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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 04:19:12 PM
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(http://www.weaselzippers.net/.a/6a00e008c6b4e588340120a91ac3db970b-pi)
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.
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.
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/black-barbie-sold-white-barbie-walmart-store/story?id=10045008)
h/t weaselzippers
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Shouldn't they be 3/5ths the price?
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supply & demand........... plain and simple...........
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Somebody's gonna post this, so it might as well be me:
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Isn't this encouraging people to purchase the lower priced doll?
I hear you can order a commemorative Michelle Obama, Hospital Board of Directors doll but it costs $300,000 and it never shows up.
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Isn't this encouraging people to purchase the lower priced doll?
I hear you can order a commemorative Michelle Obama, Hospital Board of Directors doll but it costs $300,000 and it never shows up.
And they don't offer a replacement for it either.