WTF? My white friend just had to explain to her 1st grade daughter (biracial) why her shampoo was behind lock and key while her mom's shampoo was on an open shelf.

This Store Locked Up Black Haircare Products as a &#...

As someone who uses a semi-perm hair colour 'for black women' [its just the company's target audience], I think that's just... stupid on so many levels, as well as horribly insulting. If we had any of those stores here, I'd never go to shop there.

Do you think they actually have data that shows that it is being shoplifted and the other products are not? and that being said, that does not mean any particular race is the one doing the shoplifting either. I have curly hair and many products traditionally marketed for African Americans works wonderfully on my hair. I am Caucasian, Irish/German/English

In the electronic section, they lock certain things up for supposedly the same reason- they have data that it is being lifted. That just is not marketed to any specific racial group.

However, this shows complete racial insensitivity. If they were going to lock up shampoo, it needed to be ALL the shampoo.

Also, If I was shoplifting. I think this would piss me the F off and I would just start taking all the things. So really what is this deterring?

wtf. I see this after seeing that video of the girl at the Christian school being expelled for her hair being "unnatural". Did you see that?

Sienia : I did...

Yes.

'It's not embracing diversity:' School criticized fo...

I had not seen it. That is absolutely ridiculous. Her hair looks lovely and her parents pay a lot to upkeep that hairstyle.

Just in case people missed the point, they labeled it

wow that's really really messed up and I would never patronize this shop glad we don't have them here.

It is my insurance company's preferred pharmacy. My meds cost twice as much elsewhere. I wrote the insurance company asking for a different pharmacy.

wow, that is so wrong and insulting to PoC on so many levels. AND stupid because I have actually bought the curly girl conditioner that I can clearly see behind the glass and I'm a white girl. AND I'm pretty sure I bought that AT a Freddies. That makes me not want to shop there anymore.

Who owns Freddies now - Krogers right? Thinking of writing a letter because that is wrong. And going to my Freddies to check to see if they have done this at all stores or just "select" ones

Yeah, it's Kroger's now

It gets more obviously racist. Interstate FM does not lock up the hair products. Interstate is in the historically black neighborhood. This is Gateway, a formerly mostly white neighborhood where Black people have been moving since gentrification is pushing them out of N Portland

That is very interesting and definitely racist. And obv not "data driven" I'd think.

I've never seen locked up hair stuff

Target and Walmart both have huge sections for black hair and manage to not lock them up

I'm not familiar with Fred Meyer but I'm curious whose decision this was

ive never seen locked up hair stuff either...now baby formula, that's another thing

Tillor Swift : Fred Meyer was an Oregon family-owned grocery chain that went public, was taken over in a scandalous hostile takeover funded by state investment funds by KKR, the director got a kickback. The local paper knew about it and did not cover it because he's the son of their biggest advertiser. Meier & Frank's Frank.

A year later it was exposed by WSJ. KKR is gone, they've been sold a few times, now owned by Krogers