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They can exist in the same universe because - I've been lead to believe (I can't say for sure as I've never been there) - there's more than one person of each race in America. It's not a contradiction because different people are annoyed by different things?

The stupidest thing about it all, really, is that the first one is quite blatantly just a sales oversight - the dolls were clearly marked as being the same price pre-sale but the discounted price wasn't applied across the whole range so only the "classic" white barbie doll was reduced? If the standard price was different that would be another discussion.

The second one, to be honest, does have wider implications and if Walmart was using their brains instead of just algorithms they would have recognised that. Yes, one is reduced to clear because of not selling as well, but that's not necessarily a good thing to point out.