“There’s nothing you can’t find at Walmart”, you might think. Well, starting with 2023, there are a couple of items that you won’t find anymore. In fact, you have probably noticed that a few items that once graced the shelves of Walmart are now gone.

If so, we will gladly confirm your suspicion. In fact, there’s an interesting story behind each disappearance, and you’ll find out more in this article. Some of these products are now labeled as dangerous, unpopular, or simply inappropriate. As they got the proverbial boot, you will never see them again in any Walmart store. Curious to know more? Find out on the next page!

E-cigarettes

Vaping was initially touted as a tool that was meant to help people quit smoking. However, because of growing concerns regarding the dangers of vaping, the wide majority of retailers decided to cut back on selling these e-cigarettes and their cartridges.

Back in September 2019, Walmart declared that it will halt all sales of e-cigarettes the minute its current inventory will be sold. This was right after they committed to raising the age for buying e-cigarettes and any other vaping products to 21 years, but also stopped selling the fruit and dessert-flavored vaping liquids. Also, did you know that regular cigarettes are now on the list of things that Costco will never sell again?

Co*aine Santa sweater

Probably one of the most well-known products that Walmart ever stocked was a hideous Christmas sweater that had “Let it Snow” written on it, and a picture with Santa with three lines of co*aine on the table in front of him.

The infamous sweater was completely pulled from Walmart’s website back in 2019. However, it was rapidly resurrected on Amazon, where it instantly became the hit pack for ugly-sweater holiday parties the same year. Walmart had many similar and bizarre products, but for the moment, they decided to stop selling this particular one, and their reasons are pretty obvious.

Handguns and ammunition

After a couple of mass shootings that took place at Walmart centers in Mississippi and Texas that murdered 24 people, the company decided to stop selling handguns, ammunition, and short-barrel rifles in all stores.

Even so, don’t imagine that Walmart fully terminated the gun business, as they are still selling long-barrel deer rifles and shotguns, and…ammunition for them. However, it seems that this particular move reduced Walmart’s sales of gun-and-ammunitions from 20 percent to 9 percent. Perhaps, in the near future, they will reconsider this particular aspect of their business too.

Metro 7 clothes

One of Walmart’s first attempts to make its own fashion-forward clothing was this very private-label brand, which was launched in 2005 alongside some splashy ad campaigns in Vogue. Even so, as the line managed to do pretty well in some stores where it was originally launched, Metro 7 failed miserably to catch attention in the wide majority of Walmart stores.

So the company ultimately decided to shut it down. However, it seems that Walmart had more success with private labels such as Faded Glory.

Water Gremlin products

Water Gremlin is a Minnesota-based company that makes lead fishing sinkers. Unfortunately, it completely fell out of favor with Walmart at the end of 2019, as they later discovered that the kids of factory workers were found with high levels of lead in their blood, which was directly linked to their parents’ exposure to the products, as Minnesota Public Radio has shown.

White Stag

As a signature private fashion label that once worked for Walmart, the White Stag was one of the three store brands (alongside Faded Glory and Just My Size), that Walmart decided to pull from its shelves in 2018.

This decision was made because Walmart wanted to make room for other brands, such as Time and Tru for women, Terra & Sky for plus size, and Wonder Nation for the little ones. While you can still find Faded Glory and Just My Size on Walmart’s website, White Stag products have completely disappeared from Walmart.

“Naughty Leopard” costumes for the little ones

It can be a bit tricky at times to find the proper Halloween costume that isn’t too “sexy”, especially those for women and teens. In fact, even classic characters like Elmo and Hello Kitty have received a particular “naughty” treatment from costume companies.

Well, when Walmart came with a “Naughty Leopard” costume for toddler sizes back in 2013, the wide majority of customers had many complaints about the word “naughty” in the costume’s description. The costume looked normal and it even had an innocent look, so the word that was attributed to it didn’t seem to have anything to do with it. That’s why they decided to pull the costume from the shelves.

Zantac

Walmart was one of the many retailers, such as CVS Health, Walgreens, and Rite Aid, that decided to pull the heartburn drug Zantac (and anything else that might include its active ingredient, ranitidine), after it has been discovered that the drugs had dangerous contaminants in their ingredients.

They found low levels of a rather probable cancer-causing chemical, so many prescription blood pressure medications were pulled off the market last year.

Inappropriate teen underwear

Back in the 2007 holiday season, Walmart took an interesting turn in terms of underwear for teenagers. They sold hot-pink bikinis that were emblazoned with “who needs credit cards” on the front, and “when you have Santa” on the back. Well, as you can imagine, thousands of outraged parents started a huge rant for obvious reasons, and the panties were soon stripped from the shelves.

Snack subscriptions

Subscription snack boxes could be the next thing on the market, but Walmart’s Goodies monthly snack subscription definitely went a little bit too far. It was launched in late 2012, and that’s when Goodies shipped a box full of eight sample-sized snacks a month for only $7.

However, after a year of beta testing, Walmart soon came to the conclusion that the project didn’t go as well as it thought. Naturally, Walmart is one of the many stores that have grocery pickup and delivery.

“Someday a woman will be president” famous T-shirts

In 1995, Walmart decided on a major flip-flop with one of its items, which was a shirt that featured Dennis the Menace character Margaret and the phrase: “someday a woman will be president!”. At first, Walmart decided to stock it, but it soon came to the conclusion that the T-shirts need to be pulled from the shelves, as it soon realized that the “message went against their own philosophy of family values” as the Washington Post showed.

After a whole nationwide uproar, Walmart came back to its original decision to restock the shirts, ordering no less than 30,000 more to place in each of its stores. Nowadays, you can’t find that shirt at Walmart, but you can find shirts for actual female presidential contenders, such as Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, but also Amy Klobuchar.

Aside from these items that you won’t find anymore, there are also some things that you SHOULDN’T buy from Walmart, some of which are Great Value brand food, luxury perfumes, organic foods, and many other things. If you found this article to be useful, then we have many other things on our website that will definitely catch your attention, such as 6 New Ways Retirees Can Save On Taxes This Season