Costco has apologized for selling Bibles labeled “fiction” in one of the major retailer’s stores.
In a statement to Fox News, Costco said some of the copies were improperly labeled “$14.99 Fiction” before being shipped to a store in Simi Valley, Calif.
“Costco’s distributor mislabeled a small percentage of the Bibles, however, we take responsibility and should have caught the mistake. We are correcting this with them for future distribution,” the company said. ”We greatly apologize for the error.”
Costco said all of the Bibles were promptly relabeled.
The apology comes after California Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach noticed the Bible designation while shopping at the store on Friday and tweeted a picture of it out to his followers.
While I accept their apology and tend to believe that it probably was an accident; can you imagine the response had it been the ‘Koran’?