Foolishness in Wal-Mart... no, not the fashion of the shoppers, I mean this:
A Walmart store announcement ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragile trust among minority communities.A male voice came over the public-address system Sunday evening at a store in Washington Township, in southern New Jersey, and calmly announced: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now."
Shoppers in the store at the time said a manager quickly got on the public-address system and apologized for the remark. And while it was unclear whether a rogue patron or an employee was responsible for the comment, many customers expressed their anger to store management.
That's not cute, but the Wal-Mart quickly responded:
"We are just as appalled by this incident as our customers," the company said in a statement. "Whoever did this is just wrong and acted in an inappropriate manner. Clearly, this is completely unacceptable to us and to our customers."
If nobody comes clean in 48 hours, hold everybody's (who was working that shift) paycheck!
Just kidding... a little bit.
1 comment:
It may not have been an employee. WalMart uses Avaya Partner phone systems. Highly programmable, most just assign a PAGE function on one of the buttons.
And YouTube is loaded with pranks similar but not the same as this.
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