Costco Bible Controversy Expands

Costco released an apology yesterday for Bibles at a California store being labeled as fiction. Now, a woman in Missouri has discovered Bibles labeled as fiction in a store in Manchester, Missouri.

Not only were the Bibles labeled fiction, they were put in a display with Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

Mary-Margaret Meyers-Walker said she offered to move the Bibles to the correct section of the store. She called the regional office and was told that the store apparently never received the memo to move the Bibles.

Meyers-Walker said she visited the store because she had heard of the controversy in California.

The local management refused to talk to St. Louis area station KMOX about the incident.

Costco Apologizes For Labeling Bibles Fiction

Costco has released a statement apologizing for at least one of their stores selling Bibles with a label on them that read “fiction.”

“We deeply regret the mislabeling of the Bible and meant no offense to anyone,” read an e-mail statement. “The buyer has let us know that this was an error and the books are being pulled off the shelves to be re-marked.”

Fox News says Costco sent them a statement claiming their distributor made a mislabeling mistake on a small percentage of Bibles but that the company should have spotted and corrected the mistake before the books were placed on store shelves.

A pastor in Simi Valley, California who snapped a picture of the Bible and posted it on twitter first discovered the labeling. The photo of the Bible went viral and led to hundreds of complaints to Costco’s offices.