The Pensacola News Journal racks are going back in at Wal-Mart.
The newspaper reports:
Wal-Mart will allow the Pensacola News Journal to be sold at area stores, rescinding a ban imposed because of a newspaper column that a local manager considered derogatory to the retailer.
Columnist Mark O’Brien wrote in June 19 editions that Pensacola should “be more than the Wal-Mart kind of town we’re becoming — cheap and comfy on the surface, lots of unhappiness and hidden costs underneath.”
Sharon Weber, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman in Bentonville, Ark, is quoted as saying “we did make an error in judgment by removing the papers from our stores.”
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