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Walmart under fire for selling black Barbies at half price of white dolls
Telegraph ^
| 03/11/10
| Heidi Blake
Posted on 03/12/2010 4:11:48 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
If the items were moving they wouldn’t be slashing the price. This has absolutely nothing to do with racism, but is being made into yet another issue.
To: TigerLikesRooster
It isn’t Wal-Mart that’s “de-valuing” the black dolls—it’s the consumer who doesn’t buy them at the same rate as the white dolls.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:15:26 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(A gentleman in the drawing room; a rapist in the boudoir.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Ahhh, my first guess would be that they are not selling as fast as the other ones so Wal-mart cut the price to move the product.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:16:00 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(Airborne, the only way to get to work in the morning.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Northside Center for Child Development should check out E-bay. Bidders for all kinds of products must be forcing non-PC pricing and bidding.
The "Northside Center for Child Development" is more like the "NorthBroadside Center for attack on free trade and commerce"
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:17:29 AM PST
by
C210N
(A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sell them at any price..give them away free...I don’t want one.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:17:31 AM PST
by
hal ogen
To: beckysueb
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:18:12 AM PST
by
J40000
To: beckysueb
They’d bit*h if their ice cream was cold.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:18:15 AM PST
by
cizinec
To: TigerLikesRooster
Where is the Asian Barbie? Native American Barbie? Indian Barbie? Transsexual Barbie?
Just saying...
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:18:47 AM PST
by
TSgt
(RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:19:34 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
It isn’t Wal-Mart that’s “de-valuing” the black dolls—it’s the consumer who doesn’t buy them at the same rate as the white dolls. Either way they can cry "R A C I S M!!!"...
If they determine their own self worth by the value of a Barbie doll then they will never, ever, get out of their situation.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:20:59 AM PST
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What do they charge for the Transsexual Barbies?
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:21:41 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Put a big butt... baby bump and a wookie head on it and sell it as a “michelle my bell” doll.
LLS
To: TigerLikesRooster
Maybe they should check the produce section to see if this store is selling watermelons at a deep discount...give me a break.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:22:53 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: cizinec
LOL, first time I’ve heard that. Thanks!
To: TigerLikesRooster
Why do I have to pay twice as much to by my white daughter a white Barbie?
To: TigerLikesRooster
Does anybody really think anybody at WalMart actully knew the color of the doll’s skin when they lowered the price of this particular item? A certain SKU was not moving, so they cut the price to clear them out. The process is, for all intents and purposes, automatic.
One doll is not selling as well as the other. This is not really surprising. There are always imbalances like this in the retail market. In the larger scheme of things, the manufacturer will surely correct this problem by producing fewer of the lower-selling model.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:24:19 AM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I live in rural WV, my county was 99.8% white as of the last census. There is only about 5 black families in the entire county of 22,000. Yet, the local Wal-Mart always puts out a large collection of black Santa Claus and Nativity Scenes which always remain unsold and are still sitting in the clearance bin a month after Christmas for 75% off. I imagine this barbie deal is similar. I think when it comes to things like this, people want dolls that “look like them”. If you went to a 90% black area, you would probably find just the opposite, the black dolls at full price and the white dolls on clearance.
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:24:51 AM PST
by
apillar
To: TigerLikesRooster
Either color,they still look like trailer trash!
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posted on
03/12/2010 4:25:10 AM PST
by
cavador
(Wash your Hands-Cover that sneeze!It helps stop the H1N1 Virus)
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