A still from a video taken by Essie Grundy shows hair products behind a glass case at a Perris Walmart
A California woman says she's filing a racial discrimination lawsuit against Walmart.
Essie Grundy speaks during a news conference on January 26, 2018.
When she returned to the store to purchase a 48 cent comb, she said she was "shocked" to find that, despite its low cost, the comb was also separated and could only be taken out by a Walmart employee.
Essie Grundy, 43, says all beauty products marketed for black people are placed in a locked glass case, while cosmetics targeting other ethnicities are freely available at the Walmart near her Perris home, about an hour southeast of Los Angeles.
The lawsuit demands an immediate stop to the practice - noting the humiliation and psychological trauma Grundy was made to feel.
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She also said that she was told the employee had to carry the product to the cash register before she could touch it. She claimed that customers of other races were not treated that way. According to Allred, a Walmart employee admitted that other customers had complained about the locked cases; however, the employee said the decision to segregate black hair-care products was an order from corporate.
The video was played during the press conference - showing men's and women's shampoos, body creams and combs of little retail value among other products with labels featuring black models, all arranged in a locked glass case.
Grundy was shopping for a comb in her local store when she found it was locked in a cabinet: "That's when I noticed that all of the African American products were locked up under lock and key", Grundy told reporters at a news conference on Friday. "We are all human and we deserve to be treated as everyone else". That is being treated with the utmost disrespect. And in order to purchase them, an employee was required to accompany her to a register.
In a statement from a Walmart spokesman, the store said that no retailer is "immune to the challenge of crime".
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