Wal-Mart to obscure 'racy' women's magazine covers
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores will begin obscuring the covers of some women's magazines stocked in checkout lanes, shortly after a decision to stop selling some men's magazines over their racy content.
The company has begun testing "U-shaped blinders" that will cover the photos and language on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire and Redbook, spokesman Tom Williams said at the company's annual shareholders meeting Friday.
"That's to accommodate those customers who are uncomfortable with the language on some of the magazine covers," Williams said....