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[innerSpaceman]

That does kinda looked poorly photoshopped, what with the text not at all aligned with the edges of the plastic it's supposedly printed on.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

That does kinda looked poorly photoshopped, what with the text not at all aligned with the edges of the plastic it's supposedly printed on.

Now that you mention it, it does have a shopped quality, but Harps has responded so I'm inclined to think it may be real.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Just so y'all know, we have about three months before the US military completely disintegrates.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Now that you mention it, it does have a shopped quality, but Harps has responded so I'm inclined to think it may be real.

Apparently the shields are now down (SM's link has been updated).

[SzczerbiakManiac]

The official response:

We have received a number of complaints regarding an incident in our Mountain Home store involving the current issue of US Weekly Magazine depicting Elton John, David Furnish and their newborn son. I would like to explain how this happened. For many years we have provided each of our stores with shields which can be used at the manager’s discretion to cover the front of magazines when they receive complaints from our customers regarding either the photo on the cover of the magazine or the titles of articles contained within the magazine. Sometimes those photos might be sexually provocative or too revealing. The magazine article titles might also be too suggestive for some customers.

In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.

Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention, we reversed.

Kim B. Eskew
President & COO
Harps Food Stores, Inc.