Direct Global/Direct Co-ops

[DLBN] 1.5 M OCOOPA lithium-ion battery hand warmers sold at AMZN & WMT recalled after 1,000 reports of the devices overheating, resulting in hundreds of injuries & a death. Cheap products & dangerous.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/07/15m-heating-devices-sold-on-amazon-walmart-recalled-after-350-injuries-one-death.html

The show must go on. [AI image by AL]

[DLBN] Road rage fight in a Miami WMT parking lot ends with skull fracture and broken ribs after the accused threw the victim to the pavement. WMT is the most dangerous store in America to shop.

https://youtube.com/?si=SHe46n_qalQbCHsY

[DLBN] AMZN & WMT respond to customer searches for ‘Made in USA’ goods by hiding America-made products to intentionally promote foreign suppliers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2026/07/31/why-amazon-and-walmarts-ai-shopping-agents-are-rigged-against-made-in-usa/

[DLBN] Trump issued an overly-broad national security memo being used by DOJ to prosecute anti-capitalist, “anti-American” protesters as domestic terrorists facing 30 to 50 year prison sentences for wearing black outside an ICE detention center.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/minneapolis-protest-doj-ice-indictment-antifa-nspm-dhs/

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“Elon Musk knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers." Donald Trump.(1/19/25 pre-inauguration rally in Wash, DC) [AI image by Al]

[DLBN] Jeff Bezos says market swings don't reflect what's happening inside a business. “The stock price is an output, an ultimate output that you actually have very little control over." “We do not want to focus on the stock price." No mention of paying workers well and keeping them feeling valued.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/jeff-bezos-says-amazon-stock-144604683.html

[DLBN] Police in Jacksonville Beach, FL. have arrested a theft ring of 5 people who have been stealing a total of $22,000 in products from several HD stores since last April. Home Depot alone loses "billions of dollars a year" to organized retail crime.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2026/07/21/jacksonville-beach-retail-theft-ring-busted-after-22k-in-home-depot-thefts-jbpd/

[DLBN] WMT is going nuclear to support its growing store plans in Illinois. WMT inked a long-term power purchase agreement with Constellation to buy electricity from the company’s Dresden “Clean Energy Center” in IL. Walmart will buy 176 MW of power, in two 15-year terms starting in 2029 and 2030. Clean energy?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/walmart-goes-nuclear-first-its-kind-power-deal-retail-giant