This is nothing but click bait and comment bait. Slow news day.

That Safeway sucks for sooooo many reasons

it's a lousy store that has to deal with many lousy [people every day. I would have low tolerance for any perceived shenanigans as well. It's like when you're area keeps getting hit with burglaries. eventually you start calling the cops on anyone who stops to just use their cell phone on your street. This particular instance is a non-story.

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It does not only happen to people of color. Profiling, not just racial, occurs frequently. Just ask people who are relaxing in a park when the police tell them a neighbor complained that her kids were scared.

Just because someone screams "Problem" does not mean it is always so.
Insults mask other things.

I can’t believe some of the people on this discussion. Racial profiling is prevalent in our society as we see increased violence against minorities and innocent citizens of our country being harassed by paranoid employees and some rogue police officers, not the majority, who racially profile people on a daily basis. They say there are lousy people at the Shoreline Safeway is really a racist comment. If you’ve never been followed in store because I think you might be shoplifting then you’re one of the lucky ones. My friends and I have been harassed for many different reasons, race, appearance are only two examples. During this
.period in our country it seems like racial profiling and deep seeded racism is coming more acceptable. Please think of all the people out there who deserve to live their lives do good things and not be profiled for their parents their race their sexualit please think of all the people out there who deserve to live their lives do good things and not be profiled for their appearance their race Or their sexual identity. Please just give this a chance and be kind to all our citizens.

Mary, do you too truly not realize that you are reading slants *of* *your* *own* into the comments above, and that this behavior is part of the very problem around the slippery "racial profiling" issue that others here are commenting on?

Many residents notice transient, marginal, possibly homeless people around the parking lot at Bailey-Park Safeway (I have seen them; FWIW in my experience, and other reports I've seen, these people have been ethnically diverse but mostly white). Yet when "Nah" mentions this familiar reality, you immediately label the comment "racist." There was nothing remotely race-related in the comment you criticized -- that aspect of it came from your own perception.

Thanks to the Voice Editorial Board for writing this. It is true that being black/brown in America means your very existence is suspect.

Some of the comments above indicate to me that there are still many vocal elements and people in our society who either have not taken, or refuse to take the time to acknowledge and think about the ways race affects interactions with other people.

Let's face it. Mtn View has a lot of liberal elite wealthy residents who are racist. No big surprise. The employees of Safeway r just reflecting the sentiment of Mtn. View residents and the city council. This is especially true of the no growth groups. They think they are special and that they should be the ones that decide who gets to lives in Mtn View.

This section is supposed to be Top Stories (aka NEWS), and not OPINION. There already is far too much opinion labeled as news in today's NEWS media. If The Voice wants to print opinion and follow journalistic ethics, it should start a third section to Express labeled --- "Opinion". Duh! Hopefully, it won't be used very often.

The only stealing going on at that Safeway is my time being stolen from waiting in those LONG LINES

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@William Hitchens >>> "This section is supposed to be Top Stories (aka NEWS), and not OPINION. "

The first word in the headline is "Editorial". The very definition of that means it is an opinion piece, a common practice in newspapers all over the world since, well, forever. It's not uncommon for them to be on the front page either.
Read every word in the story, even the headline and most importantly, look up the words you do not understand.

Editorial: a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.

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I don't entirely agree, but I appreciate having a local newspaper that brings local context to national issues.