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xchrom

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Tue Dec 17, 2013, 08:00 AM Dec 2013

Wal-Mart Is Selling An Occupy Wall Street Poster

http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-marts-occupy-wall-street-poster-2013-12

Occupy Wall Street was a movement protesting the greed of big corporations—including Wal-Mart.

Now, in an ironic twist, Wal-Mart is selling a poster portraying the protests in New York City.

Here's a screengrab from Wal-Mart's website:



An outside vendor is selling the item on Wal-Mart's marketplace, but many people still found the poster ironic.

"Quite possibly the only thing funnier than being able to purchase a Ché Guevara tee shirt at a big box chain store would be the ability to buy a panoramic poster featuring Occupy Wall Street’s encampment in Lower Manhattan from that chain," writes Andrew Kirell at Mediaite.

Here's the closest image we could get of the actual poster:


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-marts-occupy-wall-street-poster-2013-12#ixzz2njUR3R00
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