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Chicago Mayor Now Pleading With Walmart And Other Companies Not To Leave The City
Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/09/2020 | By Mike LaChance

Posted on 06/09/2020 10:32:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

After the recent riots which saw multiple large stores looted, some retailers are having second thoughts about remaining in certain cities.

In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been talking to these retailers and asking them not to leave the city.

Not only do these companies make it possible for residents to get the things they need, they pay tons of taxes which the city relies on.

WBBM News reports:

TRENDING: Chicago Mayor Now Pleading With Walmart And Other Companies Not To Leave The City

Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart, Other Retailers To Not Abandon Chicago

Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest.

Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

“I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the extent of what’s left so it doesn’t perish, and other perishables, and they are taking their time, as I would expect.”

Who can blame these companies if they leave the cities?

The same thing is happening in Minneapolis:

A manufacturing company that has been in Minneapolis since 1987 has decided to leave the city.

The company’s owner said he can’t trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots: “They don’t care about my business.” https://t.co/rMcZgudJCb

— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 8, 2020

Dear Minneapolis, once you drive the business (and their tax revenue) and the job (and their tax revenue) out of your city, do you expect me to pay your bills?

Guess again https://t.co/NJPukyL0kT

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) June 8, 2020

The cities hit by riots will be damaged by it for a long time.

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Cross posted from American Lookout.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; chicago; exodus; protests; walmart
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To: Grampa Dave

Say yes to the dress. What a peach.


61 posted on 06/09/2020 11:46:03 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Here in our house, we can’t be thankful enought that we’re not city dwellers.


62 posted on 06/09/2020 11:48:28 AM PDT by keats5
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of cheap land here in Raleigh NC.


63 posted on 06/09/2020 11:53:08 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: MuttTheHoople

From what planet is this thing?


64 posted on 06/09/2020 12:00:17 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lemur’s gone cracra..


65 posted on 06/09/2020 12:02:42 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: gdzla

Do a Google search on “I am Groot Mayor”

https://www.google.com/search?q=i+am+groot+mayor&tbm=isch


66 posted on 06/09/2020 12:16:38 PM PDT by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: DownInFlames

RE: Lots of cheap land here in Raleigh, NC

Wasn’t it in your state where white police officers and guilt ridden white politicians knelt and washed the feet of black activists?


67 posted on 06/09/2020 12:17:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

That was the whole idea to keep the citizens on the plantation.


68 posted on 06/09/2020 12:23:19 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So much GOOD news in the real news today that it softens the heart of this old conservative and lets me know all is not lost!-)


69 posted on 06/09/2020 12:27:43 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: rktman

If my memory serves me correctly, it wasn’t all that long ago that Chicago politicians tried to keep Walmart out of the city...


70 posted on 06/09/2020 12:30:25 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: EVO X

Walmart to Mayor Lori Lightfoot: “Wash my feet.”


71 posted on 06/09/2020 12:36:41 PM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: SeekAndFind
How did you address President Trump?

Right back at you!

72 posted on 06/09/2020 12:36:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal city slow motion sewercides. Happening or about to happen all over the country.

My advice: JUMP!!


73 posted on 06/09/2020 12:39:14 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wal-MArt should get the hell out of Minneapolis and Chicago and any other city where the crazies attacked.
Let them eat sand.


74 posted on 06/09/2020 12:49:46 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats hate walmart and want it shut down.
Democrats begging for walmart not to leave.


75 posted on 06/09/2020 12:56:00 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: SeekAndFind

Walmart is a woke corporation who had made billion$ from Chinese slave labor. I avoided shopping there for years, both both of my local K-Marts shut down. I forced to occasionally use them
It’s my understanding, anyone shopping g at a suburban Walmart is subsidizing urban stores. The theft at urban stores is so great they make nothing no profit there.


76 posted on 06/09/2020 1:11:24 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut up, you horrible monster.

Chicago deserves whatever evil you wreak.


77 posted on 06/09/2020 1:18:10 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: CMailBag

Info on damage is non existent The MSM is going out of their way not to report it. I did find that seven Walgreens were burned;

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/6/2/21278704/chicago-looting-pharmacies-walgreens-cvs-walmart-lori-lightfoot-tammy-duckworth-prescription

Until they get some assurances of security from the city they shouldn’t move one brick.


78 posted on 06/09/2020 2:29:50 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Free the TVs!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably. Lots of libs in the city.


79 posted on 06/09/2020 4:07:01 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: Bonemaker

thats what I was thinkin... they probably get ripped off so often they have been just looking for a reason to leave anyway...


80 posted on 06/09/2020 4:18:45 PM PDT by sit-rep
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