A visitor to a Walgreens in Irvington, New Jersey, alleges racial discrimination after deodorant was locked behind security buttons, claiming the store targets Black residents despite having a Black employee. While the host counters that retailers lock high-theft items universally regardless of race, the guest insists the measure stems from neighborhood demographics, suggesting crime would vanish if the city were only 10-15% Black. The segment concludes by questioning whether the visitor is exposing systemic bias or victimizing themselves through content that blames the store for necessary security protocols against actual theft. [Automatically generated summary]
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Locked Deodorant in Irvington00:04:13
TikTok, I'm in Walgreens in Irvington, New Jersey right now.
You can't even get deodorant.
Like, you gotta press up.
I had to press a button just now.
Like, deodorant is locked up.
Even this lady doesn't understand.
Like, when you...
I'm starting to see why.
A bunch of black customers in there.
Okay, she said Irvington, New Jersey.
Yeah.
I looked it up.
Right.
Did you know the demographics of that place?
60,000 population.
It's 79% black.
Y'all need some more diversity there.
That's why it's locked up.
That's black supremacy right there.
Y'all need some more diversity.
You have to call somebody to get deodorant.
It's crazy.
Like, is it all animals in the area?
Pretty much, obviously.
If you lock it up deodorant, you live in a horrible neighborhood.
It's crazy.
Literally, so they have these buttons, TikTok.
You press them.
Now, mind you, they never have help in here, so I don't know why they would have everything locked up, but...
Can I get a good degree down here, please?
Yeah, y'all, everything is locked up in here, TikTok.
Yes.
That's crazy when you're locking up deodorant.
Yeah.
Look, there's a black employee.
It's 80% black.
Come on, Kevin.
Typically, when you go into a store, the high theft items are locked up like that.
Yeah.
You know, electronics.
That's what I'm saying.
If you go into a store and your deodorant is locked up, it's crime tape when you walk outside.
You live in a messed up neighborhood.
They lock it up deodored.
Deodorant is a high-theft item in the store so bad.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Yo, you can't even carry it to the front, TikTok.
This is Irvington, New Jersey Walgreens.
Everything is locked up.
Even this lady's like, you gotta...
Y'all know I'm from the suburbs.
They don't lock everything up like this.
People are actually allowed to go in the store and get what they need.
You're allowed to go in that store and get what you need.
Yeah, but you go into the suburbs.
They have some things locked up, high theft items.
But you going in the store in a bad, horrible neighborhood.
That's why everything's locked up.
Oh, my God.
I'm going to think this is the most incriminating experience.
What did she just say?
She said incriminating.
What does she mean by that?
I think she meant discriminating.
But it's not incriminating.
Incriminating.
It's like, like if a person, when you get arrested, do you say you have a right to remain silent?
Yeah.
And you keep talking and you telling yourself.
Yeah, that's incriminating.
She meant to say discriminate.
Yeah, but it's not even discrimination.
No, it's hot theft.
You live in a shithole.
If you walk there, it's a wait a minute.
We won't serve your guy now.
Yeah, that's discrimination.
That's discriminating.
Yeah, but everybody, you probably got a bad homeless population and they still in the oldest.
No, it's 80% black.
Right, right.
They need more diversity.
Kevin, y'all need some more white folks.
Like, crime is through the roof if the city was 30% black.
Because we only make up like 10, 15% of the population, whatever.
But 30% black?
Oh, that's sketchy.
We're the poorest demographic in the country.
So what do you think?
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Oh my god.
Diabolical.
So y'all know my next question after that immediately is like do people people can't afford a deodorant?
A $5 deodorant?
This is why I can't wait to start my non-profit because I just don't understand.
Victimizing Yourself Over Theft00:03:30
Like no person should have that shopping experience.
Yo, that is you gonna start a non-profit while you're gonna have all the deodorant out so it can get stolen?
You gonna put all your heart you gonna make the deodorant you're gonna buy the owner and you're gonna place it on shelves and call it a non-profit and just allow people you what in the hell yeah um yeah, she's um seems like to me she's victimizing herself.
Yeah, and she's not pointing out who the problem is crazy Walgreens.
I want to ask y'all a real question.
If people have to shop like that or you have urban areas and they're doing y'all like that, just close the down.
Well, if you do that, you're going to scream racist.
Oh, you're turning this place into a food desert.
Right.
She hasn't thought this through before she did this video.
Yeah, obviously.
She's just trying to create content and she's not thinking everything through.
Close down.
Nobody wants to shop like that.
When you're coming from a different area and you go in there, do you know how incriminating that is?
Incriminating.
She said it again.
Incriminating.
She thinks, she thinks, what in the yeah.
You know how much of a incriminating experience that is?
Walgreens?
If you are in an area where they steal like that, get the out of the area.
Watch your mouth.
Why are you cussing?
Is this just upsetting you that people steal?
It's your people.
I mean, there's, there's, there's consequences to your actions.
Yeah.
These people that live in the service, they steal.
The braid, look, brave the experience.
You should have called it incriminating experience.
Oh, there's a need.
Well, if there is a need, they'll treat it like it's a need and they'll stop stealing.
When my have to go to those mom and pop pharmacies and they have to figure it out at the moment and pop pharmacies that don't have their medicine, then they'll stop stealing.
That is crazy.
No, you're crazy.
Yeah, and you're brain dead.
She's not brain dead.
She hasn't given it much.
Hey, you shouldn't treat them like that.
And they're going to, if they really need it, man, what are you talking about?
That is so ghetto.
I've never, I've never experienced.
What?
The Walgreens is ghetto?
No, black people are ghetto.
They're actually trying to provide y'all with service.
Yeah, they're not closing the store down.
Yeah.
They're so okay.
We're going to stay in the neighborhood.
We got to help the community.
You know, got to serve these people.
So we're just going to lock stuff up.
We're going to lock everything up.
I mean, I mean, when I say everything was locked up, you better put them kids in child seats.
That's what you better do.
So imagine today they were quick, but normally you got to press the button, right?
I never had to press the button.
You waited in that line 20 minutes.
You wait.
When I press that button, someone's there within two minutes.
Yeah.
You said you press a button in some places.
First of all, she said she's never had to push a button, but then she said she's privileged.
She pressed the buttons after waiting in line for 20 minutes.
It's like she's making up things wrong with what's going on in this store and she's trying to put the onus and the burden on the store for being a little leery and cautious of black shoppers.
Inventory Tracking vs Discrimination00:02:15
What was her motive for her to put up this incriminating video?
You just incriminated yourself.
You just showed how stupid you are.
Incriminating.
Yeah, this is so incriminating.
Felt like, well, i've seen videos like this before.
Black people feel like uh, white people are treating them like animals.
When they lock up everything, they feel like they're being discriminated against just because they're black.
Now, it has nothing to do with your skin color.
Yeah, they're not.
They're not locking things up just because you're black.
They're locking things up because that's how black people act.
Well, a lot of people are not aware of how, how retail they track everything.
We used to work, we used to work in retail.
Right yeah, they track everything.
So their biggest sellers, they they order more of that and they track it.
When they get low, they order more.
Right, when they track these things, it's like man, I just ordered 50 deodorants.
It says I have 50 deodorants, but I go here, it's all gone.
So guess what?
They're gonna start locking up the high theft items the the the I, the high theft items.
They track everything yeah, so the reason why they're locking everything up is because all of these things the deodorant is being stolen.
They just don't do it for shits and giggles.
They do it because they track the inventory.
They're not doing it to like yeah, because you're black, they're not doing it because it's incriminating, whatever hell she meant by using that word in that, in that context.
That sense, i'm not sure what the hell's going through here, but any retailer, they're gonna lock up the high theft items.
Yeah, but yeah, they're actually.
It is discrimination once you think about it.
They're doing it because they're black.
No, No, no, they're doing it because they're black.
No, that's that just looks why they're doing it then because it's hot theft.
Yeah, because black people are still alive.
But that's they're doing it because they're black.
Well, they just happen to be black thieves in that area.
But that's not the only reason because of the color of the skin.
It's because there's a lot of thefts in that area.