All WalMarts in Portland to close

[Alamo]

Other media say Walmarts outside Portland city limits but in metro area will remain open (for now…) but last two in the City will close by end of March.

 

[Shadow01]

Probably need to have a few more “mostly peaceful protests” to see if they can convince Wally to stay open

 

[JCSR]

Go be poor some place else

 

[actaeon277]

Image that.
Crime causes problems.

Who'da thunk it?

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Won't this disenfranchise the Antifa community? In a deep Melvin Franklin voice I say " and that ain't right".

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

 

[actaeon277]

 

[gassprint1]

Well if it's that big a problem, i probably would shut down too. I find it pretty pathetic in some of those videos that the person thinks or acts like its a huge deal why a business doesn't say why they are closing.

 

[rob63]

Well if it's that big a problem, i probably would shut down too. I find it pretty pathetic in some of those videos that the person thinks or acts like its a huge deal why a business doesn't say why they are closing.

Honestly, I wish the businesses actually would just come out and say why they are closing. Being tight-lipped about it allows the idiots that created the insane policies to hide behind the fact that the businesses never actually said that shoplifting is a problem. I also understand them not wanting to say anything, they probably are afraid of it being twisted by the cancel-culture crowd to make them the bad guy.

It all kind of illustrates how these things play into each other. The creation of a culture that punishes you for speaking inconvenient truths leads to people continuing to support idiotic policies as a result of ongoing ignorance of the actual consequences. Some people figure it out anyway, but far too many don't.

 

[Ark]

Go be poor some place else

 

[gassprint1]

Honestly, I wish the businesses actually would just come out and say why they are closing. Being tight-lipped about it allows the idiots that created the insane policies to hide behind the fact that the businesses never actually said that shoplifting is a problem. I also understand them not wanting to say anything, they probably are afraid of it being twisted by the cancel-culture crowd to make them the bad guy.

It all kind of illustrates how these things play into each other. The creation of a culture that punishes you for speaking inconvenient truths leads to people continuing to support idiotic policies as a result of ongoing ignorance of the actual consequences. Some people figure it out anyway, but far too many don't.

I believe a similar thing happened in i think California with krogers

 

[Leadeye]

Honestly, I wish the businesses actually would just come out and say why they are closing. Being tight-lipped about it allows the idiots that created the insane policies to hide behind the fact that the businesses never actually said that shoplifting is a problem. I also understand them not wanting to say anything, they probably are afraid of it being twisted by the cancel-culture crowd to make them the bad guy.

It all kind of illustrates how these things play into each other. The creation of a culture that punishes you for speaking inconvenient truths leads to people continuing to support idiotic policies as a result of ongoing ignorance of the actual consequences. Some people figure it out anyway, but far too many don't.

I agree, if you want to get your point across that the leadership is off track don't be coy about it. Sometimes it just takes somebody to say they have had enough and leave to start the exodus.

Close every store in the state.

 

[mark40sw]

"Food Deserts"
A couple years ago, these areas were the scenes of riots in the name of social justice. Merchants were looted and ransacked.

 

[mark40sw]

 

[Colt556]

Not surprised. A very similar situation is ongoing right here in Indianapolis in the so called “Food Desert” where grocery stores, even the minority owned small stores, are closing down because of loss and crime. Everyone seems to tread lightly and pussyfoot around the true causes and blame the stores themselves for “Abandoning “ the neighborhoods. Now the people, and criminals, are spreading out further from Marion Co and bringing the crime with them.

 

[Mgderf]

You reap what you sow.
Portland has allowed/ encouraged lawlessness and unrest in their streets for decades now.
No sympathy whatsoever.
You liberal idiots have made your bed and now you can lie in it.

 

[blain]

The media were also befuddled and a little outraged when the Philadelphia gas station owner hired armed guards to protect his business and customers.
I guess some think that people should be lemmings, carrying on with life, being robbed and assaulted and not push back.
Businesses in high crime areas have four choices...
1. Stay quiet and just keep taking whatever criminals decide to do. (not sustainable over the long haul)
2. Create such an uproar that it galvanizes their communities to toss out current administrations and usher in law & order leadership. (very effective, but could take longer than the business can survive)
3. Take matters into their own hands and provide for the security of their business and customers. (expensive, but effective in the short run)
4. Shut the doors and go out of business. (sadly, probably the most realistic option)

 

[Super Bee]

I am hearing rumors the Walmart on the south side of Fort Wayne is considering closing down as well. Built on the same land which once occupied the beautiful Southtown Mall. The clientele on this end of town does not seem to be getting the message. Dont shoplift from the stores, dont mug the customers as they come out and do not steal their cars while they are inside shopping. This type of behavior tends to keep people away.

 

[Leadeye]

I think the issue no one wants to talk about is the city machine/criminal constituency relationship. I hear all the time about how the residents of these areas don't want the crime, but each election many communities simply double down and keep the same machine in power that does nothing to help them. Why?

Do the voting citizens have such an attachment to criminals and antipathy to law enforcement that they are willing see thier neighborhoods becoming more like an Escape from NY movie set? There certainly is leadership out there that will gladly bleed communities dry while providing them with this scenario.

 

[Leo]

"Food Deserts"
A couple years ago, these areas were the scenes of riots in the name of social justice. Merchants were looted and ransacked.

That is exactly right. I lived through that in Gary in the 60's / 70's. Crooks elected in '67 allowed crime to prosper, the stores did not, It got worse and worse until even the huge corporate stores with hired armed guards could not survive. My Grandfather drove grandmother and 3 widow women to a store in the next town over every Saturday so they could get food.

A cowardly professor from Vanderbilt, spending your tax dollars, made a documentary about how racist white people in Indiana caused the food desert in Gary to destroy the city. I sent him my rebuttal about all the points where the Vanderbilt presentation was errant and some of it simply fabricated. I was there, I experienced it first hand. They refused to address my questions and when I again pushed, they completely erased and closed any public dialog. When tenured Professors become fiction writers for a socialist agendas they are immoral. When they refuse open dialog with eye witnesses, they are pathetic.

Criminals are seldom voted in by productive, law abiding, citizens. That is why the left spends their time building the illegal, unproductive criminal, welfare voter base. They are more easily bought.