Thursday, January 19, 2006

Walmart and Racism

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"Walmart.com's item mapping process does not work correctly and at this point is mapping seemingly random combinations of titles. We were horrified to discover that some hurtful and offensive combinations are being mapped together," she said, adding that the company was "deeply sorry that this happened." Their software recommended Black American themed movies to go with Planet of the Apes. Sounds a little bit too thought-out to be "random".

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