Chicago Riots Wipe Out Most Grocery Sources For Minority Residents

HotAir ^ | June 5, 2020 | Jazz Shaw

[simpson96]

Keep on peeing into the wind, leftists.

[beethovenfan]

I think she’s complaining about dessert.

[usconservative]

Good luck with that!!

you've met him too??

[FrdmLvr]

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.

[Zhang Fei]

[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.]

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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.

[mass55th]

"you've met him too??"

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

[MrChips]

Oh my gosh. They might starve.

[anton]

They can just call Donatos. No big deal.

[sport]

Who cares?

[BobL]

“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.

[kublia khan]

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

[catnipman]

“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 ..

[kevao]

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

[trebb]

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.

[Bonemaker]

West side of Chicago still somewhat desolate from 1968 King riots.

[EC Washington]

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.

[MarvinStinson]

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

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