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Wrapping paper that contains a swastika pattern in its trim has been recalled from Walgreens stores after an outraged California shopper noticed it.
In many cultures the swastika was once a symbol of hope, before the Nazis degraded it to representing death and destruction.

Wrapping paper that contains a swastika pattern in its trim is being recalled from stores across the United States, after an outraged California shopper noticed it, ABC News reported on Monday.

Cheryl Shapiro was shopping in a Walgreen’s store on December 4 in Northridge, California, when she stopped to look at some rolls of gift wrap. As the former interior designer gazed at them, her eyes widened at a blue and silver roll, noticing the swastikas engraved in it design.

“It blew me away,” Shapiro told ABC News. “What the hell was that doing on there?”

“I said, ‘I want it out of the store, but I wanted this to go national. I want this out of the stores nationally,'” she added.

The manager of the store removed the two rolls of the gift wrap from the rack and alerted the store’s corporate headquarters, said Shapiro.

“We’re in the process of removing the product from our stores,” Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso told ABC News, adding that the company has initiated a process to prevent customers from purchasing the gift wrap at registers.

The paper, adorned with two shades of blue and a silver shade, carries a Hallmark licensing tag. Hallmark did not return calls to ABC News for comment.

Shapiro said she is impressed with how fast Walgreens responded to the issue, and that it has not ruined her holiday spirit.

“Not at all. We’re much bigger than that. It made us stronger,” she told ABC News.

The wrapping paper is the latest item to be recalled because of cultural links to the Nazis or the Holocaust.

At the end of November, a department store in Sweden received complaints from customers that a toy soldier selection appeared to bear Nazi symbols. The store quickly removed the toys from the shelves.

In October, Mango, a popular European women’s brand, debuted a shirtcovered in tiny lightning bolts reminiscent of the SS logo. After outrage was raised by a German MEP and on social media, the company expressed “regret” over the design.

In August, fashion giant ZARA debuted a “sheriff” shirt for children clearly resembling the uniform worn by concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust – replete with blue stripes and a yellow star. Zara Israel apologized for the shirt and promised it would be taken off the shelves.        (INN)

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