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Because Swastikas almost never go well with Hanukah, Walgreens has pulled some controversial wallpaper off its shelves.

A patron named Cheryl Shapiro told The Los Angeles Daily News that she was wandering around the store when she noticed a design hidden in a blue-and-silver wrapping paper pattern that looked suspiciously liked this infamous Nazi symbol.

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The 63-year-old grandmother says she first called her rabbi about the issue, but it was Shabbat afternoon, so he wouldn’t answer his phone.

She therefore went to the manager of the store to complain about the item.

"I told them I wanted this taken off the shelves immediately – not just your store, but national," Shapiro told a local NBC affiliate. "I was really putting my foot down because I was appalled by this."

 

The national chain quickly responded by yanking the wrapping paper from all of its stores.

"We have implemented a process to prevent the product from being sold at the register as we remove the item from our stores," Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso tells The Huffington Post.

This isn’t the first instance of a Swastika causing problems for a national chain.

In August, a McDonald’s employee was fired for making this anti-Semitic symbol out of butter and cooking it into a chicken sandwich bun.