From Itchmo: Wal-mart - Worst Cover Up Ever?

[Geff]

More Recalled Menu Foods Pet Food Found In Wal-Mart

Yesterday we posted about Sheri McComber, an Alabama cat owner, who bought recalled Special Kitty cat food from a Wal-Mart store. She claims that four of her cats are sick from eating the recalled cat food.

This was not just an isolated incident in one Wal-Mart store. There is still more recalled cat food on shelves in another Wal-Mart store. A TV news team in Alabama went to the Clanton Wal-Mart and found dozens of Special Kitty Pouches just like the ones McComber had purchased.

Initially, the product code checks out as safe, but if the sticker is peeled off, there is another product code underneath. The original UPC code underneath the sticker matches the ones on the pet food recall list.

Because the stickers are over the recalled product code, the items can be purchased by consumers. The news investigator left one of the stickers off of the packages. When the cashier scanned the label on the package, it said do not sell and the cashier would not let him purchase it.

Calls were made to Menu Foods and Wal-Mart in regards to the recalled cat food still on shelves. Wal-Mart issued a statement: “We have worked with our supplier to investigate the concerns raised by WSFA 12 News. Menu Foods, the manufacturer of Special Kitty products, assures us that the products currently available in Wal-Mart stores are, indeed, safe.”

A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said the problem is with the packaging, and not the product. In regards to the packaging problems, she said Menu Foods would have to answer that question. There has been no comment from Menu Foods.

Source: WSFA TV

[eternaljester81]

Everything about this is so sad...and absolutely infuriating.

[Geff]

They're now trying to say that they are using old bags with new food. Yeah, right.
We've also got a report of 4 sick kitties with kidney issues on this food.

[MissLori]

I boycotted Walmart long ago for a variety of other reason. This just adds to my confidence that they are not a retailer I ever want to shop at.

[Geff]

Amazing how little the general public cares.

Rock group The Eagles has an exclusive contract with Walmart in the USA, that is the only place their next few cd's will be available. There's a music board I also post on. I posted a brief summary of this situation (with a suggestion of boycotting) with links to Itchmo. The only post that even acknowledged what I'd written suggested that I buy the cd from Walmart on the internet so I wouldn't have to walk into the store. All other posters has so far ignored what I wrote.

[empire]

How are they allowed to get away with it?

[Therese]

How are they allowed to get away with it?

Because people keep buying from them! Positive or negative...money talks!