New Jersey Wal-Mart announcer asks "all Black people" to leave the store

Shoppers in the Washington Township store said a manager quickly got on the public-address system and apologized for the announcement.

It was unclear whether a rogue patron or an employee was responsible for the remark.

The incident drew angry comments by many customers.

"I depended on Wal-Mart for all my needs, because the store has pretty much everything you could want," patron Patricia Covington said. "But until this issue is addressed in a way I'm comfortable with, I can't walk through those doors again."

Executives at the Arkansas-based company said that the announcement was "unacceptable" and that they're trying to find out who made it and how it could have happened.

"We are just as appalled by this incident as our customers," Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said in a statement. "Whoever did this is just wrong and acted in an inappropriate manner. Clearly, this is completely unacceptable to us and to our customers."