Hey, Wal-Mart, screw you and your special magazine rack covers!

I'll go ahead and say it, our little family (my partner, myself and kid) are have very strong views on certain things. One of them, pornography. Yep, I'm "one of those." You can rest assured that as long as I'm bitching about it, I'm doing something about it. I am the kind of person that doesn't want to be forced to see trashy, nasty, degrading images that are also HARMFUL. I'm all for not looking if I don't like most things, but having this type of thing forced on us everytime we're at the checkout line is absolutely unacceptable. Wal-Mart, I'm talking to you! AGAIN! Wal-Mart, the family based, blah blah blah forcing us to view this trash. Let me go ahead and remind you about the man that was charged for... ahem... masturbating in the toy aisle of wal-mart with one of the nasty magazines they sell. Yep, he took it to the toy aisle, whipped it out and went to town. He also wiped his... leftovers (peter tracks) on a toy sword! What?! Whoa. That's when Wal-Mart finally decided they would change things and start listening to our pleas. Well, they said they were changing things, but this e-mail I have between myself and Wal-Mart kinda just shows that was yet another lie! 

So, this is not a simple rant. It's actually the copied and pasted version of the response from Wal-Mart when I e-mailed them back in September. Unfortunately, I can't find my first email to them to save my life. To clear any confusion, it was an e-mail reminding wal-mart of the guy masturbating to one of their dirty mags. I also gave them a pretty big chunk of my feelings toward this whole issue. I told them that I'm tired of being forced to view this mess, I'm tired of women being made out to look like disposable objects, I'm tired of our innocent kids being forced to see it and getting really warped ideas of how we're supposed to treat women and even more warped ideas on what sex actually is! Ahem, COSMO, that was so directed toward you. You're next on my list. 

So to make a long story short, I joined in with the thousands of others begging Wal-Mart to stop putting dirty magazines in checkout lines where we're forced to see it. I don't want my kids seeing that or seeing "how to give the best blow job" Yea, SCREW YOU COSMO! I mean if others are going to involve themselves in that stuff, fine, but why should those of us who don't be forced to as well? At the very least, that trash should be covered up where it's not readable or viewable besides the title. 

Oh, whoops! Wal-Mart says they've already developed that "policy". I wrote them back letting them know that apparently the magazine rack cover policy does not apply to Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and many, many other states. I wasn't surprised that I got no reply back! I did think that maybe it just hasn't came into effect over here. Wrong! Wal-Mart hasn't done anything about the issue. Here's the reply from Wal-Mart to me back in September when I expressed my concerns...

"> -----Original Message-----
> From: cstreply@wal-mart.com
> Sent: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:04:35 -0500
> To: kendra30752@inbox.com Subject: Response from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Ref #000000030351042)

"Thank you for your message.

 Dear Kendra,

 Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns regarding the magazines we offer in our stores. Serving the one hundred million customers who shop in our stores each week can be quite challenging, yet it is something we have been committed to do for more than 40 years. In our efforts to strike a reasonable balance for our customers who want to purchase magazines and our customers who are uncomfortable seeing specific magazine covers at the checkout lanes, we have implemented special magazine rack covers at ourcheckout displays.

  The left and right sides of the magazine -- where story headlines appear -- are covered, while leaving the magazine title and the page center visible for easy identification. These covers are only on the display racks at our checkout lanes. The magazine itself is not altered; it is simply placed behind a special rack cover. This decision was made after testing several different concepts earlier in the year, and our hope is that this action will strike a reasonable balance for customers on both sides of the issue. We always appreciate hearing from you and other customers.

 Sincerely,
Walmart Customer Care"

 So, Wal-Mart, about those "special rack covers," one question. Where the hell are they?