Walmart 'segregated,' locked up African-American hair products, lawsuit alleges

WCPO ^ | January 27, 2018 | Mark Saunders

[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."

[kevcol]

[MortMan]

They used to call this “knowing the customer”.

[clee1]

That’s because they “walk off” so readily.

Not racist; reality.

[tomkat]

Well this is quite the mystery, ehh ??

[bagster]

Five finger discount.

#GimmeDatWeave

[Kid Shelleen]

isn’t it cultural mis-appropriation to straighten your hair like a “white person”?

[Scrambler Bob]

I’s say that they are so valuable that we lock them up to keep the white folk from stealing them.

[Pearls Before Swine]

At the CVS, in my lily white town, they lock up the perfume. It’s a product centered loss prevention policy.

[4yearlurker]

When the natives get restless and crash the store windows,stores selling hair products are hit first. Ain't no thing.

[Disambiguator]

isn’t it cultural mis-appropriation to straighten your hair like a “white person”?

Go ask, excuse me, "ax" Maxine Waters.

[skr]

Not locked up in our Walmart here in the South. Must be a huge shoplifting problem in that particular Walmart.

[butlerweave]

Anything marked African American = Free to take by African Americans ,LOL

[MortMan]

Yep.

[Species8472]

Same reason I lock up the Hennessy and Ciroc in my liquor store.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Many CVS pharmacies lock up the Sudafed because it’s used in making meth..is that racist? Gee everything to these people is racist, yet at many colleges blacks want segregation, want their own dorms, etc is that OK

[NohSpinZone]

Tney lock up razor blades too. Is that racist?

[Ouch]

There is an easy response, stop selling hair care products that get stolen.

[17th Miss Regt]

But were they in the back of the hair products display???

[chuckee]

Try to find a supermarket in Detroit.Can’t lock up the food. The entire store is a loss leader in that environment.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Let’s see... Either Walmart was desperately trying to signal that they are racist... Or, they were forced to take extraordinary measures out of necessity. I think the latter, because well... I have a brain.