3.09.2010

It's all about supply and demand!

Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store

Excerpt:

A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel's Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Theresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Theresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Theresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93. The dolls look identical aside from their color.

Editors at Guanabee.com said the person responsible for the photo told the Web site that it was taken at a Louisiana Walmart store. The person did not return e-mails from ABCNews.com.

A Walmart spokeswoman, who could not verify the exact store shown in the photo, said that the price change on the Theresa doll was part of the chain's efforts to clear shelf space for its new spring inventory.


Comments:

  • My wife never had a Barbie doll. My daughter never did either!
  • I think they are stupid! Legos are my toy of choice!
  • WalMart is not pricing human beings! They are pricing dolls
  • Want the price to go up ... buy more of them!

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