Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Off Shelves in Cranston

Patch ^ | April 23, 2013

[2ndDivisionVet]

The cookware giant has decided to temporarily stop selling pressure cookers at retail locations, including the Garden City store in Cranston.

If you're in the market for a new pressure cooker to whip up some stew or pulled pork, don't head to the Cranston Williams-Sonoma for the time being.

Williams-Sonoma, the specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware with more than 250 stores in the United States, has pulled pressure cookers from their shelves following the Boston Marathon bombing.

It was first reported that Williams-Sonoma pulled pressure cookers from shelves in stores in Massachusetts, but a call to the Cranston location in Garden City Center shows the company has issued a larger company directive.

Cranston store manager Kyle, who asked his last name not to be used, said pressure cookers were taken off the shelves via a company directive because it didn't seem appropriate to sell them in the wake of the marathon bombings....

[doc1019]

LOL!

[Parley Baer]

So now is Obama going to want anyone who purchases a pressure cooker to have a permit?

[BobL]

Gotta love the satire - looks so real.

[stuartcr]

Get real. If you need a pressure cooker go online to WS or go to Target. No one is taking cookware away from you

[jurroppi1]

I predict henceforth that image will be downloaded with impunity!

I know I did,

thanks

[erlayman]

Buy it online or get a cheaper brand if it is a matter of true survival. No company owes anyone any product.

[Ditter]

What about the garage sale loop hold? How do they plan to control that? snort)))))))

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mrs. 2ndDivisionVet has a great automatic electric pressure cooker that she uses at least once every week or so. That wasn’t my point. Williams-Sonoma must be run by PC idiots.

[cripplecreek]

That’s why I made it.

[stuartcr]

It’s their business to run as they please

[sarasmom]

How do I, or you, know if I am on a watch list?

BTW, I am in the market for a pressure cooker, since we are eating more meals at home, and buying ever cheaper cuts of meats.

I don't grill outside or broil inside, so cooking chicken or ribs by processing the meat through a pressure cooker first, makes the most of my infrequent meat buys.

Full disclosure, I am probably on some kind of government watch list.
I know how to plant, tend, harvest and preserve vegetables.
I can kill, skin, clean and cook several varieties of fish and small mammals.
I am a veteran of the USA DOD.
Oh and yes, I have also attended several TEA Party rallies.

Odd thing though, I have never shopped at a Williams-Sonoma store.
Isn't that one of those high priced, yuppie kitchen stores catering to people who don't know how to use cast iron skillets?

[Bernard Marx]

Beyond belief.

Not at all, the way things are going. Here in CA incandescent light bulbs have vanished from store shelves. You also have to show a driver's license and sign a waiver just to buy former over-the-counter drugs like Mucinex. They keep cans of spray paint locked in steel cages to keep taggers from stealing them.

I'm old enough to remember going with my Dad to the hardware store to buy cases of dynamite, caps and fuse in any quantity we needed -- no questions asked. We used them to quarry stone and blow up stumps on the farm. I had to get my Mom to sign at the drugstore on hydrochloric and sulphuric acid for my chemistry set though.

[longtermmemmory]

Julia Chiles was a SPY, she must have been working for GWBush!(/s)

[posterchild]

It is their choice and I will defend that choice but I will still call them pu**ies for it. (not puppies)

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Thanks for the great image. I’ll be sending it around to my pressure cooker friends. :)

[stuartcr]

Well if it makes you feel better then by all means, call them names

[publius911]

The cookware giant has decided to temporarily stop selling pressure cookers at retail locations, including the Garden City store in Cranston.

Let me take a wild guess here.Everyone in the world is presumed to know where Garden City and Cranston are.

Is it not obvious that Free Republic is an international forum?

[TigersEye]

A gesture to what a police state?

[RC one]

and gun powder.

[NonValueAdded]

FRiend, it is an empty gesture, a stupid gesture. It adds weight, however insignificant, to the theme that any object that is used in mayhem must be banned. Now, as you say in another post, if you want one, you can buy it online. I’ll add, at another store or perhaps a pressure cooker and gun show. Hence the emptiness. The problem is, it is putting the focus on the object and not the berk that is using that object for no good. It’s a mindset thing. Men are from Mars, liberals are from Uranus.