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I worked at Walmart for just about a year, and that was over 2 years ago and I bought tons of movies in there that were not edited at all. Maybe it all depends on where you live and how your Walmart stocks its movies. I live about 2 hours North of NYC and for a while, we were the only Super Walmart open 24 hours so we got everyone in the store. Like I said, I guess it really depends on the area you live.

As for the question at hand, like it has been said before, this is not really a big deal. It was a mistake and Walmart will move on. They have moved on from much worse. Look at the whole 'Women of Walmart" spread they did in Playboy? Now that was a story! haha

Wal*Mart own ASDA (so much so that the huge ASDA superstore near me is called an ASDA-Wal*Mart Superstore) and I am pretty sure you can buy GTA:SA and Parental Advisory stickered CDs at my local ASDA. You do have to prove your age when you get to the till I think. Is this just a US/UK difference? Also the shop that gets the most flak in the UK for destroying local economies seems to be TESCO.

Wal Mart doesn't sell edited DVDs - unless they are sent something by a manufacturer that is pre-edited. Now, Wal-Mart and CD's are another matter. Wal-Mart does sell edited down music CD's. As for books, they tend to simply not carry stuff they think will get them in trouble to begin with (they also do this with some music artists - try finding Bruce Springsteen stuff at Wal Mart sometimes).

Generally if Wal Mart doesn't like somethings content these days they just don't carry it and that can mean the death of a product because Walmart is the 400lb gorrila. They control most of the US retail market so what they say goes (they control the market through their wholesale buying power).

PS: I believe what lead to Wal Mart accepting DVD's without editing was that a) the movie industry is as powerful as they are and they told Wal Mart they weren't going to edit stuff for them (unlike the music industry who blinked and did what Wal Mart told them) and b) Wal Mart has said they need to compete with movies and they knew if they edited movies people would stop buying from them and go to someone who sold unedited movies, like Target, Best Buy, or a online retailer. Keep in mind that the music editing issue originally came about almost 20 years ago - before the Internet entered the picture. Wal Mart was able to make the music editing stick because they didn't really have competition at the time but by the time DVDs because mainstream Internet stores were common and cutting into their sales (so they had to play their cards differently).

Actually Walmart does have control of the edits. They can make certain book chains not carry books if they go against Walmart policies.

Remember the story about walmart chains pulling certain magazines?

Remember the John Stewart book?

http://campusprogress.org/features/447/the-wal-mart-thought-police

Walmart does pressure record and movie as well as book companies to edit stuff.

http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2004/10/26/Commentary/WalMarts.Immoral.Policies.Revealed-781233.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailycampus.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2004-12-11-walmart-music_x.htm

A lot of people don't know that certain stores like Walmart will not sell the uncut versions of albums.

A lot of walmart stores do not carry the unedited content. All you will ever see in the store is the edited stuff.

Books a Million is the same.

Well, it sucks that Walmart won't sell uncut stuff. But what are you gonna do? You can't *make Walmart sell anything.

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