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• Kmart Accuses Shopper of Buying Shoes

  There was the 39-cent stick of fruit leather. The marked-down tube of Sonia Kashuk lip gloss. The $12 ham for which we only paid $5. All stuff I or my daughter have left a store with after paying too little or nothing at all. Unknowingly, of course. And I can't be the only one who has ever been an accomplice to accidental thievery, especially among those of us who regularly shop with small children. Oh, it could have been bad, real bad, though. Like what happened to an editor at the Wall Street Journal, after she underpaid for a pair of flip-flops during a Kmart buying spree. The short version: she found a pair of size 9 flip-flops, plopped them in a box marked “9,” loaded her cart and that of her step-daughter-in-law’s with $800 worth of goods, paid and walked out. A tap on her shoulder. It was store security. Please come this way. Read More... Posted Sep 22 2007, 10:43 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: shopping, crime, wall street journal, Kmart

• Buy a Multicultural Doll at...Kmart?

  When my daughter Serena was a toddler she developed a fixation on some dolls in the kindergarten at her big brother's school. If I had been paying attention I would have noticed that the dolls she loved had one feature in common, but in my naivete I endeavored to make her a doll of her own. In skin and hair tones that matched hers. She hated the doll and let it drop, unwanted, to the floor after she unwrapped it. The Waldorfy doll that had taken me hours to make and that I was so proud to present to her, knowing how much she loved dolls. The problem? It didn't have the brown skin and black hair of the dolls she loved. (The next year I bought her one with brown skin and black hair, having learned my lesson, and she still loves it.) Read More... Posted Aug 21 2007, 01:31 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, dolls, Kmart, multiculturalism, multicultural dolls, baby dolls