From ABC News:
Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll’s white counterpart at one store and possibly others.
A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel’s Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Theresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Theresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Theresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93. The dolls look identical aside from their color.
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Editors at Guanabee.com said the person responsible for the photo told the Web site that it was taken at a Louisiana Walmart store. The person did not return e-mails from ABCNews.com.
A Walmart spokeswoman, who could not verify the exact store shown in the photo, said that the price change on the Theresa doll was part of the chain’s efforts to clear shelf space for its new spring inventory.
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at 4:43 pm
So what? It’s a doll! A big deal is being made out of nothing important.
at 6:14 am
Big deal. They lowered the price of a product that wasn’t selling, in an attempt to move the product. Some of the articles on this site!
at 3:18 pm
Maybe they should have named the doll Michelle and not Theresa!!!!!!
at 6:42 am
LMFAO at what nelsonpt22 said xD
at 12:20 am
Holy s**t….128 comments on this! Now THAT’S some funny sh*t. Somethin’ ain’t sellin’, it goes on sale. Simple as that. Funny thing is that if the white ones were 3 bucks and the black ones were 6, this blog would THEN be about how “We have to pay DOUBLE for our Barbi dolls!” Seriously, get off the blogs and get active in your communities people……
at 8:02 pm
WELL THATS A GOOD THAING AINT IT??? LOL
at 3:22 pm
Mattel should sue the person who wrote this article. Clearly not BarbieTM dolls.
at 2:18 pm
I worked in retail, as a sale person, Cashiers, and Asst. manager, back in the early 70s in a toy store own by Jewish, by ran by Whites. If a items is not selling they will first be marked down and then but on clearance, because they are trying to get there money back, or least some of it.
I don’t see a problem with trying to get your money back, that’s just good business sense. The problem that I see is a very poor displayed of having both dolls being side by side. I think that the clearance items should be separated from the original items, that aren’t on sales. It appears that they are still comparing us to the Whites, by having this type of display, meaning we still doesn’t have what it take to complete, against them.
I also would like to say this is why a lots of our Black Businesses go out of business,caused they don’t have mark down or clearance, when they should. This is to give those Black Owners something to think about, and yes I am a Black Owner’s. We try to hold on to things that isn’t selling, just try it and see what will happen.
Ethel