diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/darkswarm/shop.css.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/darkswarm/shop.css.scss
index eb738fd6ba..71fe929f89 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/darkswarm/shop.css.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/darkswarm/shop.css.scss
@@ -114,12 +114,7 @@
     margin-bottom: 0px;
   }
 
-  .alert-box.shopfront-message {
-    border: 2px solid $clr-turquoise;
-    border-radius: 5px;
-    background-color: $clr-turquoise-light;
-    color: $clr-turquoise;
-
+  .shopfront-message {
     a {
       color: #0096ad;
 
diff --git a/app/views/shop/_messages.html.haml b/app/views/shop/_messages.html.haml
index 1bc1bdac8f..21639313ac 100644
--- a/app/views/shop/_messages.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shop/_messages.html.haml
@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@
 - elsif current_distributor.preferred_shopfront_message.present?
   .row
     .small-12.columns
-      .alert-box.shopfront-message{ "ofn-inline-alert" => true, ng: { show: "visible" } }
+      .shopfront-message
         = current_distributor.preferred_shopfront_message.html_safe
-        %a.close{ ng: { click: "close()" } } ×