Alderman: Closing CVS In East Garfield Park ‘Amounts To Theft’ (Chicago)

CBS Chicago ^ | 2/26/2017 | Nancy Harty

[Trillian]

What are they going to do, force the business to stay open with threats of jail time? I’ll bet they are robbed constantly and have a big problem with shoplifting. If I owned a business, there’s no way I’d open a store in that city.

[Old Yeller]

Or a man with a hyphenated last name for that matter.

Like Cuck-Old

[rlmorel]

Unbelievable.

I am sorry. I know there are seniors in that area that need their meds, but if you want a CVS to operate profitably in that area, they need a secure workplace.

These scummy a-holes have worked hand-in-hand with community organizer types so hard to demonize law enforcement and prosecute them for doing their damned hard jobs, and now they raise a stink because the costs of security and other overhead costs have forced CVS to close.

They gave money to CVS to open the store, and are pissed that the “mom and pop” pharmacy (seems like one pharmacy, if it was even that) had to close. I’ll bet those people weren’t going to be in business much longer with or without CVS moving in.

[Buckeye McFrog]

All you drug stores belong us.

[jch10]

Nor the losses from shoplifting.

[Oatka]

It was a contract with the city. There must be escape clauses and time limits within the agreement. That is, unless the city’s attorneys are incompetent boobs.

That is my thinking in all of these tax breaks - what you said, or, to my liking, a small break for each year and then a balloon break the last year. If it is all up front, then, as mentioned elsewhere, they take the money and then run the second year.

You never know what was slipped under the lawyers' table though.

[StAntKnee]

Oh, yeah. Loss control is out of control. Count on it.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Businesses put their stores where they make profit, not where they have to lose money to provide a service to a less than grateful clientele. And gubmint can’t dictate for a business to remain open to provide a service in a location that runs at a loss.

Just how much COOLAID do these people drink?!?

[usconservative]

If AFTER $1 million in tax breaks, the company is losing money at the store, they'd be losing even more money BEFORE the tax breaks

Wow, the hood rats are stealing that store blind to the tune of over a million?! DAAAAYYYYUUUUMMMMM!!!!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

One less place to get pain pills. Hurts the community.