If I owned a business I would be concerned w loss, why do we have to assume its racist? Why does everyone have to assume the worst?? And how is this a real problem, seems to be far more important issues.

Dude, take it up with corporate.

I’ve got to raise an eyebrow at you saying that you steal anything from Target on the regular. Maybe their security policies have loosened up a huge amount from way back in the 90s, but I’ve always understood Target to be pretty maniacal about inventory shrinkage. I’ve known more than a few people who worked there,…

I am an African American female and worked for Wal-Mart Inc. for 25yrs. till December. They do put security tags on high theft items. The store doesn’t make the decision. Half the time they were a nuisance because you had to either like she said walk them to the registers or they would pay seperately in that…

My local WalMart in a predominately white town had to redesign the entire cosmetics area because of massive amounts of theft in that section. Only one way in and out of the section, motion-activated cameras and screens that show you in every aisle and you have to pay for the cosmetics purchases at that specific…

I live in a predominately white northern Utah town and our local WalMart Supercenter had a massive issue with theft in the cosmetics section. Store management got approval for a redesigned cosmetics section. You enter and leave the cosmetics area through one way and you have to pass an associate at the register either…

I work at a Walmart . This is a small predominantly white town. We have a huge amount of theft. The biggest,thefts here are makeup.We have security pegs , tags boxes and everything you can think of. They still manage to steal. I see this everyday. It’s not discrimination when obviously it is stolen.Stores need some…

It’s not in Walmart’s interest to arbitrarily place product under lock and key, because it’s widely understood in the retail world that consumers like to be able to pick up, handle, weigh and try on products before making a purchase. Most likely the company made the choice to keep certain products behind glass because…

It doesn’t matter who is stealing the product...maybe Asians are coming in a stealing it and selling out out their trunks at discounted rates...maybe dumb little whites are stealing it because they think black stuff is cool...the point is, if something is being stolen and there is a risk of other similar products…

This is dumb. People lock shit up that is prone to theft. Like it or not, this is a loss-mitigation move, not a tool of oppression. My local Walmart locks up beard trimmers, razor blades, alcohol, etc. and there are far more rednecks in this area than black folks. Is Walmart anti-poor white trash?

This is ridiculous. I worked Asset Protection before and we locked items up based off shrink and hassle. Video games used to not be locked up, but an influx of kids started stealing the cartridges and disks so many stores began locking them up. Did kids start suing stores? This Walmart, and quite a few others, have…

White people and people with non-Black textured hair far out number people with Black textured hair, Wal-Mart would carry way more products catering to non-Black hair

Hey, I used to work retail and when you “gift yourself a discount” you generally get employees and management in trouble, vs giving the finger to The Man. :/

Lol - We’re you having a stroke when you wrote this?

Surely Walmart doesn’t have a perpetual inventory system along with monthly sales reports that would show that the large movement of inventory wasn’t being backed by actual sales. No, no. Occam’s Razor definitely dictates that Walmart was doing this out of pure racial animus, thereby opening itself up to multiple…

Stores like Walmart have become very good at tracking inventory. They know how much of each product they have, and track sales of those products. When the numbers sold is much lower than what they should be according to the inventory numbers, then it’s obviously a theft issue. Apparently at this store, there is a…

Seconded. I’ve worked at craft stores and one of the biggest thefts of the year was sticker aisle around graduation time. Kids wanted them for their hats. Of course, you can’t really lock up the stickers, the pegs aren’t made for it and they’re cheap as all hell (though the big rhinestone sticker sheets were like…

Or maybe they did research and this was being stolen a lot, so they put things that were statistically stolen more often in a locked container. If I buy certain alcohol it’s locked up, what’s the damn rush?

If this is what passes for hardcore racism in 2018, I’ll take it.

I work in retail and I can confirm 70% of the shit stolen where I work is probably done by middle and high school kids.