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My local grocery store in NW San Antonio has all of the razor blade cartridges locked up. Should I notify the ACLU? Southern Poverty Law Center? This blatant targeting not only impacts males of all races older than say 16, but also females that are forced to conform to societal images of beauty. There is also an 8.5% sales tax on these items. So, in addition the already high price, the shame having to seek out a store employee to unlock them, thus drawing attention to those pressured to conform to societal norms, we are taxed on top of the guilt, shame, and stereotyping.
It has everything to do with RACE actually. This is common around here in many stores, people have just grown to tolerate and accept it.
Many of our stores that happen to be in mainly 'black' parts of town, have VERY high security, most have full bullet proof glass surrounding the cashiers station, many 'high theft' items are kept behind the counter, and not out on the sales floor, but stores in 'nice upper class white areas', have none of this security.
Our stores in the upper class white areas are held up frequently too, but you will never see the type of security measures put in that stores in black areas have.
Do you have the rates of theft across products by store?
There are huge security differences between stores in upper class white areas and black areas though.
I live in exburbia in Cop central NJ. People generally leave everyone else alone and follow the law. Add in a crazy heavy exburban police force and Walmart leaves the entire garden department outside all night unlocked at a store that closes at 830P. (normally 11P but thank you Covid) Same with the grocery stores that carry seasonal items. It costs them less than to move it every night.
BTW a below average income but not poor town. Few dead poor people but lots of ALICE families.
Every retailer that can afford loss prevention has it. Like an actual department dedicated to nothing but reducing loss to theft, spillage, etc.
WalMart has data on what gets stolen, which is why some stuff is locked up and not others. Guarantee if WalMart was pressed by some federal anti-racism investigation to provide the relevant loss prevention data that warrants them locking up "black beauty" products, that data is going to tell a story the liberal powers-that-be won't really want to hear.
That's why these stories make headlines, but never seem to go much farther. You'd think, if WalMart had some racist policy to "just lock up anything black people like", then there would be demand for government investigation and intervention...but yeah, just past the "shocking" headline, pretty much everyone inherently knows why some products are locked up and others aren't. Thus, no real investigation into what everyone already knows and the loss prevention data is going to confirm.
Do people really think this has anything to do with race? Big retail stores lock up items that have a tendency to walk off the shelf.
Instead of being mad at the company and calling it racist, how about being mad at the people who steal the product often enough that the store had to make changes in how they offer it???
The white population rip us off more than the black and the HIGH money white collar crimes- as PONZI and embezzlement, money laundering, leave that black hair grease a a nothing burger.
FBI statistics-- for some refuse to open the link as read real FACTS!
BURGLARY- WHITE 91,581 BLACK 39,617
LARCENY WHITE 448,193 BLACK 201,086
VEH THEFT WHITE 44,512 BLACK 22,305
EMBEZZLEMENT 6,923 ---- 3,955
Do people really think this has anything to do with race? Big retail stores lock up items that have a tendency to walk off the shelf.
Instead of being mad at the company and calling it racist, how about being mad at the people who steal the product often enough that the store had to make changes in how they offer it???
Come on now-you really don't expect that level of integrity from those impacted by criminal acts committed by those of the same race, do you?
Do people really think this has anything to do with race? Big retail stores lock up items that have a tendency to walk off the shelf.
Instead of being mad at the company and calling it racist, how about being mad at the people who steal the product often enough that the store had to make changes in how they offer it???
Yeah it does. It is saying what people on this forum say all the time. Blacks are more criminal. Then they will show you statistics. However, I am not a thief. If I need black hair care products....why should I have to go find a manager with a key?
So just like white people today "never owned a slave" and therefore should not be burdened by the liabilities created from that, I have never stolen hair care products so why should I be burdened just because some blacks did?
If the store is in a 'middle to upper class white area'...NO, the products are not locked up.
It all depends on where the store is located. In general, the same products are stolen, no matter where the store is, but there is a huge difference in how the stores deal with it.
I call BS.. go into the electronic departments and look at the small high dollar items. They're all locked up, a lot of time high dollar sunglasses are locked up as well.. why? Because they have a tendency to walk. You're only seeing what you want to see. Things that get stolen often/easily get locked, period.
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The white population rip us off more than the black and the HIGH money white collar crimes- as PONZI and embezzlement, money laundering, leave that black hair grease a a nothing burger. 
