TURNERSVILLE, NJ (WPIX) – People shopping in a South Jersey Wal-Mart over the weekend were shocked to hear an announcement that apparently ordered “all black people” to leave the Turnersville store.
The racist message — delivered over the store’s public-address system shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday — was made by a male who calmly announced, “Attention Wal-Mart customers. All black people leave the store now.”
Witnesses say both customers and store employees were stunned by the highly offensive announcement. As a result, Washington Township police, along with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, are investigating the incident as a possible bias crime. In addition, Wal-Mart officials said they are reviewing security tapes in order to track down the person responsible for the remarks. Customers shopping in the store at the time say managers immediately issued an apology following the announcement.
In a statement to PIX News, Wal-Mart corporate spokeswoman Ashley Hardie, said the incident was “unacceptable.” “We’re as appalled by this as anyone. Whoever did this is wrong and acted in an inappropriate manner,” she said. “We are currently reviewing our systems to prevent this from happening in the future.”
In other Wal-Mart news- Wal-Mart fires long term employee with inoperable brain tumor for medical marijuana use.
To add insult to injury, Walmart is now challenging Casias’ eligibility for unemployment. Simply outrageous. This is the thanks he gets for showing up to work and doing his job for the last five years, despite being stricken with a life-threatening illness. “I gave them everything,” Casias told a local news outlet.
I’m sure this is about insurance premiums, duh.
Walmart has not an ethical or moral bone in their body.
They are driven by a simple formula:
Find out what people want.
Find out how much they are willing to pay for it.
Then sell sell sell.
And put the screws to your suppliers for ever lower prices without regard to their profits, passing most of the savings on to customers but keeping enough for Walmart to stay rich.
So… If black dolls are cheaper, it’s either because Walmart gets them cheaper, or the price needs to be lower to sell them as determined by Walmart’s not-even-close, no-kidding, best-in-industry sales monitoring and pricing system.
No racism, but cold equations.
I googled baby alive on Amazon and found this page. If I was Latino, I’d be really pissed.
http://amazon.com/Baby-Alive-Learns-Potty-Assortment/dp/B00160LGSI/ref=cl_tr_dp
The number one result was Baby Alive doll, Caucasian for $150.
http://amazon.com/Hasbro-Baby-Alive-Doll-Caucasian/dp/B000HT17XS
#8
What flavor is the Kool-aid are you drinking?
So because some customer or jerk employee did something offensive, blacks are boycotting the store?
How childishly moronic. Are they really of the opinion that WalMart somehow condoned this announcemen, even after the manager apologized within minutes? Or that they should have kept the intercoms under lock and key because some jackass might grab one and say something stupid? Really? Or are they looking for a payout?
And the jackass seems to have won, because blacks are obeying his order!
@#10 & #12: You’d laugh your ass off if the same were said to white people? Yeah, that’s what white people always say in response to stuff like this happening; you make up a hypothetical situation where the same happens to you and claim you wouldn’t care, but you’re never actually in that position so how do you know? And sorry, but I can’t imagine a black kid doing this.
Oh, and I’m not black.
This shows that it’s all about money and profits to chains like Malmart. They only want to hire employees that’ll cost them the least. So they’re will to disregard bad attitudes and wreckless behavior. Apologizing for the remark? They should be apologizing for their hiring policy. “Sorry folks, we mainly employ low-lifes, cause it saves us a bundle.”
And it’s not just Malmart. Lately, when I visit Target. I have to think about getting screwed by the “kid” at the checkout. Because apparently a lot of them don’t know how to count money. But their mistakes always seem to net them a small profit. So are they really short-changing on purpose? And just pretending to be stupid about it? This has happened to me twice, already. And with different cashiers. Generally the girls are more honest. But what’s Target thinking, hiring these idiots?
“possible bias crime”
Our society is f^&cked.