I went to the North Hills Target store in Raleigh NC yesterday to do some Christmas shopping. I was taking my time to absorb everything that was new in store and making decisions on what I wanted to purchase for my family and friends. Upon picking up a few items and approaching the checkout, I heard over the staff’s radio to watch someone. I looked up and the employee was walking fast and looking around and asking “who” to the person on the other side of the radio, he then looked at me and walked off.Anyways when I approached the last self service checkout till, the security guard had a message over the radio saying “watch that person with white in the hood”. The security guard repeated “white hood?” And the person on the radio said yes.Well I was the only one with a white hooded coat in that area and I even looked around to make sure of that before I made the complaint! So after paying for my items, I looked up directly at the security guard who was looking at me (an African man). He then looked the other way. Now I know it’s a store’s role to have security and watch people but firstly, there was no reason for them to look at me and I am no where near a thief nor did I have any suspicious behavior for them to have treated me this way. I was very uncomfortable and I just wanted to leave that store immediately, I felt embarrassed. Even though I had done nothing wrong, the staff made me feel this way. I want an apology and I want to know how you are going to rectify this issue?I am never going in a target store again and I will be letting people know how I was treated by the company!! This is classed as discrimination and I am currently speaking to my lawyer to see how we can escalate this!!
