Well, over the weekend after I got home from work I got online and checked my email. One of the things I got in my email was about Wal Mart. Now anyone who has read my main page has seen that I bash on Wal Mart some because they don’t sell explicit CD’s, yet sell R rated movies and sell cigarettes and guns… all things that require age verification, yet they can’t sell CD’s with a label on them.
So anyway I get this email Saturday:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 4, 2005, In a statement released today Kirk Phillips, chief executive of Houston based record label GoreallaEntertainment.com, is publicly putting Wal-Mart on notice: “Carry our product, in the original unedited format or face serious legal action.”
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and record store have a standing policy since 1996 of not stocking CDs, which carry parental advisory labels. Phillips cries foul whenever the policy is mentioned.
HERE IS THEIR SITE TO READ THE REST
This wasn’t sent to me by someone I know or even someone who has read my site and decided to let me know this. This was sent to me from the public relations of the above record company. Although I don’t know how far they will get with the lawsuit, I applaud them for trying. I have always thought that the policy was bullshit and I don’t think anyone should have to kiss Wal Mart’s ass to make a living in the entertainment industry.
In other news, work sucks. Thursday we found out that there were some possible bogus Post Office money orders floating around town. We don’t cash any money orders at our store anyway because it is our policy, so we should be ok right? Wrong. Sunday morning when I’m going through cash drawers what do I find? A Post Office money order for $100, that’s what I find. I have no clue if it was bogus or not, but I deposited it with the rest of the checks and crossed my fingers. Also for the first time on Saturday one of the bundles of money from the bank was $4 short. That has never happened to me in the year that I’ve been working in the office. The ones come in bundled in packs of $100 and they are separated in packs of $25 within that $100 bundle. Well, one of the small bundles only had $21 in it. Well, that makes the safe short that money because your deposit is your deposit and you can’t take away from that to make your safe right. Since I was off today I won’t know until tomorrow what came of that situation. Maybe they’ll think I stole the money or something. You know, I’m so hard up I need to take $4 so I can pay off my car… considering I carried over $10,000 in cash two days in a row to the bank I’m sure I’m a prime suspect.
On a positive note, South Park’s new season starts this Wednesday and I can’t wait… time to get a new tape out.