Huffington Magazine Issue 78 | Page 42

JIN LEE/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES On the sales floor at the Madison Avenue flagship store of Barneys New York, salespeople would joke about customers who, in their view, didn’t belong. ¶ Often, those jokes would be aimed at the black customers, a former sales associate at the store told The Huffington Post. The Barneys department store on Madison Avenue in New York.