Four former CVS store detectives are pursuing legal action against the drug store chain, claiming that personnel in multiple New York City CVS stores are actively profiling black and Latino customers.

As reported in the New York Times, the lawsuit, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, alleges that the former workers were fired after they complained about racial discrimination that they felt was directed against customers as well as at themselves.

CVS has 30 days to respond to the lawsuit.

According to ABC News, a spokesman for the drug store chain offered a statement.

"CVS Health has firm nondiscrimination policies that it rigorously enforces," the statement read. "We serve all communities and we do not tolerate any policy or practice that discriminates against any group. We are shocked by the allegations in this complaint and we intend to defend against them vigorously."

David Gottlieb, an attorney who represents the plaintiffs, informed ABC News that the lawsuit does not specify the actual number of stores in the New York City area where his clients claim they experienced discrimination.

"This was not a situation where it was not one or two stores or one or two managers," Gottlieb said.

"This scheme was perpetrated by multiple managers and directors in the loss prevention department of CVS and many store managers. I don’t have an exact number. This is not an isolated situation but an institutional problem at CVS," Gottlieb added.

The four former workers, who happen to all be non-whites, claim in the suit that the company purposelly targets and "racially profiles" blacks and Latinos on the stereotype that they are "criminals and thieves."

The plaintiffs contend that two supervisors in CVS’s loss-prevention department routinely instructed them to racially profile nonwhite shoppers.