Kmart Covers Up Lead Warning Labels On Halloween Masks

[IChing]

A St. Louis woman has a warning about certain Halloween masks. She said the company she worked for, Kmart, told her to hide the warnings about lead.

Cathy Warren said, "The store manager told me to take a black magic marker go over the warning and then put the black label over it and that's what I did." Warren worked as one of the department managers at the Kmart on Manchester. She said she was fired 2 weeks ago over a different issue.

NewsChannel 5 took a hidden camera into K-Mart. On the shelves, we found Halloween masks that had the black stickers. NewsChannel 5 bought some to see what the stickers were covering. When we peeled it off, it revealed the warning for the lead.

The store manager told NewsChannel 5 he didn't know why the lead warnings were covered up. But a corporate spokesperson said this is simply a mislabeling issue and the company is not trying to hide anything. >>>.snip

http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=86617

Crazy California is the only state that requires a sticker if the product contains lead
HAPPY HALLOWEEN KIDDIES.

[No Exit]

1. May be true, but I'll bet WAL-MART put it out there.

[IChing]

2. If you read the article and see the video it is a local affair

Done by the local K-mart management.

[Spinzonner]

3. A 'Sear'ing indictment

of their business practices

[rsmith6621]

4. Doesnt Bush Use

Black markers to cover up thing he doesnt want the world to see to?

[ThomWV]

5. K-Mart is Wal Mart's Opposite

In many ways and it just doesn't sound like the sort of thing K-Mart would do company-wide. By the way, K-Mart has openly announced that it is going to get out of the cheap retail market within the next several years. They make this information available to their employees and offer retraining now for the jobs the company expects to have in the future - a lot better thing for a company to offer than a pink slip.