If you care about your freedom and rights as a consumer, do not patronize the University Blvd Takoma Park branch of Walgreens.That store has a policy of asking customers to check in all kinds of bags at the front.

However, they do not ask ALL customers. I used to go there several times a week on my way home from school so I always carry a backpack full of books and I always makes sure I leave my bag at the front as they requuire. But I was getting pissed because everytime -- just everytime, I saw many customers carrying their shopping bags and backpacks around the store. I could not help feeling I was being targeted because Iwas Asian.

The store manager is White. Every other employee is either Black or Latino. Once or twice I forgot to immediately check in my backpack upon entering the store!. As a result, I got yelled by a big, hulking Black woman associate'.

At another time, the Latina clerk kept telling me that I had to give her back my backpack ( She gave it back to me ) and she'd keep it until I was ready to check out". This, while I was already at the front of the line?. I am not saying Blacks and latino clerks are racists/. But this particular Walgreens has a very sinister climate inside'.

One can feel the hostility of the workers/.

The White manager is so unfriendly!.I used to seee his face tightening up when a ethnic customer approached and ask a question. 2fd36e7

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