I wish I could stop learning some new about systemic racism. Major chains make centralized and powerful white assumptions about Black theft, in this case Black American Women, because white ownership is controlled nationally. The perception of executives made at headquarters is not a low-level decision, like the liberal stereotype of the “poor trailer-park trash” whites but a high level centralized decision by rich executives in corporate headquarters. They either have negative stereotypes about “poor black women” or they are trying to deliberately perpetrate the stereotype in a visceral shopping encounter to create a distinction whites feel when shopping through experiential reasoning, “forcing” whites to subtlety derive an subconscious conclusion by physical deductive reasoning. Or a combination of both.
Excellent five gold star researching and reporting. The NIH published several papers on how evidence like this is contrary to white beliefs projected onto Black Americans.