Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Interesting!
Wal-Mart Unit Hears Gay Wedding Bellsacross the pond, anyway...
LONDON, Dec. 6 - Asda, Wal-Mart's British subsidiary, has introduced a line of wedding cards and "commitment rings" this week - just in time for the country's legalization of gay civil partnerships.
A Wal-Mart subsidiary in Britain is selling wedding cards and matching rings for same-sex couples, who can soon enter into civil unions there.
"Wedding day wishes, Mrs. & Mrs.," reads a pink-toned greeting card. A blue card decorated with two top hats says, "Congratulations, Mr. & Mr." The company will also sell a line of matching gold rings with diamond insets starting at £60 each ($104).
Critics of Wal-Mart, however, accused the company of hypocrisy, contrasting its marketing of gay wedding cards in Britain with its stricter controls in the United States. Wal-Mart has pulled some mainstream magazines from its shelves and refuses to carry some popular books because of their content, among them "America (The Book)" by Jon Stewart and "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" by George Carlin.
"They want to be all things to all people anywhere but in the United States," said Tracy Sefl, research director for Wal-Mart Watch, an advocacy group based in Washington. "In the United States, they have a conservative, right-leaning business model."
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Kudos to Walmart for getting it right abroad. Now, if they can only import some of their practices abroad back to the US ...
Hmmmm. This is a tricky one. Maybe the reason that Walmart is conservative and right-leaning here is because the majority of their capital base / Walmart shoppers are our fellow countrymen who are often conservative and right-leaning?
As far as I know, there aren't any Wal-Marts in left-leaning NYC and I don't remember seeing many (if any) in the midwest's biggest Blue State's biggest Blue City, Chicago.
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Hmmmm. This is a tricky one. Maybe the reason that Walmart is conservative and right-leaning here is because the majority of their capital base / Walmart shoppers are our fellow countrymen who are often conservative and right-leaning?
As far as I know, there aren't any Wal-Marts in left-leaning NYC and I don't remember seeing many (if any) in the midwest's biggest Blue State's biggest Blue City, Chicago.
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