There Goes the VuduHood
Besides being a dumb business idea in its own right. WalMart's decision to acquire online video distributor Vudu creates for the swallowed-up company one less fan. Me.
Not that anybody cares. But I have a hunch my "me" is going to be multiplied millions of times.
See, WalMart is a fundamentally despicable business. Despite their last year or two spent burnishing their image, they are viewed pretty broadly as being unsympathetic at best and hostile at worst to their own employees. This is to say nothing of the huge number of jobs they displace, local businesses they bankrupt, traditions they trample, and channels of distribution they destroy.
Vudu is now a division of this awful enterprise. As a result, they are no longer on my bookmark list and I won't patronize them again. As I said, nobody will probably care about me. But if there are a few million like me out there, things could get dicey. Let's hope.
