Walmart, Sears, Amazon Stop Selling Confederate Flag
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Online retailer Amazon.com will pull Confederate flag items from its web store, a person with knowledge of the matter said, becoming the latest retailer to ban such merchandise after racially charged shootings in a South Carolina church last week.
The company came under pressure to remove the flags and similarly themed products from its online store after Walmart, Ebay and Sears said they’d stop selling the merchandise.
Amazon’s Facebook page has been lit up with demands from customers to cease selling items with the Southern rebel image or risk losing business. Controversy surrounding the Confederate flag intensified after Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old charged in the massacre of nine black worshipers in a historic church in Charleston, S.C. last week, was shown posing for pictures with it.
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