People Are Irate At Walmart’s Display When They See What Sign Above It Says
By Timfly
Walmart shoppers in Florida entered the Panama City store to be greeted by the sight of a new display right inside the front doors that was created overnight out of soda boxes. The hidden message was only made worse when they looked up and read what the banner above it said, prompting them to demand the removal of the entire thing immediately.
A man named Shawn Richard noticed it on Tuesday. He was on vacation in Florida with his girlfriend, and they’d stopped at the Walmart to buy some things for the beach.
“We stopped and stared at it like, oh my god,” Richard told BuzzFeed News. “Nobody seemed to be noticing it, it wasn’t very crowded, and I got the feeling that it had just been assembled. So we took some pics and went on our way.”
Richard tweeted the photo, which depicts soda boxes stacked in the shape of the Twin Towers.
He posted a picture of the Coke box display above with the caption, “Florida, c’mon man.” Richard and many others thought that the tribute to the fallen twin towers and the thousands of victims who lost their lives at ground zero was a grossly disrespectful marketing ploy.
Beneath a banner with the pre-terror attack New York skyline and the words, “We will never forget,” are cases of Coke products configured in a way that made a flag with two towers in front of it, representing the twin towers.
Richard felt that using the black Coke Zero boxes to make the towers was a disrespectful play on words since they were representing ground zero. In addition to that extra deep meaning was the fact that he assumed Coke was trying to capitalize on tragedy and not actually paying tribute to these people who Americans will take special time in remembering three days from now.
Thousands have retweeted it in the past two days. People were pretty pissed.
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