United Supermarkets Refuses to Sell Rolling Stone Issue


Thu. July 18th, 2013 - by Eric Anderson

<p>United Supermarkets is refusing to sell the controversial August issue of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">“This was an easy business decision for us,” said Robert Taylor, CEO of United Supermarkets, LLC. “To do anything that would glorify terrorist behavior simply goes against what our company stands for.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">United joins retailers across the nation in choosing not to sell the issues scheduled to be released on Friday, July 19.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Rolling Stone is only available at a limited number of United Supermarkets, Market Street, Amigos and United Express locations.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.unitedtexas.com/" target="_new">United</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">