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Wal-Mart Drops Fake Tommy Hilfiger

  • Al Norman
  • October 13, 1998
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You better check carefully that cool Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt you bought at Wal-Mart or Sams. According to Hilfiger, Wal-Mart has knowingly sold at least seven styles of counterfeit Tommy Hilfiger goods, including T-shirts and socks. A federal judge in US.District Court in New York found Wal-Mart in contempt for continuing the sell the fake items, even after the company agreed to stop carrying phony Tommy. The Judge said that Wal-Mart has to recall all the phony goods by sending letters to people who bought the stuff, and to post signs in their stores. Wal-Mart has also been ordered to give Hilfiger an inventory of all the knock offs it has, and return the goods to Tommy so they can have a great bonfire! Hilfiger told the Associated Press that it was “gratified” that the court tripped up Wal-Mart, and that the court recognized a “company of Wal-Mart’s size and stature knowingly sells counterfeit goods.” Wal-Mart responded with typical humility, noting that it doesn’t sell any more Hilfiger goods, and that it has already filed an appeal of the case. Four years ago, Wal-mart tangled with Hilfiger over the use of the latter’s crest logo. Wal-Mart agreed at the time not to use that logo anymore. Customers officials said that Wal-Mart was importing fake Hilfiger shirts into the country. In 1996, Wal-Mart consented to a permanent injunction against knowingly and intentionally using counterfeit Hilfiger trademarks. Over a year ago, Wal-Mart was sued by Nike for infringing on their patent for an Air Mada shoe. Wal-Mart’s Nike imitation was made in Korea.Wal-Mart was ordered by a court to pay Nike $6 million for patent violations.

Hey, buy cheap, take your chances! Maybe that designer label you saw at Wal-Mart really isn’t the real McCoy. What can you say about a company that gets caught counterfeiting goods, and keeps on doing it! These federal judges are being paid good salaries by American taxpayers to sit and listen to Wal-Mart lawyers repeatedly deny they have done anything wrong by selling Nikes or Hilfigers that are phony. How much money have we spent on court cases like this, where Wal-Mart gets cited for contempt for selling phony goods. Next time you go into a Wal-Mart, ask the clerk for a phony Tommy Hilfiger shirt. Tell her your tax dollars helped to make it all possible. Impress your friends with phony goods from Wal-Mart!

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Al Norman first achieved national attention in October of 1993 when he successfully stopped Wal-Mart from locating in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Almost 3 decades later they is still not Wal-Mart in Greenfield. Norman has appeared on 60 Minutes, was featured in three films, wrote 3 books about Wal-Mart, and gained widespread media attention from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune magazine. Al has traveled throughout the U.S., Barbados, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and Japan, helping dozens of local coalitions fight off unwanted sprawl development. 60 Minutes called Al “the guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement.”

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