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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 12:57 PM Dec 2013

IRONY ALERT: Walmart Cashing In On Occupy Wall Street Protest Movement - Zuccotti Park Poster $42.75

America's biggest retailer is cashing in on the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.




Walmart is selling a pair of posters depicting scenes from the main Occupy Wall Street protest encampment in New York City's Zuccotti Park at the movement's height in late 2011.

One of the posters shows the tents that filled the park before it was cleared by police in November 2011. It retails for $42.75. The other is slightly larger and shows a protester holding an American flag inside the park. It is selling for $52.25.

The poster showing the tents was out of stock on the Wal Mart site on Tuesday morning, but the larger one was still available. One customer using the handle TyMcW reviewed the tent poster on the site and given it a five star rating.

"Rated excellent for the incredible irony," the person wrote.


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IRONY ALERT: Walmart Cashing In On Occupy Wall Street Protest Movement - Zuccotti Park Poster $42.75 (Original Post) kpete Dec 2013 OP
Time to call the lawyers Politicalboi Dec 2013 #1
Walmart Once Again Slinking Below The Belly Of A Snake n/t HangOnKids Dec 2013 #2
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. Time to call the lawyers
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:54 PM
Dec 2013

How can WalMart profit off of pictures they had no rights too? If I was that protester, I would want to be paid for WalMart using my image.

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