Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 30, 2015 Share #1 Posted June 30, 2015 Just in time for July 4th, Walmart’s caught in an un-American lie By Lisa Fickenscher June 29, 2015 | 9:59pm Modal Trigger WalmartPhoto: AP America’s largest retailer was doing something very un-American. Walmart has been selling products online that claim to be made in the USA when in fact they are not. After it was threatened with a potential probe by the Federal Trade Commission, Walmart said that it has a problem with its website design. Truth in Advertising, a nonprofit that investigates deceptive marketing practices, fired off a letter to Walmart last week claiming that it found 100 items on the retailer’s website — including a dental whitening product, baby wipes and mattress pads — that were made outside of this country but carried nifty Made in the USA labels. Walmart sells 25,000 items with that tag — and it has been touting an American Jobs initiative for the past couple of years, whereby it pledges to increase its purchasing of American-made merchandise. TINA.org said it would ask the FTC to investigate the matter if Walmart did not acknowledge the problem and fix it soon. “Based on our initial internal review, we believe these errors are limited to a small percentage of items and we are confident in the overall integrity of the information on our site,” Walmart said in a statement. A Walmart spokesman said that, within a week, consumers will not find Made in the USA labels on its website, and that other labels such as Women’s Economic Empowerment and Sustainability Leaders are coming down as well. “We added badges to products on our site to help customers find what they were looking for,” said the spokesman. “Unfortunately, some Internet search engines won’t return an item with a badge in search results. We are working on a fix.” Source: http://nypost.com/2015/06/29/walmart-sold-us-made-products-that-were-actually-foreign/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share #2 Posted June 30, 2015 Good... Either they get their act together and stop trying to undercut real American businesses and American salaries, or let the FTC come after them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted June 30, 2015 Share #3 Posted June 30, 2015 Good... Either they get their act together and stop trying to undercut real American businesses and American salaries, or let the FTC come after them.Or they could continue to be cheap and stop labeling their products as American-made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted July 1, 2015 Or they could continue to be cheap and stop labeling their products as American-made. Well that's fine too, but don't try to portray something that isn't true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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