I thought we left that crap behind us...
Posted on 03/08/2021 3:48:50 AM PST by real saxophonist
‘I won’t go back’: New Walmart checkout policy called racially biased
by: Aimee Lewis
Updated: Mar 7, 2021
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — A new checkout policy at the Walmart in Centennial is under scrutiny for its security measures around beauty products for people of color.
The allegations of racial bias come almost a year after Walmart changed is practice on locking up beauty products for people of color at its stores.
“I honestly will probably not go back there again because of how I felt,” said Rachel from Aurora, who visited the Walmart store around 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning.
Rachel was purchasing shampoo in the beauty products for people of color aisle when allegedly stopped by a clerk who told her she needed to pay for the bottle at a special register near the back of the store before she could continue shopping in other parts of the Walmart store.
“I asked the sales associate, if I am purchasing Caucasian products do I need to do the same thing? She said no you can walk around the store with those products,” Rachel told the Problem Solvers. “I told her I had more shopping to do, she said it didn’t matter I still needed to pay for it back there.”
There’s also clearly more surveillance around that particular aisle. There are three cameras over the beauty products for people of color aisle and only one over the other shampoos and conditioners.
“Honestly, I was shocked, because this is 2021, racism and discrimination are still happening,” said Rachel. “It’s either one or the other. You monitor all haircare products, or you don’t. It’s not okay to point out one group.”
A Walmart spokesperson responded to the alleged incident saying:
“We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind at Walmart. We serve millions of customers weekly, crossing all demographics, and are focused on meeting their needs while providing the best shopping experience at each store.Like other retailers, we have policies in place that allow security for some items, such as cosmetics and other personal care products. In the case of this store, the entire section of products is under additional monitoring. However, we do not want those policies to create an unfriendly shopping environment for any individual customer. The goal is to keep the products our customers want in stock while providing a convenient and friendly shopping experience. We have followed up with the store to ensure those policies will be followed properly in the future, and to provide a welcoming environment for our customers.”
Rachel hopes to hear a personal apology from Walmart after calling its corporate stores but hasn’t yet heard back.
“The more we speak out about it and just let other people know what’s happening, maybe they will change the division and discrimination we have in the country right now,” said Rachel.
“I am hoping to hear an apology, I’m hoping to hear they will change this policy immediately, that’s what I’m hoping to hear.”
Also, the exchange with the employee, as described by Rachel, sounds like it was embellished, at the very least (more likely made up entirely).
“Multiculturalism” = multiple cultures. Culture = behavior.
I doubt the employees can outdo the local homeless.
Do they have spray-on Gorilla Glue?
I’m sure it was, at least, embellished.
Somehow, I've managed to move on.
ROFL!!!
...so Wal-Mart is taking steps to prevent ‘people of color’ from shoplifting...the NERVE of those bastards.
I thought we left that crap behind us...
If you buy an SD card, you have to pay for it at the electronics counter.
That is true at most retail operations.
Have you ever taken a look at the shelves and area around aerosol paints? People open them up and spray them to get a sample of the actual color.
They do it at my Walmart on occasion.....
I tell them no and keep walking.......
Once I bought it I own it......No warrant, no peekee...
At Sam's Club, I do allow it since I signed the membership in which I agreed.....
Did that help? NO. They'd paint shelves, ladders, fire extenguishers, floor...
I think the system was set up so one couldn't purchase spray paint without showing an ID.
I bet not only do they (a certain segment of that population) steal more they also scam more with their friends who might happen to work in retail to defraud stores more.
Should have made them show IQ.
The one by me in Maryland does the same thing if you have an item that’s not in a bag.
If I’m going to go through the trouble of stealing something, it’s not going to be a case of Mountain Dew.
I walk right past them and wish them a nice day. The 4th Amendment makes what they are doing illegal.
They are demanding to search my property. The moment money changed hands at the register, the items became legally my property and they have no right to make me prove it.
The onus is on them to prove that it is not my property and under the 5th Amendment, I don’t have to self-incriminate.
I'm sure Wal Mart will be a much more pleasant place without her.
“...security measures around beauty products for people of color.”
I was at Walmart just a few weeks ago and they made me pay for the printer ink I wanted immediately. I didn’t realize I could have cried about it and gone on tv or demand an apology. I did think it was strange but paid it and continued shipping.
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