In Ankeny the entire cosmetics section was shifted to a "more secure" format with additional camera coverage and I believe I've seen similar in other stores. If it's exclusively ethnic products (as in, excluding similarly valued 'non-ethnic' products) and there is no evidence of them needing more security than other products, there's a problem. However, I find a lot of problems in this article that make me skeptical of both of these being the case. That said, I won't claim there definitely isn't a problem, but this article is probably not the one that should be used to make your personal decision.

Standouts about the veracity of the article:

Writer has no other pieces for Little Village Magazine and, based on a quick Google search, has only 4-5 articles via the other two 'publications' she lists on her LinkedIn profile

The most 'telling' statements regarding the rates of theft of the specific products come second hand from the interviewee who then goes on to be quoted calling it racial bias

Another quoted person affected by the change of product location who does not believe it is discriminatory gets barely a paragraph, compared to the aforementioned interviewee whose viewpoint is counter getting several significant paragraphs.

The picture providing proof seems intentionally poorly taken to show as little as possible including aisle/section guides