Christmas sweater with Santa and cocaine forces Walmart to apologize
(CNN Business)Walmart is saying sorry for making available a Christmas sweater with an apparent drug reference.
The sweater featured an image of Santa Claus behind a table with three white lines that look similar to cocaine lines. Below the image is the phrase "Let it snow." The Global News, a Canadian news organization, first reported the apology.
"These sweaters, sold by a third-party seller on Walmart.ca, do not represent Walmart's values and have no place on our website," Walmart said in a statement on Saturday. "We have removed these products from our marketplace. We apologize for any unintended offence this may have caused."
Walmart (WMT) declined to comment further on Sunday.
The freaking moron who didn’t catch this massive blunder probably pulls down six figures.
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BoSoxGal wrote:
The freaking moron who didn’t catch this massive blunder probably pulls down six figures.
Don't be too hard on morons, BSG: if Walmart give you a few hundred products to screen (it is, allegedly, a third party vendor who uses their site) you'd probably look at this and say great, another #%^*( ^% ugly sweater, someone will buy it. And move on to the next item. I'm pretty sure I would.
The moral is: if you have a reputation you want to uphold, sell your own shit not someone else's. There's probably $1 per sweater in it for Walmart.
