With less than two weeks to go for the year’s most crucial time for retailers, Wal-Mart is dealing with an embarrassment of sorts, because of a recently-posted online video showing its employees at a Kentucky store hurling iPads in the air as well as slamming them on the ground.

Interestingly, the video not only shows the local staff in the stockroom of a Pikeville, Kentucky, Wal-Mart store tossing around the boxed iPads, but also has one of these employees candidly telling Wal-Mart shoppers: "This is why you don't buy an iPad from Wal-Mart.”

The video – which was posted on Facebook, YouTube, and consumer websites – also shows the employees making an overt reference to the number of iPads which they have tossed like frisbees and thrown on the storeroom’s concrete floor.

Noting that the employees shown in the video are some of the nightshift associates at the store, and adding that these associates apparently destroyed Wal-Mart merchandise in the back of the store in August, a Wal-Mart spokesperson said that the “unfortunate incident” has “embarrassed” the bigwig retailer.

Further revealing that the associates seen in the video no longer work for Wal-Mart, the spokesperson said that there have thus far been no cases of return of any of the iPads sold by the retailer; and added: “We stand behind our merchandise and our associates work very hard to take proper care and handling of the products we put on our shelves."