[jayturley]

So they are surveilling people they know are on the drug, and they are seeing those people buy less food. Wow. The surveillance bothers me a lot more than the fact Walmart might experience a slight downturn in the bottom line. Here's a non-paywalled recap of the story: https://futurism.com/neoscope/walmart-ozempic-food

[jfim]

It's just data analysis, the same way that other retailers do it for product recommendations. The only difference with more anodyne correlations (eg. people who buy cereal are also more likely to buy milk) is that they're using anonymized pharmacy data.

[influx]

How is it anonymized if they are correlating it with how much food they are buying? Even if it is anonymized, I'm shocked healthcare data is shared?