I honestly think there are more questions involved here than you're really considering. If a small "black targeted product" that's high value and easy to steal is not locked up, what's to prevent a white person from stealing it and selling it to their black friends for a quarter the cost? Who ever accused "black people" of being the thieves? If anything, I think the store is doing a service to their black community by keeping the product secured. By preventing the mass theft of said product, they're able to keep it on the shelf to cater to their black community. Given the options are to drastically raise the price of the product or to stop selling them entirely, it seems sweet.

Nobody has said "blacks want these and blacks steal". Nobody has indicated that any special measures are being taken against any group or there are any bad thoughts about a specific group due to race except the article writers themselves. And they lack any form of hard evidence. In fact, the (possibly fabricated) picture above with the mens hair dye shows the opposite. Notice that all of them are the same price? It could be argued that even if the photo was real, then there was mass theft of the "black targeted product" and therefore there should be a corresponding increase to the price. Indeed, the extra labor and security device cost involved to secure them should raise the price as well. Instead, they're identical. Why? Seems to me that even if that pic is real, that store is catering to the black community, not trying to profile them, by insuring they get the same product at the same price and are able to continue providing it at all.

Spam is the unofficial meat of Hawaii. You will find spam slices atop rice wrapped in seaweed called “spam musubi” in every gas station and corner store. It’s demand makes it an item that’s easy to resell on Craigslist or the like for cheap. People used to walk out of stores with literal carts full of spam lmao

E/ Hawaii is neck deep in meth addiction and homelessness which leads to the high theft. Theft is extremely high in general on the islands and violent crime has been going up lately as well

This post was edited by DrFaGgIt on Feb 22 2021 08:39pm

Locking up spam in hawaii is pretty racist though.

Real talk. If hair care products are being stolen, and the choice is to lock them up. You lock all of them up. Locking up only the ones for black people is a doofus move. Also, motherfucker could just steal a different one ya fuckin idiots and rock a new hair color for a bit.