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Florida Walmart’s 9/11 Coke Display Sparks Outrage
KFOR ^ | SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 | NADIA JUDITH ENCHASSI

Posted on 09/09/2016 11:04:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

People are furious after pictures of a Florida Walmart's 9/11-themed Coke display began to circulate on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

Twitter user Shawn Richard tweeted a picture of the display, which presented Coke Zero in place of Ground Zero and spurred thousands of angry retweets about the beverage company's marketing ploy.

“We stopped and stared at it, like oh my God,” Richard said, according to BuzzFeed News. “Nobody seemed to be noticing it. It wasn’t very crowded, and I got the feeling that it had just been assembled. So, we took some pics and went on our way.”

Orlando Weekly reports the display has been taken down and Walmart initially approved the design.

In less than two days, the post has more than 2,500 retweets and 4,100 likes.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: 911anniversary; badtaste; cokezero; florida; groundzero; outrage; walmart
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To: Paradox

“I might not call it phony [outrage], but I would call it misplaced.”

Thank you.

I can’t see images with this browser. Just text. And I apologize to the Coca Cola company.

FRegards ....


41 posted on 09/09/2016 11:28:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama's High Crime: giving away Internet on Sept 30. Please check profile.)
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To: nickcarraway

Nice, but I don’t wanna be the poor sob stacking that crap.


42 posted on 09/09/2016 11:28:52 AM PDT by W. (Trump's here to kick ass or chew bubblegum, and he's all out of gum!)
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To: nickcarraway

This is no different from the coke displays that look like American flags or soldiers. Only Muslim’s and democrats would be offended by this.


43 posted on 09/09/2016 11:28:54 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: nickcarraway

Next up - using Easter to sell nails & wood.


44 posted on 09/09/2016 11:29:05 AM PDT by gdani
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To: chris37

Not outraged, but who the heck wants to take any to mess up the display?


45 posted on 09/09/2016 11:29:32 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

46 posted on 09/09/2016 11:30:15 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: nickcarraway

Allah Akbar! ... J/k


47 posted on 09/09/2016 11:31:20 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FU Klintoons)
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To: Paradox

You may call it anything you want. But I pity anyone (this is not addressed to you specifically) who cannot understand the extreme bad taste in using the worst terrorist attack in the USA to sell a product. If Walmart had been sincere, the sign over the display could have been strung near the entranceway without a tacky reconstruction of the Twin Towers with coke cases. The mind boggles!

It must be up there with the opening number of Springtime for Hitler - only not funny.


48 posted on 09/09/2016 11:31:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
You might want to rethink that statement.

I find it in extremely poor taste to attach the horror of 9/11 and the murder of 3000 people to a sales display. It is no different than the displays we see during the Super Bowl, World Series or other “ big game” events.

The banner is fine. I would have no issue with the banner hanging in front of the store. Attaching it to a sales display in hopes people will buy a product is repugnant.

Next year will we see 9/11 Blowout Sales just as we do on President's Day?

9/11. My outrage has never lessened.

49 posted on 09/09/2016 11:32:43 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: nickcarraway

Outrage unwarranted. People are too easily outraged at things or situations that aren’t outrageous.


50 posted on 09/09/2016 11:33:38 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: miss marmelstein
You may call it anything you want. But I pity anyone (this is not addressed to you specifically) who cannot understand the extreme bad taste in using the worst terrorist attack in the USA to sell a product.

So basically, you are saying that no commercial entity can use any imagery of 911 in commemoration? Help me out here, I am trying to think of such use of imagery that I would find offensive, I am not saying its not possible, maybe I am just not seeing it here.

51 posted on 09/09/2016 11:34:52 AM PDT by Paradox ("Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy.")
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To: Girlene

They might have had good intentions, and probably didn’t have bad intentions.

I can see school kids building models or maps of Pearl Harbor a decade after.....yikes....that would be ME.


52 posted on 09/09/2016 11:37:37 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Paradox

Commercial entities can do anything they want regarding 9/11. But they should be prepared for genuine hurt feelings in seeing a searing event used to sell a product and the accompanying blowback.


53 posted on 09/09/2016 11:38:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Boomer

I think it was done with good intentions but if I was the store manager I probably would not have done this becaus it’s more of a somber day, not celebratory.


54 posted on 09/09/2016 11:40:49 AM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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To: chris37

I’ll go a step further and even say it is a nice, well intended gesture. Cheesy, for sure, but well intended.


55 posted on 09/09/2016 11:41:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: nickcarraway
Outraged that Walmart is displaying patriotism?

Shaking my head in disbelief.

56 posted on 09/09/2016 11:42:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I joined FR in the aftermath of 9/11 because of the genuine shock and outrage and hurt expressed by members here. It seems we’ve come full circle in which people now just see 9/11 as another lousy day in America and, hey, if you can sell something, why not?

And I’m not a muslim or a democrat.


57 posted on 09/09/2016 11:43:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: nickcarraway

The display would be alright, except for the Rollback $3.33 stuck right between what is suppose to be the twin towers.


58 posted on 09/09/2016 11:44:55 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010 and Mom 4-20-26 12-8-2012)
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To: chris37

Agreed.


59 posted on 09/09/2016 11:45:39 AM PDT by jrestrepo (See you all in Galt's gulch)
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To: joesbucks

60 posted on 09/09/2016 11:47:13 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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