Ira Kress sounds like a white supremacist racist.
/s
I think grocery stores have a very small profit margin anyway. Closing hurts the neighborhoods as well but I can’t expect them to lose money.
Do it. Let em eat snap plastic.
As with everything else, these wimpy woke CEOS have the choice: dump on my customers who are good normal citizens and patriots or, oppose the shoplifters, LGBTQ+ and BLM and woke types.
We notice.
We are angry.
We don’t forgive.
“..the rise in shoplifting and violence, which has put a strain on the company’s ability to do business..”
How does every one of these stores that allow no-penalty shoplifting not be already closed? I know bigger chains can absorb costs so they can virtue signal their wokeness,but what’s the point? It would be more efficient to just deliver the products to the thief’s homes and save on wear and tear.
It looked so clever. Jewelry stores, electronics and phone displays. Food stores. Just steal and walk out to a row of waiting SUVs. No employees will try to stop you. No police will do anything. If you’re nice to the criminals they won’t kill you or sue you for millions of dollars.
Then the higher prices for good people to pay at the stores and the diminishing customer base can’t keep the places afloat. Good bye.
I hope the CEOS suffer.
The article describes the Giant in Alexandria to a ‘T.’
They closed a small store here in a relatively low crime area. Hopefully they won’t close the larger one.
That’s what EBT cards are for. Take from the taxpayers and not the store.
Never forget, the bums you stood in line to vote for caused this mess.
So, which Dumb-O-Crats did Kress support in the last election?
I heard this might happen in a Youtube video from the Epic Economist.
In our low crime county where shoplifters may get probation with the first strike if they have no record of previous crimes, but thereafter do a few years in prison, we have a Dollar Tree which will be opening soon. I usually see those stores in urban areas rather than on a rural highway. Some corporations may be seeing the benefit of just ditching the idea of locating in high volume areas in exchange for low crime, steady customer, law-abiding, locations. Dollar Tree might be thinking of giving Dollar General some competition.
Please do it. We need more food deserts in this country to punish democrat voters.
I went to the Kroger store this morning that I had been shopping at for over 30 years.
It’s location is on the edge of town.
Not a high crime area nor an area that gets much of the minority community shopping there.
I used the self-check out as I have done over the last several years as they just don’t have that many check lanes open particularly in the early part of the day.
I think after I hit payment method, a screen came up saying ten items and that an attendant will be with you.
An attendant came over and counted the items that I had bagged, hit a couple of screens, and told me I could continue.
I asked what did the screen mean, and she had that I had ten items which wasn’t said in curt way but simply as a matter of fact.
I didn’t feel like asking any more questions and left.
But evidently that is one of the measures grocery stores are taking that was mentioned in the article.
As a law abiding citizen, I’m cool with it.
They gotta do what they gotta do to stay profitable and remain in business.
I guess just shooting them is too extreme.
Btw, the starving person...or even the drug addict is one thing, but from what I read in the no-punishment big cities, these are organized bands of thieves that then sell to warehouses or sell online.
These are the ones I’d just shoot.
Do it. Shutter these stores. Starve the scumbags.
Funny, no mention of closings of any stores in the area I live in, but then again I don’t live in a democrat ran cesspool city.
The Costco model seems to work well. Every Costco I’ve seen does a good business.
For single people like me, they might offer two-year memberships.