It's interesting how many people drive miles out of their way just to avoid shopping at Wal-Mart. Wal-Fart is a symbol of despair and Bushism. (Why is it that whenever one thinks of the year 2004, they think of Wal-Mart? It has to be the scary logo featuring white block letters on a blue background that resembles that of Bush's creepy campaign signs.)
Recently, after a customer blamed Special Kitty cat food purchased at Wal-Mart for her cats getting sick, a TV news crew investigated. The news team went to a Wal-Mart in Clanton, Alabama, and found oodles of recalled cat food still on the shelves.
When you try to buy a recalled product, the UPC label is supposed to catch it at checkout. But at this Wal-Mart it was discovered that somebody had stuck phony UPC labels over the real UPC labels so the product wouldn't be caught when a customer tried to buy it. Thus, numerous shoppers probably purchased the tainted cat food without even realizing it.
Isn't there something seriously criminal about putting bogus UPC labels on products to avoid not being able to sell it due to a recall? People have gotten the chair for much less.
Some of the brands that were recalled in the recent pet food scandal were Wal-Mart store brands. Wal-Mart does have a hand in the manufacturing of their brands. Store executives often meet with the factory owners and go to the factories, so it's not as if Wal-Fart is just buying a product without knowing what goes into it. Furthermore, when Wal-Mart did pull poisoned pet food from its shelves, it wasn't until months after they were first notified of the problem.
The professional trolls are probably gonna come here and conjure up every excuse in the book to try to shift blame away from the retail chain that they worship, but the bottom line is that somebody tampered with the UPC labels just so they could Make Money selling a recalled item.
(Source: http://www.itchmo.com/more-recalled-menu-foods-pet-food-found-in-wal-mart-2463)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Wal-Mart still carries tainted cat food
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Corrections of fact:
ReplyDelete1.) No one has been sent to the electric chair in this country for less than tampering with a UPC.
2.) Store managers don't visit factories. Someone from corporate headquarters probably does, but not the schleps that actually run the individual stores.
Corrections of fact:
ReplyDelete1.) I guarantee you they have
2.) Where did he say the managers visited the factories?? He said 'executives' which could mean the CEO, the Vice President, the regional heads...he did not say the managers of indiviual stores