Twitter User Calls Out Wal-Mart for Selling 'Maryland’ Shirts Featuring Wrong State

States are like snowflakes: Though some may appear to resemble each other from afar, each has its own unique shape, a basic geographical fact that one company had to learn the hard way.

Twitter user Samantha Ficco tweeted at Wal-Mart last week after discovering that the store was selling a University of Maryland T-shirt featuring an outline of the state of Massachusetts. The shirt included a large white “M” and the word “Terps” (short for Terrapins, the UMD mascot) on a red outline of the New England state.

But Ficco, who was not fooled by the prominent UMD logo and colors, informed the company of the mistake.

At first, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman named Marie defended the shape’s accuracy:

@Samficco The state of Maryland is shaped to dip down on the right hand side which includes the word "Terps" for the team. -Marie

— Walmart (@Walmart) March 31, 2016

@Samficco On the map, MA and MD are shaped somewhat similarly with the exception of that dip. Thanks for reaching out, Samantha! -Marie

— Walmart (@Walmart)

March 31, 2016

But Twitter users were not buying the excuses:

@Walmart @Samficco Really Walmart? pic.twitter.com/1pcVcABl5t

— Mark Andrade (@RaiderMark) April 4, 2016

@Walmart @Samficco Come on! That's a horrible attempt at covering up a mistake. Look at it! Just admit the mistake. It looks better.

— Ericaaa (@LempkeE)

April 3, 2016

@Walmart oh my god this is one of the dumbest tweets ever

— Andrew Wiseman (@wisemana) April 5, 2016

@Walmart @Samficco sooooooo basically geography doesn't matter? Got it! Suck it elementary teachers cause walmart says so!

— Joe (@_Joebacca_) April 3, 2016

@Walmart @Samficco As a Maryland grad who lives in Boston, I would really like to purchase this abomination. Available via website?

— chris (@cpcollin) April 4, 2016

A few days later, a different spokesperson, Sonny, retracted the previous comments and offered an embarrassed apology:

@Samficco We’re so embarrassed we may never stick our head out of our shell again! Thanks for guiding this lost Terrapin back to MD! -Sonny

— Walmart (@Walmart) April 4, 2016

Another Twitter user named Victoria Owens apparently tweeted a photo of the same shirt last summer, though she refrained from tagging Wal-Mart: