As of Friday, Burlington (formerly known as the Burlington Coat Factory) removed Ivanka Trump brand products from its website. According to Shannon Coulter,
the woman behind the #GrabYourWallet movement, there had previously
been 13 Ivanka Trump items for sale online — and then suddenly they were
all gone.
Burlington Coat factory suddenly has zero Ivanka items on its web site. At last check on 2/7 there were 13. Right now there are zero. pic.twitter.com/IMatEXzQNe— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) February 11, 2017
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| Ivanka Trump,the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump and his first wife. |
The brand has yet to give a reason for the sudden removal. Yahoo Style reached out to Burlington for comment.
Burlington
follows other brands that have stopped stocking Ivanka Trump products,
with Nordstrom being the first to pull support. Below, a comprehensive
list of where retailers stand.
Nordstrom
Citing “poor sales,” Nordstrom announced
it would stop selling Ivanka Trump products on Feb. 3. While the
decision came on the heels of the president’s executive order to ban
immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, the company insisted
that it had made a business decision. Yet behind the scenes, a company memo expressed support for immigrants and highlighted its diverse employee pool. A source close to Ivanka told Refinery29
of the decision, “They couldn’t handle the political pressure, someone
new came in, and there was a change in the attitude toward the brand.”
TJ Maxx and Marshalls
The
parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, TJX Companies, issued an
internal memo to employees telling them to toss Ivanka Trump display
signs in the trash and mix her remaining merchandise in with other
brands, rather than displaying her products on separate racks, according
to The New York Times, who received a copy of the memo.
“Effective
immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features
and mix into the runs [regular racks where most clothes are placed],”
stated the note, which was confirmed by Doreen Thompson, a spokeswoman
for the TJX Companies, according to The New York Times. “All Ivanka Trump signs should be discarded.”
HSN and Shop Style
On Tuesday, #GrabYourWallet founder Sharon Coulter confirmed to media outlet Mic that
Ivanka- and Donald-branded products were completely pulled from HSN and
that ShopStyle was in the process of following suit.
The two brands had been previously placed on the infamous #GrabYourWallet boycott
list — an anti-Trump movement that launched in October after the
president’s 2005 “Grab her by the p****” comments were publicized. The
movement keeps tabs on companies that sell Trump-branded products and
encourages people to boycott them, hitting their bottom lines as a
political statement. Coulter predicted that by Tuesday, ShopStyle would
be removed from the boycott list.
Neiman Marcus
According to fashion site Racked,
the department store Neiman Marcus dropped Ivanka Trump’s jewelry line
from its website, including baubles from its New Jersey store. The 21
items on sale vanished, along with any mention of Ivanka on Neiman
Marcus’s list of designers. On Feb. 3, the store sent the following
statement to Racked: “Based on productivity we continuously assess
whether our brands are carried in stores, on our website, or both.”
Belk
During
the first weekend in February, the nationwide department store scrubbed
Ivanka’s name from its search engine. One exception: Ivanka’s dresses
and coats are still available in one Charlotte, N.C., store, according
to Racked.
On Monday, Belk emailed the following statement to Racked: “We
continually review our assortment and the performance of the brands we
carry. And we make adjustments as part of our normal course of business
operations.”
Shoes.com
The
Canadian shoe retailer tweeted its decision to abandon Ivanka Trump
back in November as a result of the #GrabYourWallet boycott: “We
understand and your voices have been heard. We have removed the products
from our website.” A spokesperson for Ivanka defended the company in a
statement to Footwear News:
“While Shoes.com was an inconsequential part of our business, they were
not fulfilling their end of the contract and parting was inevitable.”
Jet.com
The discount shopping website is in the process of pulling Ivanka’s clothing and fragrance, according to Mic. Yet, there’s no shortage of MAGA hats and F*** Trump shirts available for purchase.
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