took y'all long enough
, “We serve millions of customers every day from diverse backgrounds. We have made the decision to discontinue placing multicultural hair care and beauty products in locked cases. This practice was recently in place in about a dozen of our 4,700 stores nationwide.”
This isn't the first time the store has received backlash on this issue. In January 2018, Essie Grundy, a Black woman in California,against Walmart for racial discrimination, claiming the company violated her civil rights by displaying Black personal care products in locked anti-theft cases.
, a CVS spokesperson addressed the situation, writing, "We have a firm non-discrimination policy that applies to all aspects of our business and our product protection measures have never been based on the race or ethnicity of our customers.
"We are currently ensuring multicultural hair care and beauty products are not stored behind locked cases at any of our stores," a spokesperson from
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