Walmart apologizes for racial slur on marketplace listing
Curated content can be great—but it can also wreak havoc on your
organization’s reputation.
Such is the lesson Walmart is learning after a after third-party vendor
posted an item for sale on the retailer’s marketplace, and used a racial
slur in the product’s listing.
The product in question was a wig cap whose description noted the color as
“n----- brown.”
This tweet captures much of the outrage on social media that followed:
This is WALMART'S RACIST DESCRIPT
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