Posted on 09/25/2016 3:43:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Three Walmart workers in McDonough, Georgia refused to decorate a “thin blue line” cake for a police officer’s retirement party because they said it was racist.
A number of my Georgia readers alerted me to the story and on Saturday night I spoke directly with the police officer’s daughter. She asked that I not divulge her name and I’ve agreed to honor her request.
“I was so shocked,” she told me. “I didn’t know what to do or say or anything. I was trying not to lose my temper or make a scene.”
“The baker told me the blue line cake was racist”
— Police Officer's Daughter
For the record, Walmart has confessed that most of her allegations are true. I’ll have more on that a bit later in this column.
The police officer’s daughter went to the Walmart on Willow Drive on Sept. 22 to order a flag for her father’s retirement party. He was leaving the force after 25-years on the job.
She showed the bakers a photograph of the police officer’s flag - the black and white version of Old Glory with a blue line.
“One of the bakers told me the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” the police officer’s daughter told me.
As an alternative, she suggested a chocolate-frosted cake with a horizontal, frosted blue line.
But that design was also rejected by Walmart’s cake decorator.
“She said, ‘I don’t feel comfortable doing this,’” the cop’s daughter told me. “I asked her, ‘Is there something wrong with cops?’”
After being rejected for a third time, the 21-year-old told the bakers, “I’ll find another bakery, thank you.”
She was much more polite than I would’ve been, folks.
“I was disappointed,” she told me. “I go to Walmart all the time — at least once a week spend hundreds of dollars. I just wanted to make my dad a cake to show how much i appreciated him.”
A friend of the family posted an item about the incident on Facebook and it wasn’t long before the Walmart store manager called the police officer’s wife and daughter — and apologized.
“He said he was so sorry,” the daughter told me. “He offered to make the cake free of charge and he gave me a $50 gift card.”
A Walmart corporate spokesperson confirmed most of the story.
“Our goal is to always take care of customers,” the spokesperson told me. “But, sometimes we misstep.We’re glad we were able to connect with the family to apologize and make this right.”
Walmart did not say if one of their associates called the cake racist.
“I can confirm an associate made a mistake that has since been corrected for the customer,” the spokesperson told me.
So how did Walmart right their wrong? The answer to that question is going to curdle your Fruit Loops, folks.
The manager offered to make and decorate a new cake. But there was just one problem — the cake decorators refused to comply.
“So the manager told me that he would decorate it — but it looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”
I’ve attached photographs of Walmart’s handiwork — it’s absolutely embarrassing and unacceptable.
“I work in retail,” the officer’s daughter told me. “If I didn’t want to deal with a customer — and said ‘No’ — I would get fired.”
Unfortunately, her father’s retirement party is Sunday night - so there’s no time to go elsewhere.
“It irritates me that in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Walmart was looted and the cops were protecting them,” she said. “And you can’t make a cake for the people who are protecting you?”
Walmart needs to make this right and they can start by delivering a professionally decorated cake to the police officer’s family.
The three cake decorators need to be told: either decorate the cake or be fired.
Just because Walmart is the home of low prices, doesn’t mean they have to hire a bunch of low class, anti-cop bigots.
“But, sometimes we misstep.”
No! You didn’t misstep, your EMPLOYEES did! Why do those employees still have a job?!!!
The three cake decorators need to be told: either decorate the cake or be fired.
I’m so glad I live in Michigan. Next to every Wal*Mart there is a Meijers. Meijers kicks Wal*Marts ass every day and twice on sunday. The stores are generally cleaner than W*M and better stocked. Plus, there doesn’t seem to be as much of a “fringe element”, AKA “Walmartians” in Meijers. I’ll go to Meijers or go without.
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No. The three cake decorators need to be fired, as do all racist BlackLivesMatter thugs.
When we fail to confront we have given up and given in. I would have called for the manager confronted the employee and let the games begin.
As a very regular shopper of Walmart, and even if I wasn’t, this is outrageous. They should be fired immediately and if the manager delays at all, they should be fired as well. Walmart should have and should demonstrate absolute zero tolerance for this type of behavior by employess.
Except for shopping for Ammo, I don’t go to Walmart much where I live; there have been too many shootings there for me, one in parking lot killed a man; another guy was shot and limped into the store where they finished him off; and in yet another instance Thugs came into the store and grabbed a cashier, demanded she pay what she borrowed in the trailer park, and then grabbed by the hair and drug her out of the store kicking and screaming with the cash drawer. Curfews come and go there between dark, 10 pm, midnight, dark again, etc. Not safe to shop our local GhettoMart.
Discriminatory termination lawsuit?
What?? For THEIR discriminating and NOT doing their freaking job?! Are you serious?
There are more than just the idiots in the bakery involved in this story. If she is stupid enough "to go to Walmart all the time," she is not bright enough to be given the task of getting a cake decorated.
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Looks like the cop will take another 6 figures into retirement.
Good thing the customer found out before taking it home and eating it. I wouldn’t have served the manager’s cake, either.
Here’s to every person of non-African decent boycotts the store. Let the animals take it over and it closes.
Question from the jury room for the judge: "What is the total market value of WalMart?"
That counter clown would be looking for a new job if it worked for me.
Talk about desperately searching for something to be offended by...
This shows how far the BLM movement has invaded our society.
It’s not good for this nation.
[the cake decorators refused to comply.]
Fire them. Today.
Be damn unfortunate if cops have a flat-tire responding to Wal-mart.
The daughter could have saved some heartache by making it herself. It’s not rocket science and proved by the caliper of those bakers.
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