

| Subject: | Cupholders and Walmart |
| From: | Erik O |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:40:23 -0800 |
To the list, Sorry I wasn't specific as to my posting about OEM style cupholders and Wal-Mart. A few listmembers keyed in to the fact that I was joking, which is primaraly true. But actually there was a hidden issue that I don't think anyone touched on. On friday news reports announced that Wal-Mart has forced the music industry to censor their products, edit for content and edit cover art that Wal-Mart management feels offensive. They think can do this due to the volume of music they sell in their stores. The figure I saw was around 8.5% of the industry sales. Wal-Mart banned the sale of Alanis Morresette's (sp.) new CD because of lyrics that said people buy guns over the counter at Wal-Mart, without restrictions, and commit crimes. (Also a company spokesperson claimed during that situtation that Wal-Mart didn't sell guns in their retail stores, only by mail order... not true!) I'm not very political but when I started to see the postings about cupholders on the list I suddenly lost control and went nuts. Sorry for the non-VW content. I'm not even going to go into what I think of the above situtation, I just wanted to explain my orginal posting. Erik
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