Skin Colour: Eaton Centre and Shopping Experiences

skin colour: To clarify, CRP occurs when a person is targeted as suspicious, or perceived as a threat based on assumptions, and informed by biases held by employees or security, according to Huffington Post Canada. These unconscious or conscious biases usually draw on stereotypes about the targeted person's race, ethnicity, skin colour, place of origin and other factors including gender, age, and perceived socio-economic status . Shoppers make their way through the Eaton Centre in Toronto,Canada on Dec. 26, 2015. This light is where consumer racial profiling is no longer part of the daily shopping experiences of many racialized and indigenous consumers in Ontario. Photo Gettystock Through my work at Prevent CRP, I have listened to community members share their consumer racial profiling stories. In other cases, people share their experiences of being stopped and searched by plain clothed loss prevention employees in front of other customers. In some cases, the person recalls being followed too closely or being treated rudely by staff or security. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.