Despite growing complaints on Twitter, Walmart has yet to remove a section for “fat girl costumes” on its website.
The plus-size Halloween costume section was first pointed out by Kristyn Washburn who tweeted the corporation with her complaint on Tuesday.
“Your comments and suggestions are important to us and help make Walmart even better,” @Walmartreplied on Twitter shortly thereafter.
The “fat girl costumes” section isn’t available through Walmart.com’s navigation, but it’s easily found through Google or by going toWalmart.com/c/kp/fat-girl-costumes.
Thus far, Walmart hasn’t released any kind of statement. If and when that happens, I’ll be sure to update this post.
Update: It appears that Walmart removed the costumes from that section around 11 a.m. Monday, but the URL still worked and displayed a message: “We found 0 items for the Fat Girl Costumes page.”
Update 2: By 12:35 p.m. the page redirected to the plus size costumes section, although the “fat girl costumes” title still appears in Google.
A Walmart spokesman told Buzzfeed that the page “never should have been on [their] site” and as soon as they found out they worked quickly to get it removed.
Sourced from Orlando Sentinel
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