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“It’s an epidemic. It’s unbelievable,” Nicholas Elefterakis, Brown’s attorney, told The Post.<ref>Wilson, Julee. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/macys-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-black-shopper_n_4164823 ''Macy’s Also Gets Slapped With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Black Shopper'']. Huff Post. 25 October 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2021.</ref>
 
“It’s an epidemic. It’s unbelievable,” Nicholas Elefterakis, Brown’s attorney, told The Post.<ref>Wilson, Julee. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/macys-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-black-shopper_n_4164823 ''Macy’s Also Gets Slapped With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Black Shopper'']. Huff Post. 25 October 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2021.</ref>
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In consequence, Macy's has agreed to a settle over complaints of racial profiling in it's flagship New York City store. The department store will pay $650,000, according to a statement from the New York attorney general's office.<ref>Farrinton, Dana. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/08/20/342005509/macys-to-pay-650-000-in-settlement-over-alleged-racial-profiling ''Macy's To Pay $650,000 In Settlement Over Alleged Racial Profiling'']. NPR. 20 August 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2021.</ref>
  
 
This isn’t the first time Macy’s has dealt with a racial discrimination lawsuit. In 2005, the company paid New York state $600,000 to settle a complaint that it's New York department stores were racially profiling shoppers and unlawful handcuffing them while they were being detained on suspicion of shoplifting. Eliot Spitzer, the state attorney general who investigate the case found that most of people detained at a sampling of Macy's stores around the state were black and Latino.<ref name=time>Elliott, Andrea. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/nyregion/macys-settles-complaint-of-racial-profiling-for-600000.html ''Macy's Settles Complaint of Racial Profiling for $600,000'']. The New York Times. 14 January 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2021.</ref>
 
This isn’t the first time Macy’s has dealt with a racial discrimination lawsuit. In 2005, the company paid New York state $600,000 to settle a complaint that it's New York department stores were racially profiling shoppers and unlawful handcuffing them while they were being detained on suspicion of shoplifting. Eliot Spitzer, the state attorney general who investigate the case found that most of people detained at a sampling of Macy's stores around the state were black and Latino.<ref name=time>Elliott, Andrea. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/nyregion/macys-settles-complaint-of-racial-profiling-for-600000.html ''Macy's Settles Complaint of Racial Profiling for $600,000'']. The New York Times. 14 January 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2021.</ref>

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Macy's Flagship Store Herald Square 2018

Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, the holding company was renamed Macy's, Inc. in 2007.[1]

As of 2015, Macy's was the largest U.S. department store company by retail sales. As of October 31, 2020, there were 544 stores (605 boxes), including 11 flagships (16 boxes) and 384 magnets (429 boxes), for a total of 395 core stores (445 boxes), and 92 neighborhood stores (98 boxes, for a total of 544 full line stores), 48 furniture galleries (53 boxes), 2 furniture clearance centers, 6 freestanding Backstage stores and 1 Market by Macy's with the Macy's nameplate in operation throughout the United States.[2] By the end of October 2020, Macy's has 90,000 employees and 746 store approximately.

Controversy

Racial Profiling
Actor Robert Brown, who’s most known for his starring role opposite Sean Connery in the film “Finding Forrester,” has filled a civil suit for an unspecified sum against the luxury retail store and the New York Police Department, citing that he was unlawfully searched by undercover police officers on June 8, 2013. The actor, who is black, was stopped after making a purchase at the Sunglass Hut store located inside Macy’s flagship location in New York’s Herald Square.

According to the Manhattan Supreme Court suit, Brown presented his ID to the cops but “was told that his identification was false and that he could not afford to make such an expensive purchase.” The Brooklyn resident says he was then arrested and detained by cops for over an hour before finally being released without any charges.

“It’s an epidemic. It’s unbelievable,” Nicholas Elefterakis, Brown’s attorney, told The Post.[3]

In consequence, Macy's has agreed to a settle over complaints of racial profiling in it's flagship New York City store. The department store will pay $650,000, according to a statement from the New York attorney general's office.[4]

This isn’t the first time Macy’s has dealt with a racial discrimination lawsuit. In 2005, the company paid New York state $600,000 to settle a complaint that it's New York department stores were racially profiling shoppers and unlawful handcuffing them while they were being detained on suspicion of shoplifting. Eliot Spitzer, the state attorney general who investigate the case found that most of people detained at a sampling of Macy's stores around the state were black and Latino.[5]

According to Mr. Spitzer's complaint, blacks and Latinos claimed that they were followed, questioned and searched by security guards in several Macy's stores based solely on the customers' race and ethnicity.

Apology

Macy's officials said the company's formal policy banning racial and ethnic profiling was ignored by employees of the stores investigated by Mr. Spitzer.

The company also said it would train employees more extensively on how to avoid discrimination and hire an outside company to perform anonymous audits on security employees to see if they treat customers differently based on race and ethnicity yet the incident happened again in the next few years.[5]

References

  1. Macy's. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  2. Store Count and Square Footage. Macysinc.com. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  3. Wilson, Julee. Macy’s Also Gets Slapped With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Black Shopper. Huff Post. 25 October 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  4. Farrinton, Dana. Macy's To Pay $650,000 In Settlement Over Alleged Racial Profiling. NPR. 20 August 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Elliott, Andrea. Macy's Settles Complaint of Racial Profiling for $600,000. The New York Times. 14 January 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2021.