My local Costco prices everything at 88 cents because it’s in a heavily Chinese neighborhood and the number 8 is considered lucky to them.
It’s not always a dog whistle. But in this particular case it might be. 🤷🏼♂️
Not a dog whistle
this is walking outside and yelling for your dog that’s snarling at the little brown kids
$14.88 is a very suspicious price for meat and a ‘crazy 88 cent sale’ is basically confirmation.
If it isn’t ibtentional then someone setting prices needs to learn how to avoid dogwhistles. But I’m just going to assume the worst because it usually is.
Don’t forget the $1.48 items. They couldn’t be more overt without throwing a swastica or Emu’s RoMaN sAlUtE
yeah, but it’s bOnELeSs tenderloin … aren’t you sick of all that bone in tenderloin you keep getting?!
Lol, I missed that in all them pixels.
Fucking fascists and their number obsessions. I don’t get it.
Edit: before anyone replies, I do know what the numbers mean. I mean the obsession of using them to display their facism.
They used to have a need to speak in codes and hide their beliefs under fear of death. We need to go back to that time.
Symbology, magic, supernatural. Looking at crosses, swastikas, an (unopened) book that says “Bible” on the front. Stickers on trucks, flags everywhere, songs they play at rallies when they never actually understand what the lyrics mean.
More proof that they’re all about feels, what a symbol elicits for them, without having to engage in thought. Symbols distill that feel into something compact and thoughtless. Even if it’s just a few numbers. Don’t think. Conform.
Their ideology is embedded in the numbers. It’s also how African American gangs communicate concepts.
So much of American internet culture is rooted in imperialist lore and Nazi beliefs, like the Pepe frog, KEK, and the monkey NFTs
Isn’t it like a dog whistle? It can only be understood by those that know. Of course that’s not the case anymore but I wouldn’t have known until it was pointed out to me some time ago. And it’s not just numbers either.
It’s pseudo-intellectualism. It makes them feel smart and special.
That guy is a Nazi
I normally only steal from chain grocery stores, but I’ll make an exception for his store if I’m ever in the area
Have seen this one here in New Zealand too.
Was a company selling house insulation for $14.88/m², and the owner was a similarly reprehensible individual:
The $14.88 sale is free advertising. Plus the guy can say it’s just the woke trying to cancel him when he gets his Fox News interview.
I mean to some extent maybe, but what is the alternative? Not call a Nazi out for being a Nazi?
I already don’t shop there and I tell people not to shop there. Bigger question to me is why is a subreddit that is still cosplaying as progressive, allowing ads for a Nazi? Or anywhere else. That’s the bigger fish. Pressure people to stop allowing Nazis to advertise.
I’m saying that’s why he did it. It’s guaranteed to be talked about and he can pretend to not know what he did. There’s nothing wrong with calling it out and telling people not to shop there. It’s actually a good thing.
I agree, but I do think he legit did it as both a dog whistle to his fellow Nazis and to some extent bc he sees controversy for his store as a good thing.
Most of the people who would choose not to shop there probably already stopped shopping there after the Jan. 6th stuff. Rather than give him too much attention, at this point I think it’s better to start going after people who continue to associate him.
He’s made his preferences pretty clear. If you want to be a Nazi, nothing I can do to stop you other than continue to not shop at your store. With your preferences so clearly stated though, I do have to wonder why other businesses that I rely on are continuing to associate with you and help you advertise.
Is the local paper that includes flyers for Rouses saying that they’re ok with Nazis as long as they pay? What about the TV and radio stations that continue to run ads? Reddit loves to pretend they’re still a liberal space despite all the evidence to the contrary. Here’s more evidence, so why are you allowing a Nazi to promote himself using your platform?
How much for a gay wedding cake?
Can anyone bring me into the loop? I don’t know any of the significance here.
oh shit, thank you
When I first heard it, i was like is it some conspiracy about the Americas being discovered by someone else other than Columbus haha
That and H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 means HH which means heil hitler.
No seriously, it is that dumb.
14/88 is a hate symbol used by Nazis: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488
Please don’t link to the ADL. They are a sham organization that openly supports genocide.
I hope these people burn in hell.
Heh ?
I would keep an eye on this asshole. However, this seems like the first “crazy 8” sale.
If I am remembering right, .88 is a manager sale.
Those price ‘codes’ are only applicable at Costco, and even then, it’s more of a ‘secret menu’ type of thing based mostly on hearsay and rumors.
I fully understand that. Some times people also like to connect things that are not there.
I looked at their last 4 flyers, 5 if you count the spanish version as well. This was the only one that stood out.
There was no heavy use of 14 or 88 in any of the other ones. Even looked at the front page of each and I believe 88 showed up once.
I’m not saying that the owner is a good guy. I would bet a lot to say he is topself shit. I’m not saying he isn’t racist. Loving Trump gives that a heavy tilt. I’m saying nothing points to nazi flyer. If the next flyer is 14 and 88, then I’m on board. I just don’t want to be Qanon but blue version.
Oh yeah to clarify I’m not defending the owner or anything, I was just trying to say the price codes at costco are probably not related to whatever is going on here.
I doubt the millionaire co-owner of a major chain of grocery stores is involved in setting the price of whole boneless beef tenderloin.
Nbd for me, I shop at Conseco’s but Rouse’s does make really good Italian sausage.
Seems like two very noticable strikes against a shitty business to me. Whoever thought this was a good idea made the entire company look like they also believe it was a good idea.
If nobody is willing to clear up this whole misunderstanding, then people might understandably assume that other businesses associated with them also believe it was a good idea.
not weird at all. Just a business advertising. From memory mods don’t have a say on what gets advertised in their communities and when it is local community it makes sense the advert is there.
From memory mods don’t have a say on what gets advertised in their communities
Lolwut. Mods can delete a post because it hurt their feelings. How do they not have a say what’s advertised in their communities?
How do they not have a say what’s advertised in their communities?
because mods are free labour, and ads pay money to reddit inc
because an actual advert on reddit is not an regular post
I’m not clear from the tweet that the ads are Reddit-generated ads, it seems like someone is posting a photo of the newspaper ad insert.
This isn’t the ad this is a different user who posted about this ad in their newspaper.
Their weekly ad was just posted today.
“A local subreddit runs advertisements” implied to me that it was either an individual user posting it or the subreddit mods themselves. Otherwise, specifying that the ads were run in that specific sub seemed unnecessary. Could be wrong, but the OP itself doesn’t seem like a Reddit ad either (single image rather than a webpage or something)
This image is just somebody on the subreddit pointing out the 1488 reference.
The weekly ads posted to the sub are by a different “user”, but I do find it odd that the post asking about the 1488 flyer seems to be permadownvoted, and got brigaded by people claiming the OP was insane for even asking about it. I believe one person claimed OP was “schizophrenic.”
Bc during a time when there’s a guy with a swastika tattoo in the white house, you would clearly have to be “insane” to question if a Jan 6er might feel emboldened enough to run a local ad that served as a dog whistle.
Please read the comments. The significance becomes apparent after you educate yourself :)
