Posted on 04/11/2023 12:02:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
Welp, there's one more Democrat city losing America's most popular retail chain because they refuse to do anything about crime.
Recently, Walmart closed their last remaining store in the Commie paradise of Portland, and now the retail giant is announcing that they are closing 4 of their 8 stores in the metropolis of Chicago.
Here's Walmart's explanation for why they're closing half of the stores in Chiraq:
The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties, but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community.
Their losses DOUBLED in just the last five years? Hmm, I wonder what bank-breaking things have happened in the last five years?
It couldn't be that five years ago, in 2018, the City of Chicago artificially increased the minimum wage by nearly 60%, only to continue to increase year after year from that time.
Surely that Democrat policy only made the stores more profitable, right?
And it couldn't have anything to do with the tremendous crime wave that's swept the United States since the George Floyd riots!
Chicago used to be one of the great American cities. Even when it was run by the machine politics of Mayor Daly it wasn't as bad as it is today under Lightfoot and the new mayor Brandon Johnson who will continue bad policy.
All of this is going down in Chicago as the Democrats plan to hold the DNC in the Democrat city.
Which means the hoodrats are coming to your nice Chicagoland suburb to do their shopping.
The Zombies are on the move. And they're coming for me and you. Watch your six folks. And don't go out unarmed.
Up next: it’s racist if you don’t let us steal from you.
It’s going to become a shoplifting desert!
I do believe people like Moochelle are willingly blind and stupid. They may even have good brains...but they refuse to use them.
I know plenty of privileged white folks who are just like that. God gave them a nice brain...but He won't insist that they use it.
No, the minimum wage isn’t driving out WalMart, and if it were, good riddance. If you can’t pay FT, adult employees anything above the Chicago minimum wage, then as a taxpayer, I don’t want to continue paying for your workers’ shortfall between what you pay them and what it costs to live in Chicago.
But let me be clear: Walmart already pays as much as $19/hour to start, even where the minimum wage is the federal minimum. (It can be as low as $14/hr... but even that, which is based on much cheaper places to live ... is close to teh Chicago minimum wage.)
No, I imagine the losses are due to merchandise losses: the whole nation is experiencing a shoplifting craze. One stolen $3,000 computer can cost the same as 200 minimum-wage hours.
Damn that Walmart.
Now where are the shoplifters supposed to shoplift from?
“… The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties, but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community.…”
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“Serving the community “ = continuing to be a source of goods for shoplifters
“Which means the hoodrats are coming to your nice Chicagoland suburb to do their shopping.”
Shouldn’t that read; Which means the hoodrats are coming to your nice Chicagoland suburb to do their shopLIFTING?
Butt, butt, butt.....what about the EV charging stations that were going to be installed?😵
And even more than that.
Retail shrink is up to $95 billion per year. That’s minimum wage for 2.5 million workers.
Good. Those suburbanites are the ones voting to suport the BLM and pushing liberal idiocy.
You’d think at some point that city gov and LEO would would DO SOMETHING to stop, prosecute and lock up shop lifters and repeat offenders.
I assume that Walmart represents a HUGE % of sales in these communities as well a a HUGE employer.
Animals sh”” in their own backyard
Not a problem.
The City of Chicago will just impose a “food desert” tax on the remaining stores and drive them out of business too.
The Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks will probably leave soon, as well.
... Them’s obamanites and sons of BHO
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