till Antilynching Act) were designed to address.

I listened to so much hold music and talked to so many people and robots to solve a really simple problem with customer service. When I got to the last person and they said "Thank you for your patience. My name is Lakeisha." I instantly knew that I was going to finally solve a problem that's been going on with a non-mentioned phone company. She solved it in about 3 minutes. And she's as mad as me just about everything! Thank you! May pillow be cold always.