Wal-Mart apologizes for offering "Fat Girl Costumes" for Halloween

Walmart found itself sending apology tweet after apology tweet Monday after the Twitterverse raked it over the coals for a major goof on its website.

For whatever inexplicable reason, the retail giant's site featured a Halloween category, titled "Fat Girl Costumes."

You won't find it there now, thank goodness, but it stayed there for a large part of the morning -- and long enough for multiple screen grabs.

Truth in advertising, not always the best idea #walmart #fatgirlcostumes #Halloween pic.twitter.com/dz3HS1pUnf
— Michelle Bryson (@madbryson) October 27, 2014

The presence of the category was first reported by Jezebel, which in turn was alerted by a reader who stumbled upon it while looking for costumes.

It was basically a collection of costumes that you'd usually find on the site's plus-size women's section.

After Twitter users complained in droves, Wal-Mart took down the section and sent out multiple apology tweets.

eddie wrote:Wow that's a bit stupid of them! Why not go the whole hog and have a section for "anorexic girls" also?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Wow that's a bit stupid of them! Why not go the whole hog and have a section for "anorexic girls" also?

It's so dumb it makes me wonder if some of the web design isn't being outsourced to China or somewhere where they don't really get the nuances of English ...

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Wow that's a bit stupid of them! Why not go the whole hog and have a section for "anorexic girls" also?

It's so dumb it makes me wonder if some of the web design isn't being outsourced to China or somewhere where they don't really get the nuances of English ...

You're probably right.
And I don't say that often.

eddie wrote: