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More Stores Close Due to Moonbattery
Moonbattery ^ | August 21, 2025 | Dave Blount

Posted on 08/21/2025 7:29:09 PM PDT by Morgana

If progressivism prevails, we may have to go without benefits of civilization that have been taken for granted for centuries. Stores are an example.

From the moonbattery-addled Seattle area:

Kroger announced its plans to permanently close two more grocery stores, one in Kent and one in Everett…

The stores belong to Kroger’s Fred Meyer subsidiary.

Kroger noted that the closures could affect approximately 360 workers from both stores.

A Fred Meyer spokesperson explains why the closures were necessary:

“Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable.”

Rampant theft and malicious hyperregulation are among the most conspicuous consequences of liberal rule.

No worries. After grocery stores have been forced to close, leftists like Brandon Johnson and Zohran Mamdani can provide us with government grocery stores. On the downside, these will fail — as in Kansas City.

At least Bed Bath & Beyond is making a comeback. Not in California though:

Marcus Lemonis, executive chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond, released a scathing letter about how California has made business conditions miserable.

“We will not open or operate retail stores in California,” Lemonis bluntly wrote. …

[Lemonis] called California one of the most “overregulated, expensive, and risky environments” for American businesses that makes it difficult to employ people and keep doors open.

Until recently, shoplifting was effectively legal in the erstwhile Golden State. Proposition 36 curtailed the prolonged looting spree by making shoplifting a felony, but hyperregulation and excessive taxation continue to suffocate businesses under single-party Democrat rule.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 3rdworld; anarchotyranny; crime; dystopia; lawandorder; retail; stores; theft
They don't learn do they?
1 posted on 08/21/2025 7:29:09 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Nope, never.


2 posted on 08/21/2025 7:40:20 PM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: Morgana

My favorite aisle at BB&B was the As Seen On TV aisle... just to feel the total lack of quality of the junk the public was being subjected to.

Only 2 times was I ever persuaded to buy anything off a TV commercial, and they were both musical boxed sets... One was The Best of Boxcar Willie and the other was The Best of Slim Whitman... I learned a bunch of songs of of those two purchases.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 7:41:43 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Morgana

Unfortunately not.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 7:49:43 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

It’s always somebody else’s fault.

Like Jake here...

https://youtu.be/4U9Yl5CXvcQ?si=JZNORpTXhEhZcdFI


5 posted on 08/21/2025 7:55:24 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Morgana

“They don’t learn do they?”

I’d say they’ve learned a lot. For decades they weren’t able to bring down Western society, no matter how hard they tried - people resisted, the media limited what they could get away with, not enough women were getting brainwashed in college, blacks had refused to get radicalized...but that’s all been fixed now.

They DEFINITELY learned from their mistakes, and they’re operating at full throttle, hoping to finally get the last pieces in place to send this country to the ash heap of history, without us having any way to stop it. They haven’t completely gotten to that point in the US (they need one more election to go their way), but they have in Europe as now the primary job of the police there is jailing their opponents.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 9:00:11 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Morgana
"Marcus Lemonis, executive chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond, released a scathing letter about how California has made business conditions miserable. “We will not open or operate retail stores in California,” Lemonis bluntly wrote. …"

Lemonis is a liberal. He probably doesn't see any linkage between his favored philosophy and the reality on the ground in CA. (Oh, I know, it's probably "global warming"! - or whatever they call it these days).

7 posted on 08/21/2025 9:07:20 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: Morgana

No, they never learn.

It’s Trump’s fault, you know.

/sarc


8 posted on 08/21/2025 9:17:29 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Clutch Martin

And you have Indian Love Call handy in case the Martians attack. ;)


9 posted on 08/21/2025 9:31:48 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Morgana

I loved Fred Meyer. They sold everything. In the same day I bought a handgun, a new season’s worth of clothes, and enough lumber to make 60 feet of cedar fencing. Now, it’s just the same as a superdeep Walmart without firearms.


10 posted on 08/21/2025 9:35:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Morgana

They are incapable of it.


11 posted on 08/21/2025 9:36:41 PM PDT by Noumenon (Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
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To: Clutch Martin
BB&B had an aisle with massage devices. A great place to hang out while my wife shopped.
12 posted on 08/21/2025 10:07:50 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Morgana

Lemonis has made the rounds of conservative media the last couple of days. I hope people were paying attention because his reasoning was so logical that even a caveman could understand. (Not too sure about Newsom’s level of understanding, though.)


13 posted on 08/22/2025 12:05:14 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: The Duke

“Lemonis is a liberal.”

In the interviews I saw, he sure didn’t sound like a liberal. At least once he said that things needed to be more red leaning for businesses to survive.

He sounded like a true believer in capitalism. Goal is to make big profits for shareholders.


14 posted on 08/22/2025 12:09:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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