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WESTGATE CENTER Next to Cargo Bay 268-4353 MABLETON, Ga. - A drug store chain is under fire for al legedly putting anti-theft tags on more black-oriented products than ones used by whites. Com pany officials denied the claim. “This is not a race issue. This is a shoplifting issue/' said Bobby W. Little, vice president of store operations for Big B Inc., which operates 350 stores in the South east, including 18 Drugs for Less. “We're looking for items that we know are being pilfered in stores," he said Tuesday. “Lots of these are teen-age related more than anything else." The Atlanta Journal-Constitu tion reported Tuesday that at least two Drugs for Less in the At lanta area placed security tags on products aimed at blacks, while similar products for whites had no security devices. Bruce Roberts, assistant gener al counsel for the Southeast re gion of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was among critics who said the tagging scheme implied blacks were more likely than whites to shoplift. "A red flag was justifiably raised by the existence of tags on African-American products ver sus non-African-American prod ucts," he said. Films, batteries, razor blades, diapers, headache powders and condoms were among the items the company has been tagging for several months with 11/2-inch black and white plastic bars. Little said. The bars set off alarms at stores' front doors if they are not removed at checkout counters. At the Mableton store in sub urban Atlanta, most of the goods were tagged in a section of pre dominantly black products such as Curly Perm gel activator and African Pride Hair & Scalp Spray. Coffee-colored Afro-tique stockings were tagged. Next to them, a row of identical white- colored hosiery was not. Not all of the store's black items were tagged — at the cos metics counter, one line of make up for dark complexions was tagged while another was not. Little said 15 percent of the merchandise in a typical Drugs for Less store is tagged. About 10 percent of the tagged merchan dise is aimed at blacks, he said. Fritch AaiggaK/Someone help me ( I We Family Gccus Head Di 6«flse ( \ OF my heod/ TFfeels sd SujoUe/v! XF mutF .pressurized u»Hh exars&We amounts of SvcWy-S^eet-, Cutsie dialogue! My head Aeeds Fa be lanced and dfdmed. Hy gosU, my heads So big barely any focm -fcr my dialogue/ Hcmnny ‘ FlervifM bead feels libe n libe vFs ganna po dnd naze fluid li b'i<9 Foe blisters. 1 / SPAC half-doz 24 worki j implicate governm The I iLightnii NASA e kickback formatic Houstoi News, [sources. 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