yeah, its lame. and its actually really annoying when its just lotion, hygienics, combs and I'm like "oooooooh its stuff homeless people of color need" but inconveniences people that are not stealing but have same hair and skin considerations
its obviously just a stop gap solution to exiting the market entirely since these stores no longer operate in a market based economy where property rights are enforced, so just close up instead of operating a crippled store hanging on by a thread, inconveniencing random swaths of their remaining customers just because an excel spreadsheet said so