Walmart to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout lines

Walmart is pulling Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout lines. 

The retail giant will remove the monthly women’s fashion magazine from checkout lines at 5,000 stores across the country although the magazine will still be available for purchase.

In a statement, Walmart spokesperson Meggan Kring said: ‘As with all products in our store, we continue to evaluate our assortment and make changes.  

‘Walmart will continue to offer Cosmopolitan to customers that wish to purchase the magazine, but it will no longer be located in the checkout aisles. While this was primarily a business decision, the concerns raised were heard.’

Retail giant Walmart will remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout lines at 5,000 stores across the country, although the monthly will still be available for purchase

Instigating the policy change is the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (Pictured, Cosmopolitan,November 2014)

he group has been working to remove Cosmo for store shelves for years, considering it to be the equivalent of porn (Pictured, Cosmopolitan, April 2013)

Instigating the policy change is the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. The group has been working to remove Cosmo (left and right) for store shelves for years, considering it to be the equivalent of porn

According to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), an organization that says it helped instigate the policy change, they are trying to protect children from being exposed to ‘graphic and often degrading and offensive material’.

‘This is what real change looks like in our #MeToo culture, and NCOSE is proud to work with a major corporation like Walmart to combat sexually exploitative influences in our society,’ said Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. 

‘Cosmo sends the same messages about female sexuality as Playboy. It places women’s value primarily on their ability to sexually satisfy a man and therefore plays into the same culture where men view and treat women as inanimate sex objects.’  

NCOSE was founded in the early 1960s by interfaith clergy members as a group called ‘Morality in Media’ before changing its name in 2015. 

The group has been working to remove Cosmo for store shelves for years, considering it to be the equivalent of porn.

This is not the first time the organization has worked to shield customers from the magazine (Pictured, Cosmopolitan, February 2018)

n 2015, NCOSE was behind a push to get Rite Aid and Delhaize America - which owns Hannaford Stores and Food Lion - to start selling Cosmo wrapped with covers (Pictured, Cosmopolitan, February 2015)

This is not the first time the organization has worked to shield customers from the magazine (left and right). In 2015, NCOSE was behind a push to get Rite Aid and Delhaize America – which owns Hannaford Stores and Food Lion – to start selling Cosmo wrapped with covers

In a statement, a Walmart spokesperson said: 'While this was primarily a business decision, the concerns raised were heard'

In a statement, a Walmart spokesperson said: ‘While this was primarily a business decision, the concerns raised were heard’

This is not the first time the organization has worked to shield customers from the magazine. 

In 2015, NCOSE was behind a push to get Rite Aid and Delhaize America – which owns Hannaford Stores and Food Lion – to start selling Cosmo wrapped with covers.

Additionally, in 2016 Marsh Supermarkets in Indiana and Ohio removed from checkout counters as well, according to Mashable.

Cosmopolitan lauds itself as the ‘best-selling young women’s magazine’ that focuses on fashion, sex advice, dating and relationships as well as celebrity news. 

 Cosmopolitan has not commented on the change.



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