Walmart pulls Christmas sweater showing Santa with lines of cocaine

Christmas time is a season in which everybody wants to enjoy. Some identifies with the time decorating houses with Christmas ornaments. However others prefer wearing clothes related to the season.

Walmart wanted to please everybody’s preferences by pulling Christmas sweaters on its website. The problem is that those sweaters twist the good theme of Christmas by showing inappropiate images and messages.

One of those sweaters shows Santa apparently doing lines of cocaine with the message “Let it snow”.

The product’s description on the Walmart Canada website said: “We all know how snow works.

“It’s white, powdery and the best snow comes straight from South America. That’s bad news for jolly old St Nick, who lives far away in the North Pole.

“That’s why Santa really likes to savour the moment when he get his hands on some quality, grade A, Colombian snow.”

Comments in favor and agaist have appeared on social media. One of them wrote the following:

This is the best ugly Christmas sweater copy ever written 😂😂 @Walmart @walmart #epic #fail #walmart #uglychristmassweater https://t.co/F8DkRMYw5s

— Zorina Baksh (@Zorina_Baksh) 7 dicembre 2019

The Walmart site also featured other adult-themed sweaters like one showing an upside-down snowman with a carrot nose and two baubles hanging below it, while another which had Santa roasting his “chestnuts” over a fire.

 

Due to to comments and controversy, the company decided to remove the product from the site. Besides, it apologized for the sale of the product.

A spokesman for the retail giant said: “These sweaters, sold by a third-party seller on Walmart.ca, do not represent Walmart’s values and have no place on our website.

“We have removed these products from our marketplace. We apologise for any unintended offence this may have caused.”

Source: Sky News/CNN Business