Walmart Workers Refuse to Make Cop’s Retirement Cake

At least Walmart tried to make this right. Should the workers have been fired? Could this be compared to the bakers who didn't want to make a cake for a gay wedding?

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Walmart Workers Refuse to Make Cop’s Retirement Cake

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By Todd Starnes

Three Walmart workers in McDonough, Georgia refused to decorate a “thin blue line” cake for a police officer’s retirement party because they said it was racist.

A number of my Georgia readers alerted me to the story and on Saturday night I spoke directly with the police officer’s daughter. She asked that I not divulge her name and I’ve agreed to honor her request.

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“I was so shocked,” she told me. “I didn’t know what to do or say or anything. I was trying not to lose my temper or make a scene.”
“The baker told me the blue line cake was racist”
— POLICE OFFICER'S DAUGHTER
For the record, Walmart has confessed that most of her allegations are true. I’ll have more on that a bit later in this column.

The police officer’s daughter went to the Walmart on Willow Drive on Sept. 22 to order a flag for her father’s retirement party. He was leaving the force after 25-years on the job.

She showed the bakers a photograph of the police officer’s flag - the black and white version of Old Glory with a blue line.

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“One of the bakers told me the design could be perceived as racist and nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” the police officer’s daughter told me.

As an alternative, she suggested a chocolate-frosted cake with a horizontal, frosted blue line.

But that design was also rejected by Walmart’s cake decorator.

“She said, ‘I don’t feel comfortable doing this,’” the cop’s daughter told me. “I asked her, ‘Is there something wrong with cops?’”

After being rejected for a third time, the 21-year-old told the bakers, “I’ll find another bakery, thank you.”

She was much more polite than I would’ve been, folks.

“I was disappointed,” she told me. “I go to Walmart all the time — at least once a week spend hundreds of dollars. I just wanted to make my dad a cake to show how much i appreciated him.”

A friend of the family posted an item about the incident on Facebook and it wasn’t long before the Walmart store manager called the police officer’s wife and daughter — and apologized.

“He said he was so sorry,” the daughter told me. “He offered to make the cake free of charge and he gave me a $50 gift card.”

A Walmart corporate spokesperson confirmed most of the story.

“Our goal is to always take care of customers,” the spokesperson told me. “But, sometimes we misstep.We’re glad we were able to connect with the family to apologize and make this right.”

Walmart did not say if one of their associates called the cake racist.

“I can confirm an associate made a mistake that has since been corrected for the customer,” the spokesperson told me.

So how did Walmart right their wrong? The answer to that question is going to curdle your Fruit Loops, folks.

The manager offered to make and decorate a new cake. But there was just one problem — the cake decorators refused to comply.

“So the manager told me that he would decorate it — but it looked terrible,” the police officer’s daughter said. “It doesn’t look professional.”

I’ve attached photographs of Walmart’s handiwork — it’s absolutely embarrassing and unacceptable.

“I work in retail,” the officer’s daughter told me. “If I didn’t want to deal with a customer — and said ‘No’ — I would get fired.”

Unfortunately, her father’s retirement party is Sunday night - so there’s no time to go elsewhere.

“It irritates me that in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Walmart was looted and the cops were protecting them,” she said. “And you can’t make a cake for the people who are protecting you?”

Walmart needs to make this right and they can start by delivering a professionally decorated cake to the police officer’s family.

The three cake decorators need to be told: either decorate the cake or be fired.

Just because Walmart is the home of low prices, doesn’t mean they have to hire a bunch of low class, anti-cop bigots.

 

Who cares

 

Me, and I doubt I'm alone. Just because a person is a police does not make them racist anymore than being black makes you a thug. It's stupid.

 

They should be fired, their job is to make cakes, not play social justice dimwit on the world stage. Hopefully some police friendly organization sues Walmart for millions of dollars for their prejudiced ways and utter and complete lack of proper standards...

 

That's one ugly cake. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

 

Gay wedding cakes?

 

People with decency and brains.

My condolences.

 

Or people with too much time on their hands.

 

Many people, mostly hardworking law-abiding citizens with integrity: you probably wouldn't understand.

 

*yawn*

 

Not according to this forum. I haven't seen any whites on here being called a "thug".

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Right, but you guys don't have a problem when a woman doesn't want to give a marriage license to a gay couple.

 

This incident shows that there's a perfect opportunity for an entrepreneur to make cakes that other people won't make. So someone should open up a web site that offers cakes for gay weddings and cop retirements. It'll be a real money-maker.

 

Wait wait wait... so you are now OK with the rights of a private company not to make gay wedding cakes, relying on the free market to correct any perceived injustices?

Welcome to the republican party.

 

I care! This is UNACCEPTABLE! Those employees should be fired!!

 

All I'm saying is that the incident shows that there's a market opportunity for someone who wants to take it.

 

Will those employees be fined $135,000?

 

if true, yes the employee should be fired

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if Walmart backs the employee and refuses, yes, they should - I have never heard of actually employees being fined

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Sadly even here on this forum we have people who belive that all cops are racists and then there are those who belive all Black are thugs.

 

Or a 12 foot Bulgarian.

 

You're fired!

 

How about that dimwit county clerk who refused to do her job and issue a marriage license!

 

You need to have been directly injured by the action of Walmar to sue. Even so Wallmart would not be culpable unless WallMart had a policy against baking cakes for police.

 

With gays comprising only 3% if the population and I am sure not many police officers retired in any given year such a enterprise will not amount to crap.

 

Fire them, do your job or find one you can do

 

What if a group of WallMart employees refused to make a cake for BLM?.?