Walmart Sells Black Barbie Doll For 1/2 Price of White Barbie
March 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM Leave a comment
This from MotherJones, and I absolutely love the last two sentences:
Never let it be said that Walmart doesn’t know how to pander for a fast buck. The megachain acknowledged today that it’s selling ethnic Barbie dolls for about half of what it charges for Caucasian Barbies.
The store was forced into the admission after a Louisiana-based shopper posted a photo, seen here,
of the diverse dolls—and their respective pricetags—side by side in a Wal-Mart. As the good-humored Latino-interest blog Guanabee: “The same exact doll, in Caucasian, commands almost double the price! Who says Barbie dolls don’t supply young girls with a realistic portrayal of womanhood?”
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