Follow-up on the Nazi T-Shirts.

November 13, 2006 James Allen 5 comments

According to Bent Corner, Wal-Mart still hasn’t removed the Nazi shirts from their stores.

Yesterday afternoon I stopped at a Wal-Mart on my way home for work and found a stack of the same shirts still for sale in the men’s department. My wife also stopped at a different Wal-Mart on her way home from work yesterday. She too found a stack of these Nazi shirts still for sale.

In my opinion, quickly taking care of a problem involves actually taking care of the problem.

Instead of having someone from a PR firm contact bloggers, Wal-Mart should have concentrated on simply removing the shirts from their stores. They could have worried about contacting bloggers after their stores were free of Nazi clothing.

Marshall Manson claimed that because of the size of Wal-Mart, removing the shirts from all the stores might take a day or two. I don’t think so. Wal-Mart could have removed these shirts from every store in a matter of minutes if they actually wanted to. Would they be this lethargically slow if they found out they were selling child porn? I don’t think so.

I was at Wal-Mart a few hours ago but I didn’t think to look for them. Has anyone else seen them still in the store? Maybe Marty is right. There is no reason for it to have taken this long.

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Written by Thelma about 3 years ago.

This is why Wal-Mart continues to grow. People claim to be offended by the things that they do. but their power is your money that you willingly give them. What incentive does Wal-Mart have to change anything at all, especially the promotion of such open and blatant hate-mongering, if people continue to give them their busniness? Stop supporting Wal-Mart with your money, and then they will get the point that they need to change, this and all their other practices of biggotry, racism and greed at the cost of all those without a strong voice.
Written by Wayne Oldroyd about 3 years ago.

The SS deathhead shirts could have been quitely removed but the Bloggers had to be 1st on the spot with the news and now the items selling like hot cakes!!!! 98% of those in wallmart or kids or adults have no idea what the symbol was or that it was envolved in WW2
for the Death Camps , made in china id bet just like there directions
for toys and book case’s it was lost in translation, Yes remove them but come on there’s no evil plan to take over the world
Written by Dustin Weber about 3 years ago.

I agree Wayne, no one (including the buyer at Wal-Mart) knew the real meaning behind these shirts. Well, I should clarify that a bit… the original designer knew, since there is an obvious resemblance, but no one at Wal-Mart.

Anyways, someone (Bent Corner) noticed it and made it public. Wal-Mart apologized and is doing damage control by removing the shirts and reassuring the blogging world it is being taken care of. Sorta like putting out a small flame before it explodes (perhaps sensationalized into the mainstream media where it could hurt the company a lot more).

It doesn’t mean they have even a slight affiliation with “Nazi’s” or anything similar. It was an honest mistake. Even large corporations make those yunno.

By the way, I was in two Wal-Mart’s locally this weekend, both did NOT have the shirts… so it may be in the works elsewhere.

All the stuff about Wal-Mart being evil and plotting to take over the world is silly. Isn’t there a better cause in the world?
Written by Marty about 3 years ago.

Plotting to take over the world? Of course not. Dragging their feet taking them off shelves, so they don’t get stuck with them? Probably.
Written by Managing Anxiety about 4 weeks ago.

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