>>Highly doubt it is about the race of the shopper. They are simply requiring immediate purchase of the products that are highly pilfered...I suspect a Caucasian buying one of the targeted high-theft item would have to pay at the special register as well<<
I don’t know about you, but I, as a white male, cannot make it through the week without my Afro-Sheen.
Of COURSE the issue s/b with the product and not the buyer (which is what I understood from the article). In this case the products are black-oriented. In my WM a few years ago they started locking up Similac and requiring a clerk to open it. I do not know why but from watching TV, it is also prevalent in black households.
Bottom line: WM will not tolerate net loss. The data for the products just say they are stolen more. The fact they happen to be for blacks is just fodder for the race pimps.
I don’t know about you, but I, as a white male, cannot make it through the week without my Afro-Sheen.