German grocery store removes international foods to make a point about racism

German grocery store Edeka removed all the international foods from their shelves to make a point about racism.

Source: Twitter German grocery store Edeka removed all the international foods from their shelves to make a point about racism.

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A German supermarket made a bold move recently when they removed all of the international foods from their shelves to make a point about diversity and racism, according to reports.

Sven Schmidt shared photos of the empty shelves on Twitter. In his photos, small colorful signs with German phrases replaced the international foods. Customers were greeted with signs saying: "This shelf is pretty boring without diversity."

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Other signs said: "Our range now knows borders", "This is how empty a shelf is without foreigners" and "we will be poorer without diversity."

Schmidt's tweet was retweeted over 8,200 times and a similar post on Facebook was shared over 11,800 times. The shares had mixed reactions from people on social media.

Schmidt told The Independent, "Looking at all the mentions of hate and lack of understanding of other people I got, I'm happy that I posted it and showed my two cents against the racists, even though I know it was mainly about diversity."

"What's the point?" Manuel Seemann wrote on the Facebook post. "The poor people get nothing to buy. Please work normally as usual. Such actions with empty shelves harm our economy."

Another user immediately responded to his comment saying through Google Translator, "Nazis harm our economy, which Edeka impressively demonstrates here."

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Other users on social media called Edeka, one of the largest grocery store chains in Germany, for "polishing their reputation" and using this as an advertisement for their store. Chron.com has reached out to Edeka for comment on the matter, but have yet to hear back as of publication.