Walmart: "We Have Your Rebel Class Ring, You want it, Paid for it, but You can't Have it."

By Elizabeth Nelson

Once again, we have Walmart screwing yet another customer out of a Rebel Mascot (with unrecognizable Confederate flag) Class Ring, but this one has a twist.   

The Walmart Store in Fort Smith, Arkansas had made the announcement in June that they would no longer be selling anything with the rebel flag. 

Well, that's all fine and good, but Elaine Glidewell ordered and paid for her nephew's class ring in May, long before the "no-sell" date had been made.  This story gets worse.  They called her and told her that her ring was ready for pick up, then wouldn't give it to her and went even further when they stuck the proverbial dagger into her stomach and twisted it.  

Another individual has found herself without a high school class ring after being denied service at Walmart. Once again, the customer’s only fault is that the school being featured on the ring has a “Rebel” as its mascot.

What makes this story even more controversial, however, is what the retailer said it would and wouldn’t do with the class ring once it had been made.(and paid for - I smell a breach of contract lawsuit coming.) 

When asked what they were going to do with her ring now - get a load of the crappy answer.  Twist of the knife, anyone?

“[The employee] said, ‘well, we are going to melt it,’ and I said ‘You are going to melt my ring?’…I wanted to cry. I stood there with tears in my eyes.”  Read more IJReview

If Walmart is going to insist on not selling the Confederate flags, for fear of offending black people and appearing racist, or at best ignorant of history, then they had better stop selling white sheets, fried chicken, watermelon and the Electric Slide.