spacemanspiff
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news story from yahoo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Magazine covers with racy headlines and pictures at Wal-Mart check-out lines will be getting a little coverage of their own.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it is rolling out magazine racks that partially cover the pictures and catchy but usually sex-oriented headlines of four women's magazines -- considering them as "provocative."
"For at least a year we'd been getting some feedback ... from customers who were uncomfortable with (the covers)," Wal-Mart spokesman Jay Allen said on Friday. Many of the complaints came from customers who were shopping with small children and saw the racy headlines.
The magazines affected are Hearst Corp.'s Redbook, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire and Conde Nast's Glamour. Copies of these same magazines, which often have headlines on sex advice, will be available in full view at the back of Wal-Mart stores.
Maurie Perl, senior vice president of corporate communications for Conde Nast, declined to comment. Hearst officials were not immediately available.
The move, which will only affect those magazines sold at the check-out racks, comes a month after the world's largest retailer pulled from its shelves three men's magazines known for cover photos of scantily-clad models.
Family friendly Wal-Mart has been bowing to customer complaints on certain items sold in its stores. It has refused to sell certain CD's with explicit lyrics, pulled controversial toys and other products which it felt offended customers.
its about dang time. though i think they should go a few steps further. block out the headlines from tabloids and that god-awful magazine of orpahs. same with the magazines about food and cooking, they just encourage people to eat more. and the ones about soap operas, they just make people watch more meaningless tv shows.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Magazine covers with racy headlines and pictures at Wal-Mart check-out lines will be getting a little coverage of their own.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it is rolling out magazine racks that partially cover the pictures and catchy but usually sex-oriented headlines of four women's magazines -- considering them as "provocative."
"For at least a year we'd been getting some feedback ... from customers who were uncomfortable with (the covers)," Wal-Mart spokesman Jay Allen said on Friday. Many of the complaints came from customers who were shopping with small children and saw the racy headlines.
The magazines affected are Hearst Corp.'s Redbook, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire and Conde Nast's Glamour. Copies of these same magazines, which often have headlines on sex advice, will be available in full view at the back of Wal-Mart stores.
Maurie Perl, senior vice president of corporate communications for Conde Nast, declined to comment. Hearst officials were not immediately available.
The move, which will only affect those magazines sold at the check-out racks, comes a month after the world's largest retailer pulled from its shelves three men's magazines known for cover photos of scantily-clad models.
Family friendly Wal-Mart has been bowing to customer complaints on certain items sold in its stores. It has refused to sell certain CD's with explicit lyrics, pulled controversial toys and other products which it felt offended customers.
its about dang time. though i think they should go a few steps further. block out the headlines from tabloids and that god-awful magazine of orpahs. same with the magazines about food and cooking, they just encourage people to eat more. and the ones about soap operas, they just make people watch more meaningless tv shows.
). And I will not buy an edited CD, I want my cussing damn-it!