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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 29

    29 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 17 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there. Adam writes:
    So I'm at Wal Mart in Commerce City, CO looking for a gift for a friend and start rummaging through the T Shirt section not looking for anything in particular, just killing some time. Suddenly I notice this familiar looking skull peeking out at me. "Surely it can't be..." I think to myself. Oh, it is.... I grab it and pull it out; there it is in all its glory. It's like finding a piece of history. Nazi Wal Mart history.
    We keep posting these to show you how some businesses manipulate the by-the-books media. A fracas erupts, the company send out a public statement apologizing and pledging to change their ways, the press publishes it, everyone feels goods, and we turn to a clip of Scrappy the Jet-skiing squirrel. Guess what, the company doesn't always do what they said they were gonna do. — BEN POPKEN More »

    9:24 AM on Thu Jun 7 2007
    By Ben Popken
    5,007 views, 81 comments

    Latest by Trackback: Looks like Wal-Mart is not being forthright with consumers, again. As if customers would not notice if their usual dog more »

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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 28

    258weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 16 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there. Al writes:
    So I took my wife over to the Wal*mart store in Chelmsford, MA for some cheap, low-quality Chinese goods, and as we were walking out I spotted the now infamous 3rd division Totenkopf logo high atop the men's clothing department's shelves. I walked over to the wall, and it appears that while they actually took the shirts off the shelves, the logo itself is still being proudly displayed among the other non-nazi designs. Talk about missing the point!
    — BEN POPKEN More »

    5:19 PM on Thu May 31 2007
    By Ben Popken
    4,388 views, 45 comments

    Latest by Tristan921: This seems to be just the tip of the iceberg of Nazi marketing to youth. The most popular more »

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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 27

    27 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 15 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there. Don found some in Sterling, Washington: More »

    10:59 PM on Tue May 22 2007
    By Ben Popken
    1,561 views, 37 comments

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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 25

    22 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 13 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there. S.G.W. found some in Indianapolis, took a video, and writes: More »

    11:45 AM on Wed May 9 2007
    By Ben Popken
    1,256 views, 25 comments

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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 22

    22 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove shirts bearing Nazi iconography from its shelves, and 10 weeks after getting a letter from Congress demanding the shirts removal, they're still there. More »

    9:47 AM on Fri Apr 20 2007
    By Ben Popken
    53,002 views, 57 comments

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    Spinning Walmart: Astroturfing, Edelman, And Why Walmart's TVs Are Tuned To Fox News

    A new article in the New Yorker examines Walmart's complicated relationship with its PR company, Edelman, with whom readers of the Consumerist have become so well-aquainted. The reporter goes inside Walmart's "home office" in Bentonville, AR, where he meets Walmart's resident Edelman staff, notes that the TVs are all tuned to FOX News, and learns some interesting tidbits about the looms in which PR for Walmart is spun:
    The Edelman team assigned to Wal-Mart, I learned, is divided into three groups: "promote," "response," and "pressure." The Jobs and Opportunity Zones notion came from the promotions team. The response-team members—veterans of political campaigns—are supposed to quickly counter criticism in the press or on the Web. The pressure group works on opposition research, focussing on the unions and the press.
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    1:59 PM on Tue Mar 27 2007
    By Meg Marco
    4,661 views, 27 comments

    Latest by superbmtsub: I cant believe there are people still in this planet who trust in "The Fair and Balanced" reportings from Fox more »

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    Walmart Nazi Tshirt Watch: Week 15

    15 weeks after Walmart agreed to remove Nazi tshirts from its shelves, they're still there. More »
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    Walmart: No Comment After SuperCenter Snake Bites Seven Shoppers

    Walmart refuses to address the plight of Jason Page, whose hand is paralyzed after a bite from a 1.5 foot-long pygmy rattlesnake. Page is the seventh known victim to suffer a snake bite at a Walmart.
    Reaching down for a second pot, he said, he felt a sudden pain, and after lifting up his arm, discovered the rattler "still hanging on to my finger."
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    8:45 AM on Sat Feb 24 2007
    By Carey
    13,753 views, 39 comments

    Latest by BytheSea: @Blog Nazi: Injuries after "one day" in the hospital are: a limp pinkie Nu uh, rattler bites are no small thing. more »

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    Walmart Nazi Shirts In Chicago Tribune, Thanks To Our Readers

    Walmart's Nazi Tshirts are in the Chicago Tribune, and drawing the ire of members of Congress, thanks to the dogged flow sightings and pictures by Consumerist readers published on this site. More »

    1:01 PM on Fri Feb 9 2007
    By Ben Popken
    1,270 views, 12 comments