Local Wal-Mart Apologizes for Accidentally Carrying Hanukkah Wrapping Paper
FAIRHOPE, AL (TheSkunk.org) — Christian protestors expressed their outrage yesterday outside the Wal-Mart on County Road, after someone in their Church discovered Hanukkah wrapping paper for sale in a bin at the end of the Christmas aisle.
“I was shopping for traditional green and red Santa Claus and Nativity Scene gift wrap,” said Bertha McGregor, “when I suddenly came upon several rolls of blue and silver paper adorned with six-pointed stars – as opposed to the normal, five-pointed Christian stars, like the ones the Wise Men saw in the night sky above Bethlehem .”
According to McGregor, that’s when she realized the retailer was selling “Jew paper.” She immediately went to the store manager to complain.
The manager, Chuck Palminteri, explained that one of their employees accidentally ordered the paper. “After receiving a shipment of two dozen assorted rolls of the Hanukkah wrap,” he stated, “we decided it would be more expedient to display it alongside the other wrapping papers than to return it.”
McGregor has since ordered the paper removed from shelves and destroyed immediately.
“We realize it was wrong to offer the Hanukkah wrapping paper for sale,” he said, “and we apologize to anyone who was offended by this error in judgment.”
Palminteri said he has asked forgiveness of Jesus and promised his customers never to allow “a mistake of this magnitude” to happen again.
McGregor does not buy the argument that it was a mistake. “This is all part of the war on Christmas,” she declared. “It’s political correctness gone amuck, forcing us to plow through non-Christian items in order to wrap our gifts with paper that glorifies our praise for the Lord.”
The store issued a statement, expressing regret for carrying the Hanukkah wrapping paper and confirming that “the accidental sale of Jewish themed products does not reflect the views of our staff or management.”
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Comments
By Judas on December 18th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
The sad thing is that this is completely believable.
By Brandi Freed on December 18th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Um, Jesus was Jewish. Get a grip.
By carol papineau on December 18th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
I think this is a terrible insult and I won’t ever shop at Walmart again. Geez people! get your heads out from where the sun doesn’t shine!
By Hugh Mann on December 18th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians – they are so unlike your Christ.” – M.K. Gandhi
By Perejenn on December 19th, 2011 at 6:19 am
People. Get a grip.
This is a joke paper.
Like The Onion.
By sarha reed on December 19th, 2011 at 10:08 am
Oh my gosh! I like to consider myself a Christian and I love the Christmas holiday! However Christianity is not the only religion and it should not have been that big of a deal to someone! Do people forget where Jesus came from? Besides for all those who say they are Christians thou shalt not judge!
By Celeste on December 19th, 2011 at 11:11 am
As a Christian, I am offended….Holidays are celebrated in other way besides the Christian way. I fond this disgusting and will NOT shop in Walmart anymore!
By OUTRAGED on December 25th, 2011 at 8:04 am
THESE PEOPLE ARE A BUNCH OF TOTAL MORONS!
DO THEY THINK JEWS HAVE HORNS AND ARE THE DEVIL?
Bertha McGregor and Chuck Palminteri AND WALFART ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL!
By Becky Wilson on December 26th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Well believe it or not Walmart could make alot of money selling Jewish items. Target always has alot ot Hanakuah supplies, bags, wrapping paper decorations etc and sell out early. I shop at Walmart and only go to Target during this season to get the Jewish items. I agree with Brandi, Jesus was Jewish, you so called Christians are going to shocked when he comes back.
By Karen on January 9th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
The unbelievably ironic thing about this is that Jesus is Jewish and He celebrated HANUKKAH, not Christmas! John chapter 10 mentions the celebration of Hanukkah, also known as the “Feast of Dedication”! Jesus was in the temple during the feast and there He declared His divinity! But He never asked His followers to throw Him a birthday party every year and for the first 300 or so years after His resurrection, His followers NEVER celebrated His birthday, but they DID celebrate Hanukkah!!! Also, the word Christmas is nowhere to be found in the Bible nor a Bible concordance. Also, He wasn’t even born anywhere near December 25th. If you read the Bible account of His birth, you will find that the shepherds were out in the fields, tending their flocks by night. They brought the flocks indoors way before December because it was too cold. There are many other proofs that He wasn’t born on December 25th, but I can’t go into all of them here. He was born during the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Trumpets, which are both in September or October.
By Earlene Rump on May 19th, 2012 at 11:12 am
This is outrajus and I will never shop at walmart agin!! Im a good christin woman and i am really offendid that walmart would sell hanukah stuff among all there other stuff. whats the world coming to? Its bad enough we have all this gay marriage stuff that these homos are demanding and now we have walmart carrying ungodly anti-christian wrapping paper. they should know better than to sell this. i try to raise my children to be good christians and i am so tired of praying for things to get better and the jus get worse. its horrible that we actually have a muslin from kinya as president and I think he’s the antichrist too and I just want the rapture to come so I can go live with my jesus and where their are no homos and where I can be with my dear departed relatives well all accept uncle remus he farted in church one time so I supose hes in hell where he belongs. I jus dont know whats going to happen next people marrying there dogs I suppose and who knows what walmart will be selling next marriage invitashens for homo couples I suppose. I wonder if fox news knows about walmart selling this demon inspired wrapping paper someone should tell them.
By Dee on September 28th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Coming from a Christian Jew ancestors, i see nothing wrong with HANUKKAH gift wrapping, although it should be available during the celebration of Hanukkah.
I am strongly opposed to selling the 5-pointed stars because they represent Satanic cults with the 5-pointed pentagram.
I am a Jesus Loving, born-again believer and am appalled at Walmart for putting Jesus in the dumpster at Christmas, and selling products made from dogs,cats and other animals that were beaten and skinned alive, imported from China and sold in America.
By Alisa on October 19th, 2012 at 10:04 am
So let me get this straight, it’s okay to to have Kwanzaa and traditional “Christmas” wrap, but not Hanukkah wrap? Get a grip people. Are you so arrogant you think you’re the only ones who celebrate a holiday or, for that matter, going to heaven? I’m Jewish by ancestry and am proud of it, even though I celebrate a traditional Christmas with my family. Am I offended? No. Will I no longer shop Walmart? No. Should you people get a conscience and wake up? YES!
By Casey Owens on November 30th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Really, Sister-Bertha-Better-Than-You?! What about the fact that your Jesus WAS a Jew? A devout, Torah-abiding, synagogue-attending, Israeli (that’s middle eastern), Jew? As for the Walmart manager…shame on your for your anti-semitism! Hitler would be soooo proud of you both. And you wonder why the world hates Christians.
By sandie on December 5th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Really, this situation is another disappointment. Shame on this manager. Clearly he is an anti-semite along with the rest of those who complained. Really these people who called themselves “religious” should go back to their bible because they have missed the whole point! The scary part is that those people have the right to vote and raise children!
By get a grip on December 5th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
It’s satire.
By Sarah on December 8th, 2012 at 8:39 am
I am so offended by this story and the events that apparently took place here! Jew Paper!?!?!?! RACISM and IGNORANCE at its finest! Jews celebrate Hanukkah around the same time as Christmas and we have a right to buy Hanukkah paper at wal-mart too! This woman is a BIGOT and the store mannager should be ashamed of himself for giving into such racism and HATRED! I am appaled that the manager would see fit to destroy the paper! This article has me seeing red! The funny thing is I came across this article when I tried to look up if wal-mart sell Hanukkah apparel. What country are we living in? Is it Nazi Germany? That so called “Jew Paper” Should be complained about and thus destroyed makes me absolutely SICK I am filled with rage at having read this story and I need to know what I can do about it now? I should find this evil woman and pain a big christmas red swastika on her front lawn for being such a propagator of EVIL
By messianic on December 20th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
How absurd! I am messianic which means I’m a Christian Jew! I celebrate Hanukkah. I know that I am a oxymoron to most but that is what I believe. This is still America and I still do have the right to believe how I want! Sister Bertha better than you is just an idiot! Shalom!
By juanita on February 20th, 2013 at 7:45 am
“Palminteri said he has asked forgiveness of Jesus and promised his customers never to allow “a mistake of this magnitude” to happen again.”
Wonder if he knows that the very One he tried to apologize to is a Jew? (the same yesterday. today & forever)
Can’t help but shiver-to-think that it’s this kind of people that can make (bad)history repeat itself.