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The Blog for Saturday, December 03, 2005

It's A Walmart Thing

    Really, now, how could a Black man legitimately have so much money:
    Wal-Mart has apologized to a black man who was accused of trying to pass a bad check as he was buying thousands of dollars in holiday gift cards for his company's employees.

    Employees of a Wal-Mart Supercenter called deputies last week to apprehend Reginald Pitts after he handed over a $13,600 check to pay for 520 gift cards that were to be given to employees at GAF Materials Corp., a roofing materials manufacturer where Pitts is a human resources manager.

    The company, which had $1.6 billion in revenue last year, had been spending about $50,000 a year on Wal-Mart gift cards and never had a problem when it sent another employee -- a white, female administrator who according to The St. Petersburg Times was on vacation that day -- to pick them up.

    "I keep going over and over the incident in my mind," Pitts told The St. Petersburg Times. "I cannot come up with any possible reason why I was treated like this except that I am black."
    "Wal-Mart apologizes to black buyer". See also "Wal-Mart Accused Of Racism" and "An Ugly Incident At Wal-Mart" ("GAF, which usually buys $50,000 in gift cards every year, understandably took its business to Target.")

    And do we really want to call this a mere "goof" as the Miami Herald does? "Wal-Mart goof draws apology"

6:59 AM

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