Aisle of Misfit Toys
Corrine Compton got an unexpected surprise Christmas morning.
The 7-year-old opened up her Polly Pocket toy plane set—purchased at a Sumter, South Carolina Wal-Mart—and found a prison shank inside.
Corrine’s parents took the toy back to Wal-Mart and demanded an explanation for how a blade wrapped in electrical tape got inside their daughter’s toy. They walked out of the store without a replacement toy, refund or satisfactory response from Wal-Mart.
And the Comptons aren’t the only unhappy Wal-Mart customers this holiday season. Daryl Hill bought an MP3 player for his 10-year-old daughter at a Sparta, Tennessee Wal-Mart that was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs about using drugs.
These may sound like isolated incidents, but they’re the types of stories that happen all too often at Wal-Mart stores. When Wal-Mart lowers its prices, it’s lowering the quality and safety of its products too.
Visit RecallWalMart.com, watch Corrine’s story, and tell Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott to put customers’ safety first:
Wal-mart’s commercials claim that “The more you save, the more Christmas you can give.” But mothers and fathers don’t want to give their children lead paint, toxic beads, pornography or prison shanks because the price is low.
As the country’s largest toy seller, Wal-Mart can force suppliers to make the tiniest changes to their products and production process. Wal-Mart’s pressure on companies like Mattel to shift production to countries with weaker labor and environmental standards is well documented.
Parents rely on stores like Wal-Mart to sell safe products for their children—but as Corrine Compton’s parents found out, they shouldn’t:
“We tell our kids on Halloween, ‘let us check candy before you eat it.’ So the same goes for toys - we have to check the toys now.”
With millions of toys recalled this holiday season, we’ve all seen the results of Wal-Mart’s poor quality standards. But stories like Corrine Compton’s and Daryl Hill’s happen every day - often only appearing on local news stations, if they are heard at all.
Tell Wal-Mart to stop sacrificing our children’s health for its bottom line. Visit RecallWalMart.com now:
Thank you, and happy holidays.
Posted by David Nassar, Executive Director on Thursday, January 03, 2008
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