Ex-Workers Accuse CVS of Racial Discrimination Against Shoppers

Four former store detectives employed by CVS in New York filed a class-action lawsuit against the drugstore chain last week, accusing their bosses of ordering them to target black and Hispanic shoppers. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, also alleged that the detectives were fired after they complained about racial discrimination, against both customers and themselves. The plaintiffs, all of whom are either black or Hispanic, contend in their suit that two supervisors in CVS’s loss-prevention department, overseeing stores in Manhattan and Queens, regularly told them to racially profile nonwhite shoppers.