TikToker Accuses Walmart Of Being Racist For Putting Security Tags Only On Darker Shades Of Makeup, Some People Suggest Other Explanations

I assure you it was not fake 😂

and using guns clears up snow

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The snow in texas is racist because it’s white. Where’s the black snow??? They ain’t letting the black snow fall cause it’s a racist state man!

What's sad is that people aren't taking into consideration how outdated his references were when he created the drawings for his books. They'll ultimately hang a racist label on one of the greatest child authors of our time, simply because people don't have anything better to do other than go through their days looking for things to hate.

@ Casey B -- People ARE taking into consideration how outdated his references are. His books weren't banned, his family simply chose to stop producing the books because they were no longer appropriate. Very few people are nailing Seuss to a cross, they aren't banning or using cancel culture against his other books. They aren't even "hating" the books that have stopped being published, they are just saying "that's not ok anymore"

@Big Foot "I'm sure there are tons of other books"... you are right, there are tons of other books that are outdated and inappropriate today. And guess what? They also are no longer being published.

The Dr. Seuss books included racist caricatures of certain cultures. That's a fact. People didn't realize it was inappropriate then, but they do realize it now. So they decided to pull the books from the shelves to avoid further submitting people to those inappropriate images. Nobody is throwing a fit, nobody is making a big deal, they are just saying "hmm, that's not so appropriate anymore, we should stop producing it", and then they move on.

Are you serious right now? Doctor Seuss drew and wrote some insanely racist stuff, and no one with a functioning brain would deny that. https://adayinourshoes.com/was-dr-seuss-a-racist/

I have 2 of those Seuss books and the ones in question were racist AF. Even the political cartoonist who wrote Seuss said he regretted some of his racist stuff and that was decades ago.

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I'm sure there are tons of other books out there with racist junk but no one cares?

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Same with actors - Fire that person, fire this person and that person is problematic, too! If Disney would always listen to theiose people they would run out of actors within a year

@Gyro -- If razor blades are being stolen they add security to all blades. Not just the specific models that get stolen. Same goes for any other product. They put security on all or none, or maybe anything over a certain price point. The fact that they aren't following that standard trend here says something.

What is being stolen? Those skus get tagged and the items not stolen are permitted to circulate freely..

Dude, there's software for that... What do you think all those barcodes and scanner systems are for? If they bought 10, sold 8 and inventory is actually zero by the time the system orders, you know something's up. It's incredibly easy and important to spot empty shelves and correct this. If you have any retail experience, you'd know this. The employee doesn't have to be a statistical expert, just report an empty spot. System does the rest. I'm in awe how much manual thinking you believe is going on. That would not be feasible in the scale Walmart operates.

Store chains have regional managers - they can look up statistics of all stores they are responsible for and give out specific orders for each store. It's very easy with the IT support they have - open the yearly inventory report and sort by biggest difference, that's all they have to do. (I once had to do that job for a week, glad I'm not very likely to be promoted XD )

Really? Not what Walmart’s response was: https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-accused-racism-putting-security-tags-darker-shades-makeup-1573034

You are assuming the product was being stolen. Theres nothing in this post that says this! The store manager could have literally been the most racist person ever, KKK leader, believing all black ppl steal, and locked it up before anyone ever stole anything. Youre so ignorant its astounding. Seriously. You act like theres only one explanation for this and the fact that you are so blatantly blind to racism in this country is why black people keep getting murdered. "It must be this. It can only be that". No! It's racist. Lock all of that sh*t up if it's not because black girl don't. need. concealer!!!!!

I think, O’Connell, that Walmart already released a statement saying that this is done at individual stores discretion. I also think that since Kentucky is about 90% white and darker skinned people use concealer much less, to the point that manufacturers have often stopped producing dark colors, that the likely explanations are 1) Walmart stopped keying these cosmetics but didn’t remove the keys on the old stock. Since there was higher turnover of lighter colors, this left only the darker colors keyed. Or 2) there is at least one racist person in Kentucky who works in Walmart. But rather than either of these explanations.. you want to makeup data and ignore these facts so you can argue this proves that less than 10% of the population in Kentucky is responsible for the majority of theft even for items they don’t use.

You think a company the size of Walmart doesn't have a statistics department? In an operation that large they cut costs wherever the math tells them to. There is a cost involved with putting security tags on, in areas where those products are stolen, the cost of applying the tags might have grown so high that they made the decision for the manufacturer to apply the tags robotically on their end because that would cost less than all the manual labor at each store, perhaps resulting in locations where those products are low-theft items to receive them tagged as well. It might not make sense until you recognize the scale involved. Saving half a cent each on a million items makes a $5000 cost difference on the corporate level, which speaks directly to profit margin.

1) We don't know how long the product was available in that store 2) Differences can be mathematically proven, up to 5 products could count as misscounting, wrong delivery etc. If a lot is missing without it going over the counter it's very likely often stolen from the store 3) All additional costs are either paid by the customer (higher prices + more worktime) or cut by paying the employees less. It's simply more efficient to only tag things that get stolen