Anti-theft tags on black hair care products

CVS Pharmacy stores have placed anti-theft tags on hair care products made for women of color. However, hair products designed for Caucasian women do not have security tags. This story first circulated on the internet as a rumor in May 2006.

Snopes.com reported the rumor as TRUE. News reports on television stations across the country confirmed CVS stores located in South Carolina and Kansas  were among the few guilty of racial profiling hair-care products designed for African-American women.

Hair relaxers created for black women were tagged with the most theft-security labels. Hair straighteners for white women did not have any security labels. The racial profiling practices of these stores are not widespread throughout the CVS pharmacy chain. CVS responded to the reports by saying that anti-theft tags were only placed on products that were shoplifted the most, according to Snopes.com.

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