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‘I won’t go back’: New Walmart checkout policy called racially biased
KDVR ^ | Mar 7, 2021 | Aimee Lewis

Posted on 03/08/2021 3:48:50 AM PST by real saxophonist

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To: freedumb2003

I don’t know about you, but I, as a white male, cannot make it through the week without my Afro-Sheen.


Clever ;)


121 posted on 03/08/2021 8:52:09 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (Republicans will get the government they deserve if they do nothing :()
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To: Jewbacca

So Racist computers are the problem.

White people did invent them.

I would be so insulted, I would move back to Africa.


122 posted on 03/08/2021 8:55:52 AM PST by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: rarestia

“Facts and statistics are racist, don’tcha know?”

Yeah, especially when it comes for the beauty products for people of color located in the beauty products for people of color aisle.

Separate but equal? Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace. It was reversed in 1954. So we haven’t had a separate but equal status for over 65 years. Therefore, why is there a people of color aisle at all? And if one is needed, why isn’t there a Caucasian aisle next to it determined that way. Isn’t the action of using racial actions to sell products just as racial as anything else no matter which way it leans?

wy69


123 posted on 03/08/2021 8:59:29 AM PST by whitney69
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To: Dutch Boy

There is a rest home a couple miles away from the Food Lion. It was actually a COVID dumpster last march.


124 posted on 03/08/2021 9:37:18 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: real saxophonist

Well, no.... doesn’t mean we can’t, though!


125 posted on 03/08/2021 11:04:06 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: deport

yeah, it’s added into the products you purchase. someone has to subsidize it.


126 posted on 03/08/2021 11:07:20 AM PST by russdawg
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To: real saxophonist

Try to buy an iphone without paying for it at “a register in back”..... black or white.


127 posted on 03/08/2021 11:11:48 AM PST by kjam22
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To: I want the USA back

You are correct. The tags, cameras, special clerks, etc cost money.

They only go to that expense to save the greater expense of theft.

It’s all done by computer.

Tools, some parts, and some toys have the same issue.


128 posted on 03/08/2021 11:14:55 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: real saxophonist

My local Walmart here in eastern Washington has been doing this for about the last 3 years.

We have about a 70+ % local Hispanic population and so most of their employees were Hispanic. During the early 2000’s that store was the #1 employee theft store in the nation. They would hold down the price check button and scan items and load up shopping carts full of everything. It nearly wiped them out.

If you walk in to the store you think you are in Tijuana. and the place is filthy.


129 posted on 03/08/2021 11:24:21 AM PST by shotgun
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To: real saxophonist
Back when they had ammo, you had to pay for it at the Sporting Goods counter. If you buy an SD card, you have to pay for it at the electronics counter.

I am sorry.

In Woke Amerika, Logic is no longer allowed, let alone empirical reasoning!

130 posted on 03/08/2021 1:35:29 PM PST by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: real saxophonist

Maybe she should consider that products were available for her to purchase, thanks to this policy.


131 posted on 03/08/2021 1:43:28 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: real saxophonist

Our Walmart is an equal-opportunity locker-up of all beauty products for all skin tones. It’s a pain in the keister, so I go to the drug store instead.


132 posted on 03/08/2021 5:53:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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To: setter

I’m seeing that more and more in my area for small items that are easy to enclose; many people from neighboring Newark shop here because you can’t operate stores there.


133 posted on 03/09/2021 2:57:05 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: real saxophonist

“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.”


So the products themselves are a race?

Because it nothing in that account said she was being discriminated against by race. The discrimination was based upon products purchased, and presumably applies to anyone purchasing that product regardless of their race.


134 posted on 03/09/2021 11:16:30 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: freedumb2003

If the data say blacks steal substantially more hair products than non bkacks, it is not a stereotype, it is a trend.


It’s also apparently not relevant. The differentiation is based upon the products, not the people buying them.

If the data say these hair products are stolen substantially more than others, it is not a stereotype, it is a trend.


135 posted on 03/09/2021 11:18:53 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: cyclotic

The 4th and 5th Amendments have nothing to do with whether or not the store can stop you. Any rights there are based on state or local law.


136 posted on 03/09/2021 11:24:51 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SamAdams76

are lipsticks and makeup different for black people?


Well there is a different color palette, and specialty products. There are also products designed to deal with certain hair types, and skin conditions. Then there’s the marketing.


137 posted on 03/09/2021 11:27:46 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

>>If the data say these hair products are stolen substantially more than others, it is not a stereotype, it is a trend.<<

I stand properly corrected. When using my tablet I skip words sometimes. Sadly they can be the important ones like “PRODUCTS.”

:)


138 posted on 03/09/2021 2:09:06 PM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: lepton

So a city or state law can override the Fourth and Fifth Amendment?


139 posted on 03/09/2021 7:56:14 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed

So a city or state law can override the Fourth and Fifth Amendment?


Over-ride? No.

Be applicable in cases where those Amendments aren’t? Absolutely.


140 posted on 03/09/2021 11:19:11 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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