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Inappropriate T-shirts Still on Some Shelves

Friday 09th of February 2007 05:26:04 PM

In November of last year, superstore giant Wal-Mart was asked to remove printed T-shirts that had a skull and crossbones design on them that bore resemblance to a forgotten Nazi symbol. According to some consumer web sites, the printed T-shirts are still being sold in some locations in the United States.

Even though, according to Wal-mart spokesman, David Tovar, the bar codes used to scan the shirts at the register have been removed from the system, the tees are still being sold using the bar codes on items that are similarly priced.

State Representative, Jan Schakowsky, of Illinois, USA, recently sent a letter to Wal-Mart Chief Executive H. Lee Scott Jr. asking for more to be done on the matter.

“Everyone agreed that these shirts have to go, including Wal-Mart; it's just that they didn't do anything about it. Either at the time they really weren't serious, or their capacity to do that is limited, which makes one wonder about recalls of potentially dangerous products,” Schakowsky said. "As a Jew, and as a consumer, and as it happens, a member of Congress, I'm hoping that Wal-Mart resolves this quickly. There's a lot of organizations and constituencies out there that will get on their case if they don't. And we'll give them a little bit of time, but not much."

When Wal-Mart found out about the printed T-shirts, they tried to have them removed from as many stores as possible as quickly as possible, but it seems that there are shirts still on sale in some of their stores. “We're working as quickly as we can to get them off. We expect to reach 100 percent completion of this task in a few days,” said Tovar.

Being aware of what the company allows to be sold in its stores is now becoming an issue. Ben Popken, who is an editor of one of the consumer watch groups, Consumerist.com, “The skull-and-crossbones is popular, but designers need to be aware of the history of the iconography that they're appropriating ad hoc.”

(c)Thomas Eggar, www.sxc.hu