loss leaders
Hardly.
Normies don't tend to perform OS installs from slipstreamed update media.
Do you know what the signal bar on a phone actually represents?
Thoughts and prayers. It will even lie about the technology in use (e.g. it may display "5G" while connected to a "4G LTE" cell if that cell supports 5G EN-DC, regardless of if the feature is actually in use).
My friend, most base stations got fiber backhaul before 5G even existed. We are well beyond that problem.
In fact, it is not uncommon in 2025 to have fiber fronthaul from the remote radio (at the mast) back to the "cloud" where the actual base station is virtualized and/or software-defined (at the data center).
The usable signal issue is a whole other complex can of electromagnetic worms and in contemporary times is a side effect of how 5G NR is sort of "bolted on" to 4G LTE. It is not dissimilar to the growing pains that mixed 3G/4G networks had.
They have the #1 (USAF), #2 (US Army Aviation), #4 (US Navy), and #7 (USMC) largest air forces in the world, plus nukes. What do you expect Billy Bob and his AR-15 to accomplish?
logistics
This. You want to really have an impact? Bypass the US long-haul, rail, and shipping networks. Send it all through the coasts.
FDIC insurance means that if the market completely crashes and your credit union shuts down, the Federal Reserve prints new money to replace your deposits, up to like $250,000.00.
This is not correct. The FDIC is self-funded through risk-based insurance premiums paid by the banks.
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/deposit-insurance-fund
But why is that? Is this one of those tar sands vs sweet crude situations
Over a dozen states have so-called "cage free" laws now, with some states like Colorado only recently having them go into effect as of January 2025.
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Yes, given that this is Walmart (GV = "Great Value") I would assume the supply side prices are fixed. These are also not the "cage free" eggs that many states now require (several of which only began doing so in January 2025).
Same store, the retail price for a dozen large non-organic cage-free brown eggs is a few pennies higher than a dozen large white Eggland's Best (the latter usually being at least 2x the cost of the former). Those cage-free mandates are driving the supply of battery-cage eggs up (and thus the cost down, relatively speaking).
Given that Walmart runs its curbside/delivery department at a loss, they've shied away from running merchandise as loss leaders.