woops!

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/06/news/companies/walmart_dvd/index.htm

Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop.

nvm.

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Wal-Mart 'heartsick' over DVD grouping
Reports: No. 1 retailer apologizes for racial links on Web site, spoofs poor holiday sales in song.
January 6, 2006: 8:47 AM EST


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Wal-Mart is ringing in the new year with a pair of snafus.

The retail giant apologized Thursday after its Web site directed buyers of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Planet of the Apes" DVDs to consider DVDs with African American themes, according to a report published Friday in The Washington Post.

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According to the newspaper, Wal-Mart said in a statement it was "heartsick" over the racially offensive grouping and that its retail Web site was linking "seemingly random combinations of titles."

The company said it would shut down its cross-selling system overnight and said there is no evidence the inappropriate product referrals were intentional, according to the Post. It is investigating the source of the problem.

Wal-Mart's apology came less than a week after the company played a spoof song about its disappointing holiday season on a recorded company phone message.

The company played a remake of the Christmas classic "Up on the Housetop" during its weekly recorded sales update Saturday, Reuters reported. By Thursday, the song was no longer on Wal-Mart's recording.

The song, which joked about the retailer's holiday sales performance and included a reference to the infamous limited laptop computers it sold and which caused customer brawls, risked angering investors, public relations experts told Reuters.

"People get kind of emotional about their money," Christopher Atkins, head of the global corporate practice at public relations firm Ogilvy, told Reuters.

He said there are times when humor is an effective tool for companies, but when things are not going well, it can appear as if managers are trivializing major problems.

-- from staff and wire reports

Jesse and Al will make a few million off of this.  All of the professional victims will be wailing and gnashing their teeth over the indignity they have suffered. Sams choice products will have a .0003 cent price increase to compensate.  Just another day in America.

money.cnn.com/2006/01/06/news/companies/walmart_dvd/index.htm

Quoted: Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop.

Walmart is a great place to shop.

you know, wally world has been sucking up to blacks big time this past year...they're the sole sponsors of the tavis smiley show (black talking head) and they've been pimping black history month coming up big time, offering big scholarships and all that, and it all don't mean shit cuz some idiots got their backs up over a fucking error in a program...i expect jesse will be shrieking for a protest on cnn at noon today.

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Walmart is a bad place to shop.

Jesus, what a complete non-story. WalMart should have just ignored these assinine complaints.

Quoted: Quoted: Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop. Walmart is a great place to shop.

Agreed.
They've got nearly everything I need and the prices are good/great.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop. Walmart is a great place to shop. Walmart is a bad place to shop.

Let me guess:  They've "banned" Christianity there too?

Quoted: Walmart is a great place to shop for cheap ammo and chinese crap.

Fixed it.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop. Walmart is a great place to shop. Walmart is a bad place to shop. Let me guess:  They've "banned" Christianity there too?

Nope.  Just don't like the place.

Could have been worse, they could have linked to Planet of Martin Luther King Kong...
"I have a dream, you damn dirty apes!"

No justice, no White Christmas.

Quoted: Quoted: Walmart is a great place to shop for cheap ammo and chinese crap. Fixed it.

Tide, paper towels, fishing hooks, WWB, Federal 22s, eggs, milk, romane letuce, other vegies, cleaning products, saline solution, renu, and most other things I regularly shop at Walmart for...  None of which are made in China.

+1
Good place to shop, just look at what you buy

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Walmart is a great place to shop for cheap ammo and chinese crap. Fixed it. Tide, paper towels, fishing hooks, WWB, Federal 22s, eggs, milk, romane letuce, other vegies, cleaning products, saline solution, renu, and most other things I regularly shop at Walmart for...  None of which are made in China.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Don't care.  Walmart is a bad place to shop. Walmart is a great place to shop. Walmart is a bad place to shop. Let me guess:  They've "banned" Christianity there too?

hahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahhaha

 

I use to hate WM.  Found out the left hates them.  So now, I love WM.

Quoted: Jesus, what a complete non-story. WalMart should have just ignored these assinine complaints.

+1.

It's wrong but that is funny.

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Yes.  That is very funny, isn't it?

I don't see the issue?

It said the system was also referring buyers of movies such as "Home Alone" and "Power Puff Girls" to African American-themed DVDs.