Why don't they quit separating hair products at the grocery store!!!

[Inches411]

interesting thread. truth is. i hardly get any products from the ethnic eisle anymore. I think I only use ors and hollywood beauty cream thats it. But yea its sad that its like this but shoot when i go over to the non ethnic eisle people can stare all they want cause my hair is always banging so its not like they can even talk say anything bad about me using " their " products.

 

[SleepyJean]

Im not so bothered. Our hair is different. IMHO VERY different and it just makes it quicker and easier for me to find what I want. Just like ethnic foods. When you have to shop all over the store for this and that trying to make a taco and bam they have all teh tortillas and spices and sazon in one spot?! Makes shopping easier for me.

I was about to say that...Now y'all know our hair is different! Black people do tend to have much tighter curls than other races and not only that. Our curl patterns vary so much amongst us. Of course there are exceptions. Some latinos have hair just as curly as ours...some jews...hell maybe some Asians(doubt it). For the most part, our hair is the only hair with curls as tight as ours. I think our hair is a huge enigma to people whom aren't black. Our hair is different...we are indeed special! I think someone mentioned that before. The people who organize these aisles also know black hair care is a billion dollar industry...they want us to see those products. Both of those reasons substantiate why we have and probably will continue to have that "ethnic section".

I also wish they would get rid of that section, though. Most of the products are exactly the same as the non-black products. The only difference in ingredients is usually an addition of petrolatum and mineral oil! barf

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

Maybe we should hold a rally at a major convenience/grocery store, call in the news, then hold hands around the defunct aisle and sing "We shall overcome"

 

[envybeauty]

Maybe we should hold a rally at a major convenience/grocery store, call in the news, then hold hands around the defunct aisle and sing "We shall overcome"

if that doesn't work....chant " No justice, no peace" with a bullhorn

 

[Soul♥Flower]

if that doesn't work....chant " No justice, no peace" with a bullhorn

or "No Justice, no Ching" ...
I'll bet they'll really change some stuff up then. lol

 

[envybeauty]

You are wasting your time if you are trying to figure out why they do what they do.

Somebody back in the 60's prolly asked for a "Negro" hair care section, so they are doing us a favor by giving us our own 2 foot area, instead of us having to sift thru hundreds of "their products".

EXACTLY.....

Black folks probably did a lot to get them to carry the measly amount of products that they do carry NOW (as if Walmart always had an ethnic anything). Target could care less about selling some toxic box of lye which sits on the shelves for weeks with less turnaround than Clairol color.

I am glad that they have a separate section. I am different from Becky and I see no reason why EVERYTHING I do, use, taste, etc. has to blend in with what Becky and em does, uses, tastes, etc....

ETA: I hardly use that stuff anyway. I wanna know why don't they carry LYE perms. All the perms are no-lye.

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

if that doesn't work....chant " No justice, no peace" with a bullhorn

I think we need to call in Al and Jesse Maybe even Don.....King

 

[envybeauty]

I think we need to call in Al and Jesse Maybe even Don.....King

that rufus.... is his hair all grey by now.

Al needs his hair care products. Easier for him to run in, grab a kit, and run out.

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

that rufus.... is his hair all grey by now.

Al needs his hair care products. Easier for him to run in, grab a kit, and run out.

Al is ALWAYS looking like he need a touchup.

 

[Soul♥Flower]

I think we need to call in Al and Jesse Maybe even Don.....King

oh no, no, no. He would just sabotage our cause.

Their respone: "See this is why you people have your own section"

 

[Jassy28]

Now that you mentioned it, I just realized that the pantene relaxed and natural is not in the the little ethnic section. At my local CVS just before the boarderline. erplexed

so where in the world do they stock the pantene relaxed and natural stuff?

oh wait, it's in a brown bottle so must be in the brown aisle?

yall have a point.............

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

oh no, no, no. He would just sabotage our cause.

Their respone: "See this is why you people have your own section"

GUFFAW!

 

[Jassy28]

I know this is of topic, but I was checking out the spanish beauty section the other day and some of it grabbed my interest, but I couldnt figure out what was what or what to do with it. Everything was in spanish. If you dont mind can you pm me and let me know what you are using. Thanks.
Oh, sorry for jacking the thread

I see white and latina/hispanic women in the "ethnic" section all the time lately. I stay in both sections too. I used to think of it like that as "black" products and "nonblack" products but since Im black and can also find products beneficial to my hair outside that "ethnic"section, I don't think like that anymore. It doesn't bother me. Most of the collections seem to be together. Or I see it as the quality/higher priced products grouped together. I just get conditioners(&shampoos) from one end and go to the other end if I want a oil , oil moisturizer or grease. Shoot, lately people can see me in that Spanish products section grabbing aceite this and aceite that. Even my moisturizing face creme says "crema..." and is from that section. It's one of the best I've ever used and is the cheapest of all.

Even though it doesn't bother me, at the same time it would be nice to see all the product lines/collections together though. but I rarely run into traffic whenever Im in the hair aisles getting my fav products (love HE and Dove ) and I hope that wouldn't change with everything being together.

 

[Eiano]

I worked in a grovery store and know that companies pay for shelf space and the stores place a value on where their product is located on the shelf.... that being said companies like Herbal Essences and Pantene tend to pay more to have their hair care products on the top level of the shelf.. while the Optimum Care and Luster's don't....

 

[dinaaike]

I worked in a grovery store and know that companies pay for shelf space and the stores place a value on where their product is located on the shelf.... that being said companies like Herbal Essences and Pantene tend to pay more to have their hair care products on the top level of the shelf.. while the Optimum Care and Luster's don't....

But do they pay such a discounted rate that they are kicked out of the hair care aisle completely? If they pay less, will we find their stuff in with soups? Cambell's, Progresso, Optimum Care...

I can see putting "ethnic" things in a special section of the "hair care" aisle, but to boot it into a "special" aisle... erplexed Is what we have not exactly hair? Because if it is, why not just put in in the "hair care" aisle. Why should we need "special" marketing and "special" ingredients? Market it like everything else: by lying , and put stuff in it that's good for hair.

 

[HoneyDew]

It does not bother me. I Hardly use them anyway. My local grocery store has Profectiv relaxers, which is very unusual, and they are cheaper than the BSS so that is all I ever get from them.

But, I have been in areas, like LA for example, and the CVS will have beauty products from Latin America all in one section. There are Korean BSS all over the place for "ethnic hair care" and you hardly ever see something like Garnier and Tresemme in there, although I do see white women going in there these days.

And honestly, the first time some store combines them all, somebody would say something to the manager. I bet you the majority of black women (not including the average LHCF'er who DOES NOT represent the average black female hair care consumer at all) would not like it if they combined all the products.

Does not bother me one bit. I need an easy way to locate my Profectiv Regular No-Lye kit so I can get the heck out of there.

 

[queen_t]

And honestly, the first time some store combines them all, somebody would say something to the manager. I bet you the majority of black women (not including the average LHCF'er who DOES NOT represent the average black female hair care consumer at all) would not like it if they combined all the products.

Right, not everyone has our "LHCF knowledge". Ya'll know Clitora Jackson still believes her hair will fall out if she washes it daily! They target the separate section towards women like her.

 

[Kimberly]

You are so right and it's a shame.

I was walking past Bubbles Hair salon some months ago and in the window they have tons of products, however behind the counter/register all the products geared toward ethnic hair - Keracare, Mizani, PhytoSpecific, etc... Shoot they may as well have been locked uperplexed

So, being the mini-rebel that I am, I asked to speak with a manger to find out why. It was a young white guy, gay and he said in a straight face: It was company policy to keep those products in that area and then gave me a "you know what they trying to say" look.

I ended up writing a letter to Bubbles, but haven't heard back.

ETA: I don't have a problem with it being in a different area really, I just don;t think it needs to be 'protected'

At the Dollar General around the corner, the ethnic health and beauty aisle is the first aisle in the store and they keep the rack holding umbrellas and the rack of sunglasses and, recently, a line of shopping carts blocking people from being able to grab something and dash out the door. They also keep the doo-rags, satin bonnets, and head scarves behind the register.

As if black people are the only ones that steal. But at least, at this store, we do have a whole aisle of beauty products. The Latinos have to share theirs with food and literally have a space about 2 feet wide reserved for their beauty with those candles with Jesus on them taking up the bottom two shelves.

I think they keep them separated because they don't want people to start getting curious and comparing ingredients and comparing prices. They can put "gro" on anything after they fillit half way with mineraloil and/or petrolatum and charge *us* and extra $1.50 for it.

 

[Missi]

i feel the same way: when I think about it further: why don't the "non ethnic" section don't have hair grease, relaxers, and other types of hair oils: hair is hair: thats why we're so misguided now. We think we need different hair products.