Let me explain. When you have a shopping cart full of stuff and you're walking out, the door people at walmart USUALLY check your receipt and glance at your basket(like at costco) so you're not stealing a big screen or something...If you're not white.

But me, a white guy, NEVER gets stopped, and the door people are usually not ever white(unless they're 100+ years old).

It can be busy as hell, and there can be a stop and go line of people exiting walmart because the door person is checking all the colored people's carts and reciepts. But when it's my turn to leave, I just walk through, or give the head nod to the door person...and they just let me by, NEVER checking my receipt or cart. They almost always stop people of color(and again, usually the door person is the same race as that person they're checking).

So I live in washington state now, I did grow up in texas where this happens exactly the same. Over the holidays, I went to texas and with my dad went to walmart, walked out with a whole cart full, and they just waved us by, after stopping the people right infront of us. I told him about it, and he already knows why. When I go to walmart with a friend up here, where it's supposed to be liberal, and more accepting, I call it out before it happens "See how that black woman at the door just stopped that black customer, checking her cart? She's gonna let me just walk by with twice as much stuff and tell me to 'have a nice day'."

messed up, huh?

 

im half asian and half hispanic and here in houston tx i never get checked for anything at walmart... and there are like a million of them here

 

I've never seen them stop anybody. Even if the alarm is going off. I guess we just have lazier door people here.

 

I guess, yeah I do notice they don't do anything about alarms going off, like that would keep people from shopping there if it's crime central.

 

Simple theory, aweful truth if you look like a punk your gonna get stopped. If they wanna stop me i keep walking.... they better work to put that little yellow mark on my receipt!

 

but it's not punks they're stopping. it's 30-40 something minorities with kids. and even though i usually have my kid with me, I'm 6'4" with spiky red hair and stupid cartoon tshirts, so you'd think i would stick out like a sore thumb(especially with the average shopper ther being like 5'4")

 

Welcome to reality! Profiling is nothing new, nor will it ever be just part of the past. Huff and puff all you want, but profiling happens for a reason...it works. Not all the time, but enough for "The Man" to continue to use it.

Im not saying its right, Im not saying its wrong. It is what it is...no more, no less. If you dont like it, drop out of society becasue it happens EVERYWHERE (yes, even to those damn white folks).

 

P.S.

Thats what you get for shopping at Sprawl-Mart. j/k

 

whats wal-mart

 

a place where over 100million americans(and we only have 300million) shop PER WEEK.

 

ha ha im white/mex mix but dark and i just walk by i never stop and if they try i use the same bs on them why did ya stop me so we can all use it the same way ..

 

Funny...I rarely get stopped going out, unless I have an item without a bag.

 

It's been years since I've been in a Mall-Wart, er, Wal-Mart, but I've never been stopped leaving. The only place where I'm stopped is Fry's electronics where EVERYONE must have their purchases checked leaving.

As to alarms going off if some clerk doesn't remove/deactivate a tag, I just keep walking. I didn't sign up to be monitored by their idiot child monitoring systems.

(If they want me bad enough they will have to come after me, and they better be ready to freeze like an icicle if they attack - I am armed. If some non-identified, non-police type tries to grab me in a parking lot, I will assume he is the bad guy until the police arrive and sort him out.)

The profiling that goes on constantly, even down to who's being shadowed by the internal security, or who's waited on first and best, is very annoying. If some 'sales associate' ignores someone next to me and serves me first, out of order, I call 'em on it and defer to the other person waiting. It's only right.

(Yeah, I try to fix what I can in my tiny corner of the world. That's just the way I was brought up. Guess it's kind of rare to see a 60 year old, white male activist still battling the battle.)

Tom

 

We need more people like that. It's like that annoying commercial that shows the people all doing a good deed for someone and it coming back to them in the end. I do the same as far as people being skipped over in lines or at counters and such. If the person is in line before me, they go before me. I don't care what race/religion/sex or any of that. It's how things should be, plus its just a decent thing to do.

 

ok, but have you ever called someone out in public for cutting?

 

The walmarts i go to only seem to stop people "20 looking" and under... assuming that its the youth that are stealing.... i hardly seem them stop anyone else...

 

yup.............. always do call people out for cutting

 

doesn't happen here

 

I'm in Washington State and they don't do that at the Lynnwood, Marysville or Mt. Vernon Walmart.

Yes, I have been stopped and I have seen people stopped. The protocol on it has always been if you have items on the bottom of your shopping cart, high ticket items or items that aren't in bags. I have never seen any profiling.

 

They usualy stop me when I don't have something bagged. Even if I do have it bagged I have the reciept out ready for them to look at, yet they just wave me through. I like that. I don't want to spend any time that is not needed to be spent in Wal-Mart.