According to a lawsuit filed this month by former employees of the Macy's flagship NYC store, the store racially profiled Asian customers visting the store: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...e73e4b0186c2205dc2a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Sales associates at Macys flagship store in New York Citys Herald Square were told to look out for or not sell to customers of Asian descent, four former employees alleged in a lawsuit filed earlier this month.
The directives were based on a stereotype that opportunistic foreign customers would buy products to resell in Asia, according to a press release from Wigdor LLP, the firm that filed the suit on behalf of the former associates.
The plaintiffs, most of whom identify as Asian-American, alleged that managers told sales associates they should refrain from selling more than one unit of the same product to Asian customers, among other discriminatory instructions. Official store policy allows shoppers to purchase up to six units of a single product.
Employees working in the loss prevention department would allegedly make Asian shoppers uncomfortable by staring them down until their transactions were completed.
The plaintiffs say they were fired after they filed grievances with Macys union and brought up the matter to their managers. Wigdor LLP called their terminations a blatant act of retaliation against those employees who dared to speak up against such unlawful racial profiling.