Bed Bath & Beyond denies it has scrapped Ivanka Trump goods
Bed Bath & Beyond denies it has scrapped Ivanka Trump goods:- Bed Bath & Beyond is belatedly denying reports last week that it has dumped Ivanka Trump merchandise from its stores.
The home-goods retailer – which had stayed silent on Friday after the anti-Trump campaign GrabYourWallet claimed a victory in clearing Trump-branded goods from yet another retail chain – said on its Facebook page on Saturday that it’s still carrying the stuff, after all.
A day earlier, GrabYourWallet had posted an email from a Bed Bath & Beyond customer-service rep who told a shopper that the retailer no longer carried Ivanka Trump-branded goods.
“We want to apologize for recent confusion caused by one of our customer service representatives,” the retailer wrote, saying the rep “inadvertently provided information to a customer that was not accurate.”
The housewares giant added, “We are not making our merchandising decisions based on anyone’s political beliefs. We have Ivanka Trump products in some stores and carry them where consumer demand and business performance justifies it.”
GrabYourWallet — which has claimed credit for retailers including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and QVC dropping Trump-branded merchandise — posted the email from the Bed Bath & Beyond service rep on Friday as proof of yet another victory.
GrabYourWallet also pointed out that a search for Ivanka Trump on the retailer’s web site turned up zilch – which was still the case as of Sunday afternoon.
Source:- http://nypost.com/2017/04/02/bed-bath-beyond-denies-it-has-scrapped-ivanka-trump-goods/
