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Big Lots store in Ferguson shuts down; other retailers ‘feeling the pinch’
Twitchy ^ | December 17, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 12/18/2014 11:28:13 AM PST by C19fan

Brittany Noble-Jones, a reporter at KMOV in St. Louis, tweets that the Big Lots retail store in Ferguson, Missouri, is shutting down. While the corporate office won’t comment on whether the closure is related to the post-Ferguson riots and protests, other small businesses have told Noble-Jones that they are “feeling the pinch.”

Way to go, social justice mob.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; missouri
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To: Dr. Thorne

I see London, I see France
I see angry blacks underpants!


41 posted on 12/18/2014 12:24:17 PM PST by jimmyo57
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To: Red Badger; jsanders2001; MrB

Midnight Basketball League, for empty-store gang bangers ?


42 posted on 12/18/2014 12:25:58 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: ZOOKER
I was wondering just yesterday, how far Ferguson residents have to travel now to get their Swisher Sweets...

I don't know, but I would guess that the shortest distance involves walking down the middle of the street.

43 posted on 12/18/2014 12:27:00 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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To: jimmyo57

Why even wear the pants?


44 posted on 12/18/2014 12:28:01 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: C19fan

This is how “food deserts” happen. Then leftards whine about that ,too.


45 posted on 12/18/2014 12:28:08 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: MrB

Great question. I’d guess so the dragging cuffs would make enough noise to get someone to look at them as they saunter by.


46 posted on 12/18/2014 12:38:46 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: C19fan

All business should up and leave, and the businesses in Black communities across this nation should pay attention. Before it’s too late, if you catch my drift...


47 posted on 12/18/2014 12:40:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: DanielRedfoot

AL Sharpton will doubtless make a ballyhooed appearance...in Ferguson before long to PROTEST WHITE FLIGHT PRIVLEGE and DEMAND....DEMAND I say that these struggling bidnesses not only REMAIN in Ferguson but expand thier presence.”.In The Community!”


48 posted on 12/18/2014 12:42:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Uversabound

> *causing the closure of a large number of small businesses*
Its a recession. Anywhere you go you will find many empty stores. Look in your own town.

I’ve lived through many recessions. This is no recession. It’s just being called that so as not to offend the King. Things are very bad economically, worse than any time during my lifetime. The MSM and his suppporters won’t allow the truth to be told...


49 posted on 12/18/2014 12:48:11 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Dr. Thorne

That pic really says it all. Rofl


50 posted on 12/18/2014 12:52:32 PM PST by sheana
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To: kearnyirish2

You missed posted gang hangouts, strip clubs and Baptist churches.


51 posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:22 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: kearnyirish2

“Welcome to the ghetto economy: hair salons, tattoo parlors, pawn shops, liquor stores.”
And 7-11’s.


52 posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:57 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: C19fan

Only a fool would open a store in a heavily crime-prone area.


53 posted on 12/18/2014 12:54:31 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: jsanders2001

Right for the first time in history the American economy is contracting. Call it what you want. I noticed any town I go to there are empty stores.


54 posted on 12/18/2014 12:55:08 PM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: C19fan

wow...creating another Detroit....great job!!


55 posted on 12/18/2014 12:55:50 PM PST by terycarl ( common sense prevails over all)
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To: jsanders2001
I’ve lived through many recessions. This is no recession. It’s just being called that so as not to offend the King. Things are very bad economically, worse than any time during my lifetime. The MSM and his supporters won’t allow the truth to be told...

The Kondratieff Winter started with the Grand Supercycle Top the economy hit in March of 2000. They staved off the Greater Depression until October, 2008 - and since then they've been using massive social welfare borrowing and spending to mask its true effects. It can't last indefinitely, but I wouldn't doubt they've got ways to extend their game-playing for quite a few more years.

But because they have chosen to play it this way, the eventual reset and subsequent Kondratieff Spring is not going to begin at its expected date of 2017 or so, but will be postponed until much later.

56 posted on 12/18/2014 1:00:23 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: ZOOKER

Good one.


57 posted on 12/18/2014 1:04:25 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: DanielRedfoot
THIS JUST IN....a new day ....a new scheme...a new ..meme


58 posted on 12/18/2014 1:06:15 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: jsanders2001

Yep. The number of apartments that have become section 8 in many of the nicer suburbs of cities is growing under Obama. He is making certain his kind move from the inner city to an apartment or subsidized house close to YOU.


59 posted on 12/18/2014 1:08:19 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: freeangel
There is no reason to provide anything in a town of thugs, criminals and the people who let them burn the town to the ground.

I don't blame them for closing, but you seem to imply that everybody was in on the riots. Probably 1% or so were. The worst rioters came from Illinois.

60 posted on 12/18/2014 1:11:08 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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