Black customer takes revenge on Kohl’s store employee after noticing employee following her around store, video shows

A Black woman recorded the moments she told a department store employee to choose up for her after she noticed the employee stalking her around the store.

After a consumer at a TJ Maxx store in Wisconsin claimed to have undergone racial profiling last week, one other customer posted a video on TikTok of an analogous purchase, this time at a Kohl’s store.

TikTok user @lenaonnat posted a video titled “Employee kept following me so I gave her a job to do” with the caption “#profiling.”

“I’m going to leave some shit for her to pick up,” he tells the camera before addressing the employee directly.

“Hey you!” buyer calls employee. “You can come and pick it all up if you want to sit here and continue following me,” the patron tells the employee. “There is some work here.”

The employee begins to stutter, then tells the customer, “I had no idea what you were doing,” and claims he works in one other nearby department.

The shopper tells her that she saw her and one other employee following her around the store, so she left several items of clothing she was considering buying scattered on the ground for the employee to gather and organize.

“If you need a job, you can find it there,” the patron tells the employee, pointing to the garments she left behind. “I don’t even want this shit I’m buying. This is so weird,” he says, walking away.

Commentators praised the client’s response in an uncomfortable situation.

“It’s good that you spoke up,” one person wrote.

“I like your approach to giving them work. But I’m actually really sorry they did this to you,” one other person said.

“It makes me very angry, especially when I have to spend a lot of money,” one other commenter wrote. “Audacity”.

@lenaonnat’s shopping experience mirrors what a Black TJ Maxx customer shared on social media last week.

Sophia Madrid claimed that she and her boyfriend visited a store in Racine, Wisconsin to purchase handbags, but noticed that multiple employees were watching their movements, following them and sending information concerning the couple to one another as they browsed.

According to the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center, consumer racial profiling is the practice of targeting a consumer for discriminatory treatment based on his or her race, ethnicity, or each. Many firms use legal shoplifting profiling tactics to stop losses. However, racial profiling is against the law.

Store associates may profile shoppers by following them as soon as they enter the store, physically searching shoppers and their belongings, physically removing shoppers from the store without reasonable cause, questioning them about their ability to afford a services or products, or repeatedly accusing them of stealing and illegally detained.

2021 report published by State of Racial Profiling in American Retail revealed that over 90 percent of black shoppers experience racial profiling when shopping or browsing. The survey was conducted amongst greater than 1,000 black consumers, 52 percent of whom said they’d not refuse to go to a store again after being profiled.