STOP SHOE COMPANIES AND RETAILERS SUCH AS WAL-MART, KENNETH COLE, SAKS, TOMS, WHOLE FOODS, AND OTHER RETAILERS FROM PUTTING RAT REPELLENT IN OUR SHOE BOXES!
Did you know that many brands of popular and expensive shoes, including infant and children’s shoes arrive in the U.S. inside boxes containing chemicals which is an active ingredient in rat repellent? Please take a moment to call the retailers below and ask them to stop now.
Here’s the inside story: most shoes shipped to the United States travel long distances by cargo ship, and need protection from the sea environment. In order to prevent damage, shoe companies place chemically treated stickers inside shoe boxes to help prevent mold and fungus. These stickers are supposed to be tested and approved by the EPA as safe, but most are not. These unapproved chemical stickers fail to identify the potentially dangerous, harmful ingredients they may contain and are marked simply with the words “anti-mold”.
Consumers like you are subjected to potential dangers when shoe companies use unregistered, unproven, and untested chemical stickers in their shoe boxes. We need to stop these unapproved chemical stickers from entering our homes.
Unapproved chemical stickers are used in top retailers like Wal-Mart, Kenneth Cole, Saks, Macys, TOMS, Whole Foods, Nordstrom’s, Dillard’s, Bob Ton, Belk, Amazon, Zappos, TJX, Footlocker, and other retailers; and in popular brands such as:
• Aerosoles
• Born
• Calvin Klein
• Coach
• ECCO
• Eurosoft
• Isola
• Kenneth Cole
• Liz Claiborne
• Minnetonka
• Rocket Dog
• Roxy
• Sofft Shoe Co.
• Spoftspots
• Vera Wang
Consumers and workers handling these materials have a false sense of comfort and security.
These boxes are often later used to store baseball cards, family photos or even small pets.
LA Times: Suit alleges shoe boxes contain ingredients in rat repellent
These stickers come in a number of colors, sizes and names – so how does the consumer know which are registered with the EPA and which are not?
According to news reports, one ingredient of these antimicrobial stickers not registered with the EPA is
allyl isothiocyanate, a chemical used in rodent and insect repellents, in crop chemicals and fumigants, and in defense sprays.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!
Please call the retailers below. Tell them to ask their suppliers to stop buying shoes packaged with unapproved chemical stickers.
CONTACT THE RETAILERS
Wal-Mart
William S. Simon
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
(479) 273-4000
Doug McMillon
President and CEO, Walmart International
Macys
Timothy Adams
Chief Private Brand Officer
William Allen
Chief Human Resources Officer
Jeffrey Gennette
President
Saks Fifth Avenue
Ronald L. Frasch
President
(212) 940-5305
Janine Bolin
Customer Relations Liason
(865) 981-9541
Stephen I. Sadove
CEO
(212) 940-5305
Whole Foods
Walter Robb
CEO
John Mackey
CEO
Nordstrom
Erik B. Nordstrom
Executive Vice President, Director and President of Stores
(206) 628-2111
Peter E. Nordstrom
Executive Vice President, Director and President of Merchandising
(206) 628-2111
Blake W. Nordstrom
Principal Executive Officer, President and Director
(206) 628-2111
Dillard’s
William Dillard
CEO
(501) 376-5200
Alex Dillard
President
(501) 376-5200
Bon-Ton
Brendan Hoffman
CEO
Belk
Thomas Belk Jr
CEO
(704) 357-1000
Amazon
Dave Clark
VP Worldwide Operations and Customer Service
(206)266-1000
Jeffrey Wilke, Senior Vice President – Consumer Business
Jeffrey Bezos, founder and CEO
Zappos
Tony Hsieh
CEO
ceo@zappos.com
TJX
Ernie Herrman
President
(508) 390-1000
Jeffrey Naylor
Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
(508) 390-1000
Carol M. Meyrowitz
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(508) 390-1000
Footlocker
Ken Hicks
CEO
(212) 720-3700