Article from CBS News with a map and list of stores being closed is here.
Are McDonald’s and Burger King and Wendy’s and Starbucks still there?
I'm surprised these Marxist areas don't create laws making it illegal for businesses to move despite revenue losses.
I am willing to bet there was also a lot of shoplifting at that location. Shoplifting and $15 per hour is just too much to handle.
Congratulations, the minimum wage has gone up. Too bad no one will hire you at that wage. But you do qualify for food stamps and a brand new Obama phone. Don’t forget to vote early and often for democrats.
Got to love the unions..(arc)
Just saw where CWA endorsed Sanders.
I guess Obama screwing up the members health care wasn’t enough for them they want more abuse.
She comm’ies just won’t learn
Stores are in business to make money, not improve social agendas.
If a store cannot make a profit in certain locations, it is reasonable that they will close.
If a store cannot make a profit in certain locations because of high crimes, shoplifting, etc., leading to business losses, it is reasonable that they will close.
There is NOT one store that I go to in my town of 14k for a social agenda. In fact, if I did go in a store and get blasted with a social agenda, I would turn around and leave. I go into a store to buy things.
A minimum wage of $12.55 an hour in Oakland, Calif. made Wal-Mart close 269 stores globally
Great! Giant meth house soon available.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. - Gomer Pyle
Maybe Wal-Mart is losing profits in stores located in poor neighborhoods isn’t because of an increase in the minimum wage, but because those making the current minimum wage can’t afford to shop at Wal-Mart any longer. Therefore, Wal-Mart’s current business model is failing.
Good, now the Mom-and-Pop stores can stay open.
The wage law was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. There’s far far too much crime and violence and dangerous population in Oakland - and people come into the stores and shoplift almost at will. Any police response is usually very slow - mostly just arriving to write brief report for insurance. And if you’re trying to live there and have to call police for burgulars or rapists breaking into your home — you can pretty much forget it. Very sad. It used to be quite a nice town.
I read through a list of many of the stores that are being closed.
Several were on “Martin Luther King Blvd.” in various cities
The inability of liberals to acknowledge or even comprehend basic economics, simple arithmetic and human nature strikes again.
Supermarket chain stores are as rare as dinosaurs in Detroit.Build it and they will come does not work in an open it and they will steal town.Throw in a hefty minimum wage requirement and watch the losses mount.
KMart, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Taco Bell to follow?
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Oakland is dead town.
Too far gone for the Raiders? - Thats bad!
Fruitvale, that used to be an upper middle neighborhood, is now absolute ghetto!
Hegenberger, where Walmart is, is unsafe to travel through in daylight.
I had a survey crew get attacked there while working on a CalTrans contract.
G’bye Oakland!
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