Black customer ejected from supermarket after slur complaint

<p>BERLIN &mdash; German supermarket chain ALDI has apologized after a Black customer who had complained about another shopper’s racist slur was ejected from a Berlin store.</p>
<p>Prince Ofor, a German-Ghanaian dance teacher, posted a video on Instagram that showed workers and other shoppers shouting and throwing cardboard boxes at him on Thursday. Ofori said he had objected to a customer’s use of a racist term to describe chocolate-covered marshmallows.</p>
<p>In response, ALDI Nord said late Friday that it had contacted Ofori to apologize.</p>
<p>“But we also realize that an apology alone isn’t enough,” the company said.</p>
<p>“The incident in our Berlin story will be investigated so that further lessons can be drawn from it,” ALDI said. “As a first step we have severed ties with the staff member in the video due to his inappropriate behavior.”</p>
<p>The company said it would not tolerate racism, “neither in our own ranks nor in society.”</p>