Posted on 01/27/2018 1:38:37 PM PST by kevcol
"[She] discovered that the cream and other hair products meant for African Americans had been locked away behind glass shelves and were segregated from products for non-African Americans,'
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"I was angry, sad, frustrated, and humiliated all at the same time. It was so emotional it's hard to describe. I know there is a lot of racism out there, but I have never been faced with it up close."
(Excerpt) Read more at wcpo.com ...
Oh, yes! Gloria Allred is the lawyer. What a disgusting POS attorney!
At one of the dollar stores in the nearby city ... they keep all the Tide products locked up. Gain, no. Arm & Hammer, no. Fabuloso and Suavitel ... no. Just Tide.
And I haven’t seen it this way at other stores, only in one store in one neighborhood.
Weird.
Walmart segregates and locks up Gillette razors.
What’s the point?
5.56mm
I’m 99% sure that these items weren’t locked up until AFTER they started disappearing from shelves at significantly disproportionate rates.
And I am angry, sad, frustrated and humiliated whenever I purchase a can of spray paint. And when I purchase jewelry at a local thrift store I have to pick it up at the cash register rather than continue shopping with it. And I am very melanin deprived with blue eyes. I don’t know if I will ever get over it./sarc
and I’d bet the shrinkage of the black-oriented product lines are 30X what it is for anything else.
Well if the shrinkage rate on those products weren’t so damned high, they wouldn’t be locked up now would they.....
When products bypass the register on their way out, they lock them up....
My Fred Meyer used to sell booze on open shelves; now, all but the cheap stuff is locked up.
I like electronics.
Stores sometimes have security locks on electronic stuff, like Walgreens and CVS.
Why?
Because they are high targets for theft.
Annoying? Yes. But I don’t have to buy it if I don’t want to go through the hassle of getting someone to just come over and get me something
” (KGTV) - Attorney Gloria Allred announced Friday a lawsuit against Walmart over discrimination allegations stemming from African-American hair products. “
I wondered what Gloria Allred’s next career move was going to be....
They should just unlock them, and say if their shrinkage rate goes past a certain threshold they will no longer carry the item... let them sit and spin.
Ya, like Oprah, Michelle Obama, etc. What’s up with that?
In Oprah’s early years on TV, she had a full Afro at one time, if I recall correctly.
I went to buy $2 Suave body wash at Walgreen’s last month - All the body wash brands and types were locked up.
Look! We ALL know that it is duh HONKIES dat be stealin’ duh “African-American” hair products to be “perpetutating duh myff” dat black.. er, “Afro-American” .. people be thievin’ thugs.
There is an easy response, stop selling hair care products that get stolen.
But then, they would be accused of racism for not carrying those products anymore. They can’t win.
I went into our local grocery store to get visine an it was locked up. I got them to open the cabinet and then they carried it to the register, the same as the did for her.
Should I cry foul?
When cash registers and checkout stands are discriminated against, products are put under lock and key.
They should point to theft rates for various products, and explain why those products were kept under lock and key. They could say they analyze that decision by sku number, not by reference to the race of those who use it. I am sure Walmart does not keep statistics breaking down product purchases by race.
What could possibly be next?
A lawsuit claiming racism because the watermelon is NOT locked up?
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