I see where Walmart says they are going to stop keeping multicultural items under lock and key.

Let me venture a guess on how this is going to play out.

First the price of these items will rise to cover the cost of shoplifting.

As the price goes up shoplifting will increase.

Walmart will then simply stop selling  these items because they can't make any money on them.

It's really quite simple the way things work.

If a store receives 100 units of such and such a product puts it on the shelf and now has none they look at the number of that unit that has gone through the cash register. If the registers report that 50 have been sold then the other 50 have mysteriously disappeared.

The fix is to put the item under lock and key or simply stop selling it. It's losing money.

The loss prevention people may very well not know what the item in question is. It's simply SKU number such and such. All they know is SKU such and such seems to be disappearing mysteriously. They order it locked up. Fair enough.

The numbers are not racist. They are cold hard fact. What IS racist/sexist/whatever is manipulating the numbers to attain the results someone wants.



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