Posted on 05/24/2022 12:46:16 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
UPDATE10:53 AM PT -- 5/4 -- Walmart has officially pulled the ice cream. 7:25 AM PT -- 5/4 -- Walmart has apologized for the ice cream. In a statement to Fox LA, a Walmart rep says, "Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence. However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate."
Welp, here's the latest entry to the Tone-Deaf Marketing Hall of Fame (there really should be one by now) ... Walmart's Juneteenth Ice Cream is MOA -- melting on arrival -- with critics, as one might expect.
As soon as the retail giant started putting the "Celebration Edition" on its freezer shelves ... the Twitter mob sounded off, calling the idea "garbage," and worse. The pints contain swirled red velvet and cheesecake ice cream flavors ... and included the message, "Share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope."
Yes, all positives, but also ... exploitive for capitalism's sake??? That's the tone of the backlash against Walmart ahead of the new federal holiday -- June 19th will mark the 2nd year it's recognized -- which commemorates the day the last enslaved Americans got the news President Lincoln had abolished slavery
Walmart is also launching a similar "celebration edition" for Pride Month, which is also coming up in June. That flavor is white chocolate ice cream with brownies and cherries.
Depending on your viewpoint ... that's either equal opportunity, or equally offensive.
For years, whenever Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays came along, now President’s Day you’d see sales ads featuring silly cartoon charicatures of George holding the axe, and honest Abe. Car dealers are especially notorious for this sales tactic. They’re corny but no one ever really complains about it.
The Walmart angle? Just cashing in. They should just make the ice cream dollar green.
“None of my black friends are inconsolable crybabies.”
one of my friends, Rip Kefauver
anyway he got his entertainment from trolling the lib whitey crowd.
and he was really good too.
Anyway I was assigned to train him. I let him know I admired his trolling, but that we were both smart enough to laugh at the loonies.
He would still try to give me crap sometimes
I would go to his parties and although I knew he wanted the token white guy there, I met a lot of interesting people that I never would have otherwise.
I really miss talking politics with him
Ironically, Juneteenth is Fathers Day.
When does Juneteenff become a compulsory national holiday, in which all are required to self-flaggelate and beg forgiveness?
Fried Chicken flavor is the newest craze.
I would disagree. Companies never went wrong with just selling their widgets and leaving politics out of the equation entirely.
Just produce a quality product or service that others want to pay you for. That's it.
Red Velvet and cheese cake ice cream sound delicious! I wonder, will the homo celebration ice cream taste like anus? I don’t know and don’t want to know what anus tastes like but I’m sure the homos do so is this ice cream aimed at their tastes?
They should just donate all profits to BLM.
I find their Pride Month ice cream particularly disturbing but, this being a family forum, I’ll just leave it at that.
BTW, will black people ever comprehend the insult of Wally World pandering to them, then pandering tot he sexual degenerate class?
I’m holding out for “chicken and waffle” flavor.
Is it mandatory? You going?
Just curious...
That's the problem right there.
Companies are scared sh*tless of a few nasty tweets. And if you go to any of these Twitter threads, there's often just as many supportive tweets as negative ones.
Forget about Twitter! The Twitter mob is not real life. Most of them aren't even real people.
“only if Columbus day stays Columbus day.”
Hasn’t it already been changed to Indigenous Peoples Day or similar?
Why?
Excellent point.
Noticed the “reject” ice cream goods all next to each other.
Many Blacks are not on board with or screaming loons about radical Gay issues.
All the negative reaction could have been avoided with the purchase of insurance from Southern Poverty Law Center and Black Lives Matter.
The skids could have been greased for, probably, less than five million dollars.
Virtue signaling, disconnect and ice cream?
This sounds like a job for Pelosi!
no good deed goes unpunished.
let them eat vanilla.
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