Anonymous Patron writes “New York Daily News Says The giant store chain won’t stock Jon Stewart’s big best-seller, “America (The Book),” because one page shows nine naked bodies – with the heads of the Supreme Court justices pasted on them.
“We felt a majority of our customers may not be comfortable with the image in our stores,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Karen Burk said yesterday.
“But we still wanted to give them the option of buying it from Walmart.com,” she added.”
Makes perfect sense to me
I don’t think Wal-Mart shoppers have ever seen naked bodies before, and I’d hate those nine to be their “first time.”
Makes me wonder…
A while back Playboy magazine did a spread (pardon the pun) on “The Girls Of Wal-Mart.” I figure this is becoming a serial type of thing along with “The Girls of Starbucks” and the like.
Anyway, I kinda wonder what happened to these women. They posed in various stages of undress wearing Wal-Mart (or at least Wal-Mart-esque) uniforms. I’d be 99.6% sure that they were fired, but I can see a couple legal issues there that might have held it up. But then again, what’s legality to the world’s largest retail chain utilizing non-unionized workers, television propaganda, and union busting techniques that’d do Henry Ford proud.
And before someone mods this down as flamebait, lemme explain that I live in a town where we already have one Wal-Mart superstore and they wanna build another. Every citizen the area of proposed construction is trying to block the action, the state cited both city council and chamber of commerce for illegal activities surrounding their frenzy to get the second one built, and suddenly we’re seeing a bunch of commercials on local TV telling us how nicely Wal-Mart treats their workers and how wonderful they are for communities. The fact is, I’m probably a little more sensitive about the issue than most.
Hrmm, as for Playboy, I think it’s high time we saw “The Girls of Public Libraries” on the news stands. Fetishists would be all over that issue… in more ways that one.
wal-mart is consistent at least
I doubt that daily show viewers are going to be doing much shopping there anyway.
“Wal-mart: stifling dissent and humor for 50 years.”
Shocked over book sales
I am shocked that people would actually buy that book.
But I can understand why Walmart would not want that trash in their stores. According to the article, they also ban other items of a sexual/gratuitous nature (so I cannot buy that 50 cent cd I so desparately want?). This certainly cannot be called discrimination against that horrible daily show.
***off topic: I find it funny that many people view walmart as the Empire in Star Wars. I personally do not think its that evil.