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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,457 posts) Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:28 PM Jul 2020

Fact check: Kroger is not charging customers a Black Lives Matter tax

The claim: Kroger is charging a BLM tax.

A Facebook post showing a Kroger receipt with an added "BLM tax" has gone viral, with over a thousand shares as people believe the supermarket is charging people in the name of Black Lives Matter.

Among those sharing the doctored image was the page Coalition of Conservative Women, which noted, "Please be careful nor to patronize any establishment that places a bogus surcharge." USA TODAY has reached out to the page for a comment.

The receipt was faked

"The post that’s circulating with a BLM receipt code is a dupe. It’s a photoshopped version of ... the coin shortage code/language on the original receipt," Kristal Howard, Kroger head of corporate communications, told USA TODAY in an email.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fact-check-kroger-is-not-charging-customers-a-black-lives-matter-tax/ar-BB17f1YK?li=BBnb7Kz

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Fact check: Kroger is not charging customers a Black Lives Matter tax (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP

They need to make up things like this so they can claim victimhood JI7 Jul 2020 #1

Russian bots jpak Jul 2020 #2

Dumbass wingnuts will fall for any fake news. That's how we got in this damned mess. nt Lisa0825 Jul 2020 #3

This seems to tie in with PBS Frontline tomorrow: United States of Conspiracy Arkansas Granny Jul 2020 #4

What I read into this was anyone who had a BLM shirt would pay extra. CaptYossarian Jul 2020 #5

Hmmmmm. I was just in my King Sooper's (Kroger) on Sat. Just rechecked my receipt. NO "blm" niyad Jul 2020 #6

JI7

(89,288 posts)

1. They need to make up things like this so they can claim victimhood

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:31 PM

Jul 2020

jpak

(41,760 posts)

2. Russian bots

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:33 PM

Jul 2020

This why I don't do FB

Lisa0825

(14,487 posts)

3. Dumbass wingnuts will fall for any fake news. That's how we got in this damned mess. nt

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Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:36 PM

Jul 2020

Arkansas Granny

(31,542 posts)

4. This seems to tie in with PBS Frontline tomorrow: United States of Conspiracy

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:41 PM

Jul 2020

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/united-states-of-conspiracy/

How trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. FRONTLINE examines the alliance of conspiracy entrepreneur Alex Jones, Trump advisor Roger Stone, and the president, and their role in the battle over truth and lies.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

5. What I read into this was anyone who had a BLM shirt would pay extra.

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Mon Jul 27, 2020, 07:48 PM

Jul 2020

niyad

(113,930 posts)

6. Hmmmmm. I was just in my King Sooper's (Kroger) on Sat. Just rechecked my receipt. NO "blm"