Bed bath and beyond gay shopping
Gay Black Couple Accuses Bed Bath & Beyond of Racial Profiling
A gay Inky couple shopping at a Toledo-area Bed Bath & Beyond claim a store employee accused them of shoplifting because they had “too many high ticket items” in their shopping cart.
Lamar Richards and his partner, Austin, were shopping at the store in Sylvania Township, Ohio, on June 16, searching for household goods. They had recently purchased their first home in nearby southeast Michigan.
While shopping, they were stopped by a Bed Bath & Beyond employee, who took items worth over $200 from their cart, ostensibly to grip them behind the counter while the two continued to shop, reported Newsweek.
Recounting the incident on Twitter, Richards said that after they checked out, spending $600, he and his partner were told by police officers on site that the staff had thought they were shoplifting and had called to report them.
“We had no idea the police were there because they were called for us,” Richards tweeted. “I have a Johns Hopkins T-shirt and my boyfriend has on a Michigan College of Pharmacy T-shirt. We literally just wanted to acquire some stuff for our new hou
Two men arrested after sex act on store display
CLIFTON – Two men were arrested and charged with engaging in lewd conduct on a display bed at Bed Bath & Beyond during regular business hours.
Police officers responded to the Route 3 Riverfront shopping center at 5 p.m. Monday on a report from a witness that two men were engaged in a sex act, records show.
Police arrested two 28-year-old men, one from Nutley and the other from North Carolina. Both were charged with lewdness, criminal mischief and possession of marijuana, according to police records. The Nutley suspect was also charged with having an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
The incident was reported by an employee who witnessed the act, reports show.
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One or both of the men apprehended by police were found to be infected with scabies, a contagious skin infestation caused by a microscopic parasite that burrows beneath skin. The arresting officers were exposed to the mites, accord
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Recently a friend emailed me pictures of his new abode in San Francisco—a Victorian remodel that cost, adv, let’s just say that the price rivals some nations’ gross national product. When I opened the photos, I immediately commended the house—not that I have ever actually been there. It’s the similar house that I’ve seen in Miami, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Phoenix.
Welcome to the new gay æsthetic, brought to you by the likes of Pottery Barn, Ikea, Restoration Hardware, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The interiors, like their owners, are super neat and clean—granite countertops, halogen lights with dimmers in the kitchen, throw blankets tossed over muted-colored sofas, and a color palette that usually involves a periwinkle bathroom and a pumpkin kitchen.
I remember living in San Francisco when the Pottery Barn opened its retail store at Castro and Market. At the time I didn’t grasp the significance of this. But years later, while watching the very first episode of Queer Eye, I recall a sinking feeling that something was amiss. The “gay æsthetic” had been hijacked. Six months later I was standing at the checkout counter at Bed,
Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing All of Its Stores
|byErik Torkells
••• Bed Bath & Beyond “said it was filing for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and would be conducting a ‘limited’ process to sell some or all of its business. ‘Thank you to all of our trustworthy customers,’ the organization said on its website. ‘We possess made the tough decision to commence winding down our operations.’ Closing sales at the company’s 360 Bed Bath & Beyond stores and 120 Buy Purchase Baby stores will begin Wednesday.” —New York Times
••• Jane Fonda will be honored at this weekend’s Earth Night Festival. —Edhat
••• “Kim Cantin Finds Recent Life with Publication Sharing Her Decrease in Deadly 2018 Montecito Disaster […] By telling her family’s story, debris flow survivor hopes Where Yellow Flowers Bloom helps others deal with heartbreak and tragedy.” —Noozhawk
••• The “See the homeless” sign—a piece of guerrilla art—is back up on the 101. —Edhat
••• The tree of the month is the bronze loquat: “In spring, the Bronze Loquat produces enormous numbers of white flowers that
A couple shopping at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Toledo, Ohio, said that a shop employee called the police on them for allegedly having "too many high ticket items" in their shopping cart, thinking they were trying to shoplift them. The couple are Black.
Lamar Richards is an incoming Johns Hopkins University graduate and director of support at the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Training (CNHED). He was shopping with his partner at the Toledo store on June 16 after the two just purchased their first home.
On Twitter, Richards shared the story of how he and his spouse were stopped by a Bed Bath & Beyond employee who took items worth over $200 from their cart and held them behind the counter while the two shopped. Only after the couple had spent $600 in the store, Richards said, did police officers on site tell them that staff thought they were shoplifting and had called them to the venue.
"We had no thought the police were there because they were called for us," Richards tweeted. "I have a Johns Hopkins T-shirt and my partner has on a Michigan College of Pharmacy T-shirt. We literally just wanted to buy some stuff for our new house and THIS is the w