Smiley faces ditched all ’round.

Wal-Mart has began to phase out its smiley face on walmart.com in order to become more Trendy. Perhaps they’re grumpy because many say they got caught red-handed sponsoring bloggers who (true or not) weren’t believed to be real people (I call them bluppets.) The word “flog” is now becoming a household phrase for the practice. That could make anyone frown.

Related: Last Year Kentucky dumped the smiley face license plate (praise the Lord). I donated Pay-Per-Click and organic marketing consultation to sharetheroadky.com (site did its duty, now off-line) to help get their awesome new plate on our two cars (but the ones who really did the work was Allison Smith listen to interview here from last Summer - to get double the number of applications needed and now there are over 3500 plates on the road. Those of us with it never have to see that stupid smiley face on our cars again, and hopefully more bike and running trails will open.

Hard not to smile over that one.

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