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# Irony
Wal-Mart is selling an Occupy Wall Street poster
Though an outside vendor is selling the item on the company’s marketplace, a lot of people still found it ironic.
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OCCUPY WALL STREET was a movement protesting the greed of big corporations – including Wal-Mart.
Now, in an ironic twist, Wal-Mart is selling a poster portraying the protests in New York City.
Here’s a screengrab from Wal-Mart’s website:
An outside vendor is selling the item on Wal-Mart’s marketplace, but many people still found the poster ironic.
“Quite possibly the only thing funnier than being able to purchase a Ché Guervara tee shirt at a big box chain store would be the ability to buy a panoramic poster featuring Occupy Wall Street’s encampment in Lower Manhattan from that chain,” wrote Andrew Kirell at Mediaite.
This is the best quality image of the poster we could get:
- Ashley Lutz.
