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Chicago Riots Wipe Out Most Grocery Sources For Minority Residents
HotAir ^ | June 5, 2020 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 06/05/2020 4:04:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

...Some of the stories told by local residents offer a personal perspective and make you realize precisely what these neighborhoods have lost. Plenty of people there don’t own their own cars and if you’ve ever tried to take a bus to go grocery shopping, you know what a nightmare that is. These are low-income neighborhoods and not everyone can afford to summon a taxi or an Uber (assuming you can even get one to come to make a pickup). Some people are already waking dozens of city blocks to purchase only as many groceries as they can carry by hand.

This is what came of the “protesting” that was, at least in these neighborhoods, little more than a thinly disguised excuse to loot every business, smash every window and engage in anarchy while literally setting the world on fire. And what did it get them? As one resident interviewed for this report sadly noted, they’ve managed to further drive down their property values and “embarrass themselves.”...

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To: CheshireTheCat

Keep on peeing into the wind, leftists.


61 posted on 06/05/2020 6:37:48 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Texas resident

I think she’s complaining about dessert.


62 posted on 06/05/2020 6:47:23 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: mass55th
Good luck with that!!

you've met him too??

63 posted on 06/05/2020 6:51:19 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dsrtsage

I think their plan is backfiring. Trump’s approval rating among blacks surged to 40% in today’s (June 5) Rasmussen Daily opinion poll. I realize this is not a permanent number, but an immediate reaction blacks are having to this rioting nonsense brought on by the DNC, George Soros and the globalists who are pulling his strings.


64 posted on 06/05/2020 7:02:42 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: BobL

[So if Target wants to jack their prices another 10%, they will lose a huge amount business. In fact, it’s very possible that stores are gone for good.]


I don’t think competition from Amazon is a huge problem in these areas. Many residents don’t have credit cards, for the usual dysfunctional reasons. And poor impulse control means they have to have it right now. The principal problem is the big chains can’t charge higher prices. Discrimination suits are a problem. A single- or several-store grocery store franchisee can charge whatever the market will bear. Target and Walmart cannot, because they have deep pockets and can become the target of nationwide SJW harassment.


65 posted on 06/05/2020 7:08:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: usconservative
"you've met him too??"

LOL!! Let's just say that Laz has made himself known to others on this site :-)

66 posted on 06/05/2020 7:14:10 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Oh my gosh. They might starve.


67 posted on 06/05/2020 7:51:07 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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To: CheshireTheCat

They can just call Donatos. No big deal.


68 posted on 06/05/2020 7:53:27 PM PDT by anton
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To: MrChips

Who cares?


69 posted on 06/05/2020 7:58:56 PM PDT by sport
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To: Zhang Fei

“I don’t think competition from Amazon is a huge problem in these areas. Many residents don’t have credit cards, for the usual dysfunctional reasons.”

Agree, but the 10% ‘tax’ would have to be at all stores, for the same reason you note (they cannot charge based on their local cost to operate), and the extra cost of inner city operations will likely require a lot more than 10%. We’re now at the point where gangs simply walk in, take what they want, and leave...knowing that no one will challenge them.


70 posted on 06/05/2020 8:10:16 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Bonemaker

Mayor Pete, what a joke. In many places Gary looks like Detroit. 20 and 30 block areas with not one single standing structure.


71 posted on 06/05/2020 8:27:13 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: EC Washington

“There are no real stores in Gary”

https://www.google.com/search?q=Gary,+Indiana+grocery

there’s a couple of ALDI’s and a couple of Save-A-Lots in addition to to some local grocery stores ..


72 posted on 06/05/2020 9:53:10 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I call BS. How could mostly peaceful protests have wrecked so much destruction? Somebody is lying....


73 posted on 06/05/2020 9:59:09 PM PDT by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Gnome1949

Let the mayors/governors/cops suffer for allowing it to happen...many of those being harmed were not “protesters” and many who did the damage aren’t living in it.


74 posted on 06/06/2020 3:16:37 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: kublia khan
West side of Chicago still somewhat desolate from 1968 King riots.


75 posted on 06/06/2020 3:44:42 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: catnipman

On the outskirts? Like Miller or Glen Park? I had to take my Dad to the Lake County Office in Downtown - 6th and Broadway - there was nothing. It looked like a war zone. Black Oak doesn’t count.


76 posted on 06/06/2020 6:31:56 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: jonascord

The poor man has to walk to get meat for his stomach.

The rich man has to walk to get stomach for his meat.


77 posted on 06/07/2020 3:38:11 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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