SOMEBODY FINALLY PAYS ATTENTION…
Months after the presence of Nazi regalia at Wal-Mart was brought to light, someone is finally paying attention. According to the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) sent a letter to Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott.
She wants to know what’s taken so freakin’ long.
Schakowsky (D-Ill.) asked company officials to tell Congress what steps they are taking to remove the remaining shirts that display the Nazi Totenkopf–the “death head” emblem worn by soldiers in Adolf Hitler’s personal guard–from store shelves. Twenty-one other lawmakers from both parties also signed the letter.
“Everyone agreed that these shirts have to go, including Wal-Mart; it’s just that they didn’t do anything about it,” Schakowsky said. “Either at the time they really weren’t serious, or their capacity to do that is limited, which makes one wonder about recalls of potentially dangerous products.”
Blogger Rick Rottman of BentCorner was first to recognize the T-shirt’s skull-and-crossbones design as the infamous Nazi emblem, and posted his discovery online in November. At the time, Wal-Mart responded quickly to the public outcry, promising to ban the sale of the shirts and remove them from stores.
Despite the corporate order, it appears the shirts were never removed from at least three dozen of Wal-Mart’s 3,300 U.S. stores, according to Consumerist.com, which has been tracking discoveries of the shirts.
Three dozen? Feck, we’ve probably got more than that in Ohio alone. As near as I’ve ever been able to figure out is that Wal-Mart blocked the bar code so that no one could actually buy the shirt and then just relied on customers to attempt to purchase a shirt (probably bloggers like me wanting a scalp) to get them off the shelf.
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