Wal-Mart has once again demonstrated its true talent of earning really really bad PR. They just seem to thrive at it. And when a family called to get a Birthday cake made with their son's name on it, they once again stepped up. What is so bad about making a Birthday cake? Well if the child's name happens to be Adolf Hitler and his family happens to be holocaust deniers, it is, at the very least, bad PR, and we think pretty offensive to boot. What makes it worse is that other stores in the area had the good sense to say no to the family and that Wal-Mart has made this particular cake three years running.
And we can't forget that this isn't Wal-Mart's first run in with the Nazi issue. There was the tee shirt that Wal-Mart sold with a Nazi logo on it, which they subsequently failed to pull from shelves. There was an ad they bankrolled which went after a community group who did not want Wal-Mart to build in their town by using Nazi imagery. There was the book they sold, called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion which "recounts" as fact a plot by Jewish citizens to take over the world. It has been widely discredited as a fraud but was nonetheless used by Nazi propagandists. Wal-Mart's description of the book apparently did not indicate that it was, unambiguously a made up, antisemitic book.
The story is, deservedly, getting a lot of play. Most are simply bemused all around. Here's what Keith Olberman had to say last night:
Posted by Taylor - December 18, 2008 10:14 AM - Hard to Believe
Thats how the chinees treat their people like ****! people dont realize that when you buy wallmart products you are supporting chinees communist anything made in china is made cheap a couple of years ago they sent toys that where made in china that had lead paint on them! they where pulled off the shelf for being unsafe (good) everyone knows that anythhing made in china is cheap cheap cheap! i advise every american to boycott wallmart! DO'NT BUT WALLMART!
Posted by C.STONE - December 18, 2008 02:46 PM
Why the Critical Anti Walmart Bashing?While I don't like Adolph Hitler and what he stood for
and what he did as a human being, I don't see why Walmart is being bashed for putting a name on the cake.Granted the naming of ones child Adolph Hitler Campbell is rediculous, So is taking this story and blowing it out of proportion Rediculous.
Posted by Christopher Burger - December 23, 2008 04:00 PM
first off c stone you need to learn how to spell and second attack the companies that have their products made there not walmart.
Posted by lololl - December 27, 2008 04:41 PM
China is still poisoning our children. And it ain't just at Walmart. Mattel ordered 9 million toys for happy meals that were all contaminated. Target, Toys R Us, everyone that buys from China invites trouble. Remember to check your Christmas toys for lead this year. Just because they aren't on a recall list, doesn't mean they're safe. We, consumers are the last line of defence between our kids and contamination.
Posted by Doug - December 30, 2008 10:17 AM
its companys like walmart that force other companys to move to china for cheap labor so they can sell cheap enough to walmart and other companys like walmart
Posted by daisey - February 12, 2009 09:08 PM