https://www.resetera.com/threads/tesco-put-security-tags-on-make-up-for-dark-skin-but-not-lighter-tones.615798/#post-91056645
doesn't a big store like tesco have theft insurance anyways?
In a tweet, she said: "Can you please explain this? Do white people not steal then? Absolutely disgusting and not to mention racist!!!!"
you know how decisions like this get made?
when the store checks their inventory and discovers they have sold most of their stock of white make-up but almost none of their black make-up, yet somehow they're nearly out of both of them
The guy who pointed this out got permabanned for saying this.
Let's say that I'm a card game shop. I sell Magic, Pokemon, and YuGiOh booster packs. I notice that a lot of the YuGiOh booster packs are being stolen, so I put anti theft tags on them. That's a pretty logical decision, right?|
To me, a similar case could very, very easily be happening here. They notice that the darker tones of makeup are getting stolen at a rate above the usual shrinkage rate, so they put security/anti theft tags on them.
They even say so in the article
"Our stores may sometimes use security tags on items which have recently been subject to theft and the decision to do so changes from store to store.
If people want to fight racism, I'm right there with them. But absent evidence to the contrary, the explanation of "All of our makeup is getting stolen a ton, and we're only going to put anti theft tags on the makeup for black people" seems a bit more ridiculous than "We noticed a few makeup SKUs were seeing higher than expected rates of theft, so we secured those SKUs". The latter seems more reasonable, and the more likely explanation here.
Holy fuck this take is awful.
Willfully defending systemic racism, oof.
In the example you cited I would put all those items in a cabinet which only staff can access so customers have to ask for them. Not put tags on one specific item.
oof oof, shit take fam, this privilege, I can't even, etc etc
also if you want to talk about equal protection of products divided by race that's one discussion, but to say that for the example he cited? magic, pokemon, and yugioh all need to be protected equally because one of them is stolen?
imagine you're wal-mart and someone keeps stealing your hot dogs so you lock up all food items in fully half the store just to protect all food equally