{"id":19122,"date":"2026-10-18T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:12:43","slug":"walmart-knows-what-you-can-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/walmart-knows-what-you-can-afford\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Knows What You Can Afford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The privacy policy is very disturbing, and their lack of morality in prices and weights is equally so. I would never install the Sam&#8217;s Club or Walmart apps on my phone, and I set my phone to airplane mode when getting out of the car before putting it in my pocket (only not in airplane mode for music in the car and WiFi is off before leaving the house). But you have to wonder what other ways they can actually track you. And if you&#8217;re using a smart chip ATM or credit card, you get a new credit card number per purchase though it does give your name, but after your items were scanned. We hardly ever shop at a Walmart and haven&#8217;t noticed any price changes for the couple things we buy, but our stores do already have the digital price tags. I&#8217;d say go elsewhere, but Kroger&#8217;s seems to be doing the same things, with other grocery stores following soon. Consequently, if you want deals online, look at things and don&#8217;t buy them going back later. If you&#8217;re a picky buyer, they seem to pop up deals to complete a sale so their games can work in your favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walmart Knows What You Can Afford\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHmord8K0Bo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy policy is very disturbing, and their lack of morality in prices and weights is equally so. I would never install the Sam&#8217;s Club or Walmart apps on my phone, and I set my phone to airplane mode when getting out of the car before putting it in my pocket (only not in airplane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19125,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}