GFP: Kmart is in the news for banning customers from using Christian words like “Jesus,” “Bible,” or “church” at the store’s photo kiosk, but apparently it does not mind customers using Islam, Muslim or other Islamic terns.
The struggling former retail giant uses a computer system with preprogrammed software for its photo kiosks, but some customers have recently found that there are certain words that the software will not allow them to use in the editing program, according to the Daily Mail.
According to customers in Australia, when they tried to use the banned words in the photo kiosk, the words were replaced by a series of asterisks and the desired word could not be used.
A Kmart spokesman quickly apologized for the software saying it was juuuust a glitch. more here
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I was unaware K-Mart was still in business.
I’m with you: Is K-Mart still a thing? If so, who would even go there?
Undoubtedly they are still operational in Australia…..
Kmart seems intent on going out of business.
This should help it achieve that end.
There are NO Kmartsanywhere near me in TN. And NO sears stores either.
Can you say “DoDo”?
But there is no war on Christianity.
Thanks, social media. Now all the corporations want to try their hand at censorship. Maybe some people shouldn’t be learning to code.
“…the banned words included, Jesus, Church, Christian, Bible, Jewish, and Canadian.” 😮 !!!
“Glitch” is an annoying weasel word. It conveys the idea that the problem was the result of a simple error or carelessness, or a machine failure of some sort.
This item shows otherwise. Somebody decided to add a feature to the software to forbid the use of words in a taboo list. Then somebody decided to put words such as “Jesus” and “Christian” on the list.
When human beings make conscious decisions, and the outcome is exactly what they intended, that’s not a “glitch”.
We used to have as many as three Kmarts plus the big mall Sears. Now none and a big empty area in the mall.
Lowe’s is crapping up their stores with Craftsman line of products and bumping out a lot of their Kobalt stuff.
This explains one of the reasons we keep importing more Muslims by the boatload: computer programmers.
If I already didn’t shop there, I’d stop shopping there.
…who cares, they’re dead anyway. I just didn’t know they were gonna go SPIRITUALLY dead first…
Going-out-of-business-sale in 3…2… 1… 😳
Our last K Mart in Eastern Washington closed its doors forever in February and almost immediately became a gigantic U Haul franchise. And all the Shopko’s are just about gone as well.
Just another “isolated incident”…