Publix hides National Enquirer covers after complaints

[monmouth4]

Posted: 6:56 a.m. Wednesday, January 04, 2017

If you want to read The National Enquirer while you’re waiting online at Publix, you’ll have to hunt for it behind a plastic cover shielding its front page from public view.
After receiving continued complaints about the tabloid, Publix said it decided to add the Enquirer to the list of publications that it covers in its stores. In a statement posted on the grocer’s website, Publix officials said the decision was in response to numerous complaints not “particular cover or any political views.”

“Recently, due to continual complaints, Publix added The National Enquirer to the list of titles we permanently cover in our stores, the statement read. “Please know that this decision was based solely on a long history of customer complaints regarding offensive and objectionable material, not in response to a particular cover or any political views.”

But the move has drawn fire from some customers, who say the decision to cover the publication came after the tabloid ran a story about President-Elect Donald Trump. Some took to Twitter to sound off about the move.

More at : http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/national/publix-hides-national-enquirer-covers-after-complaints/PfZY10SZPvnfJNTmfwXpVI/

[progressoid]

1. Heh heh heh.

That's a good story to start off my morning!

[Roy Rolling]

13. Chuckling as we speak... n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Hiding it

won't make it go away

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. No, but it will help to not remind us of the 2016 epic fail election and the hell it has unleashed!

[Loge23]

3. I noticed that

Why carry it at all?

[ToxMarz]

4. I wondered what that was

I was going to turn them around, but they were already covered up. I didn't realize the store was doing that, good for them!

[alfredo]

7. How many offensive Enquirer covers were there about Hillary? Why now?

Is it verboten to criticise Herr Trump?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I don't think the move was due to Drumpf criticism

but due to Drumpf adoration after scathing critiques of everyone else including the Clintons and even Ted Cruz! See this more detailed story -

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/national-enquirer-covers-blocked-publix-trump-featured-cover-past-month/

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. That's what I thought.

[RKP5637]

5. Excellent!!! n/t

[underpants]

6. Ha! My post about the "checkout protest" from last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028422015

[Pholus]

9. Faithful protestor here.

Half a dozen times now. Pull it off the rack, pretend to leaf through it, put it back the wrong way. Simple, subtle, sends a nice message.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. I've done that a few times already. Thanks!

[DemoTex]

8. I actually commented on these opaque covers to my Publix manager last week, but ..

I added: "Quit selling TNE and other fake-news tabloids!" She loved my idea, but of course that decision would be at a higher level.
So, let's thank Publix for their move. But let's pressure Publix management to drop these specious publications totally.

[HughBeaumont]

10. The Perspirer loves their new Dumbass-elect.

David J Pecker is a huuuuuuuge Trumpkin.

[secondwind]

11. Hiding it will cause it to lose a lot of sales... hurt them where it hurts!

[Grins]

12. "...when you lose the Enquirer..." N/M

[malaise]

15. I was in a Miami Publix last month and they sure didn't cover

the fake story about Hillary Clinton

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. Fake? ... you mean Hillary was not abducted by aliens?

[malaise]

31. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahhaha

[PennyK]

16. SO glad to hear this

The worst part of it was that there has never been anything political in the check-out zone. And to start seeing all the anti-Hillary stuff and pro-Clownstick stuff has been driving me crazy.

I just sent them this message:

THANK YOU for deciding to cover the National Enquirer! The checkout aisle is not a political zone...it's a place for deciding whether to get a yummy candy treat or just replenish my sugar-free mints. I had been feeling as though I was being barraged by hate speech every time I checked out at my local store. And that's counter to the warm and friendly Publix shopping experience in every way.

[rzemanfl]

17. I noted this at my local Publix a few days ago and reported that in a thread here. n/t

[Phoenix61]

19. Yeah!!!

It always annoyed me they even carried that piece of trash.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. I saw that cover when I went through the checkline.

Turned my stomach. Definitely pushing Trump.

[Warpy]

21. I loved Publix when I shopped there in Florida

my mother always griped that they were expensive, but I thought the quality was so much better, it was worth it.

I wish I could patronize them here in NM. I hate seeing all that crap at the check stand.

[otohara]

22. I Turn Them Around

on both sides of the isle of me when waiting in the checkout lane.

[PennyK]

23. Well, nope

I just came back from my local Publix and the Enquirers were there, brazen and naked...and hating on Obama. I complained at the desk, and the clerk said "yeah, I think I saw something about that..." I turned around the ones I saw, at least.

[tavalon]

24. I go to every aisle and turn them backwards

[Maru Kitteh]

25. I've been turning them around backwards when I see them in the checkout line

And DAMN if it doesn't feel good.

[montana_hazeleyes]

26. The enquirer and globe may be owned by the same corp.

They are both horrible to the Clintons, Obamas and anything negative about the Kennedys. Really outrageous crap.

But they kiss Rumps rump all the time.

[milestogo]

30. He's not even inaugurated yet but people hate to look at him.