Amazon Will Halt Confederate Flag Sales, Following EBay
Confederate re-enactors position a gigantic Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State Capitol building on May 2, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina.
Photographer: Richard Ellis/Getty ImagesAmazon will pull Confederate flags and themed items from its Web store, a person with knowledge of the matter said, yielding to pressure after Wal-Mart, EBay and Sears said they’d stop selling the merchandise. Alibaba soon followed.
Amazon.com Inc.’s Facebook page lit up with demands from customers to cease selling items with the Southern rebel image or risk losing business. Controversy surrounding the Confederate flag intensified after Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old charged in the massacre of nine black worshipers in a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, was shown posing for pictures with it.