As Black buying power grows, racial profiling by retailers remains persistent problem

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George Floyd's killing and Black Lives Matter protests have sparked a national conversation not only about police reform, but about the everyday places where Black Americans face discrimination.

kept multicultural hair care and beauty products, primarily sold to Black women, in locked displays at some stores, as products commonly used by White customers were in unlocked displays nearby. Those retailers have said in recent weeks they'll end that practice.

"As a retailer serving millions of customers every day from diverse backgrounds, Walmart does not tolerate discrimination of any kind," the company said in a statement. Walgreens said in a statement that it's making sure multicultural hair care and beauty products aren't stored in locked cases and said that "has been the case at a limited number of our stores."

In beauty, for example, she said the discrepancy can be obvious when a brand or a store has numerous shades of light beige and just a few shades of brown. But it can carry over into other ways companies operate, too. That growth is outpacing White buying power. Between 2000 and 2018, Black buying power rose 114%, compared to an 89% increase in White buying power, according to Nielsen.

 

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As Black buying power grows: IF that is to be Believed...smart money and smarter individuals are controlling their M.P.C. Great salesreps profile EVERY customer for profit. A savvy Black Brother like me will start touching expensive showroom floor product Someone's coming now!

It’s not profiling....it’s simply paralleling crime statistics

STFU CNBC

If you grow from 0-1, you’re not really growing

13% of the population and the majority are on government assistance. Man you guys have gone full woke mode.

More pretend racism. Must be great to always be victims.

More racial profiling used to talk about racial profiling?

You guys real just want to stir the pot with every article you post. Never thought an investing channel would turn into a race war baiting medium

is on racial tear this week. Can you possibly come up with more shit? Way to unite, good job

Then maybe it should be black people in those high profile marketing positions

We need to stop using color as a narrative.

KennethHowardC3 CNBC and CNN is the real problem in America. They try to divide us every second on tv 24hrs a day.

Do you ever post anything that is actually true

Black looting power not buying

Maybe because of the amount of theft? Detroit....the entire city...has NO chain grocery stores. It's not because of racism; it is because of theft. Stores in inner cities lose money. People must realize you are entitled to what you work for and only what you work for.

When Cadillac and Ralph Lauren market to the rich white man, it paradoxically attracts the poor black man.

Toure jemelehill

GAP

Everything moving online solves this.

“.. vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of New Haven...”. Sound like someone who sees racism in his morning oatmeal

Never ending race baiting. NBC is a cesspool

I’m a Democratic, you’re going to have to start proving these numbers. Getting tiered of reading how you spoke to 1 or 2 people and decide you have enough statistics to publish a racially charged article. Rn is about social change not your profits.

Bull Crap. What leftest communists do you have making these tweets?

Racist.

Story checks out.

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