US retailers pull Confederate flag

RETAIL giants Walmart and Amazon have decided to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise in the wake of the Charleston church shootings.

WALMART and Amazon will no longer stock merchandise bearing the Confederate flag after the shooting deaths of nine people in a church in the US town of Charleston.

THE decision by the retail giants - which have been joined by eBay, Sears and Kmart - comes in a growing movement against what critics say is a symbol of racism in the American South.