Posted on 03/10/2020 11:01:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
PITTSBURGH — A Family Dollar store in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood says so many people are stealing from them, it may put them out of business.
Neighbors said they rely on the store for their essentials, which is within walking distance of many homes and schools.
The manager of the store said a regional team is looking into inventory and what could be done, if anything, to help the business stay afloat.
A neighboring business said extra cameras and a policy of no backpacks and no more than two kids in the store at a time have helped cracked down on the petty theft.
Your story amazes me. Only because I’ve been to Savannah and more polite people you could not find. Hard to imagine anyone being rude there.
Emphasize the African in African American. Some things cannot be changed.
I guess it was a little more than a year after Hoover LEFT office. An interesting little factoid is that Hoover actually carried Pennsylvania, mainly due to the Pittsburgh area, in his unsuccessful re-election bid in 1932, along with five other states, all in the northeast.
what neighborhood? McKeesport area??
The elementary schools in Chicago handed out free breakfast and lunch for many years. A few years ago some genius in the school administration decided to give away back packs with free food so the Amish kids would have dinner.
Fast forward to today - the schools now have to fill the back packs on Fridays so the “kids” have free food for the weekend. Of course the Amish complain about the free food selections. There will NEVER be enough free stuff.
The last Republican Mayor here apparently left office with the cloud of some type of scandal hanging over him. I’m not familiar with the details. The area became a real hotbed of labor union activism about that time and they went all-in with the Dems. There was a Catholic Priest named Father Cox who was leading the charge. Held big rallies and did radio shows. That tying of unions and Democrats and the Church together at the wrists and ankles is why Dem voting patterns here are so ingrained to this day.
It sounds just like electronics recycling and resale.
What an excellent lesson in basic economics! Well done.
I’ve had such yutes accost me in various ways in Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Ithaca, NY; Columbia, MO; and Palo Alto, CA.
I tell you, my antennae are ALWAYS up when out in public. Some places it is totally unexpected such as Palo Alto.
Fortunately, never been mugged or shot.
“There will NEVER be enough free stuff.”
And that’s the basic thing about Sandersism, but the idiot kids today just don’t get it.
Lesson #2 is that you don’t value anything you get for free. You are indignant and insulted if the free stuff stops flowing; then you hate your benefactor for shutting off the stream.
Updated model: set of touchscreen kiosks, you select the items you want, it gets assembled into an order (possibly assisted by a picker robot), you pay, you get your merchandise. The Amazon model, in a storefront.
Or the old Service Merchandise model. Order from a computer screen and your item comes to a pickup station.
we stopped in McKeesport once....it seemed fine until the evening!
I do vaguely remember studying about Father Cox back in history class. He was described as the industrial belt version of the infamous Huey Long. Didn’t realize he was from the ‘burgh.
that’s not just the Amish!
FOF on benefits who gets free food every Tuesday complains that it is the same sort of food, and not enough meat.
She’s an entitled white girl. Has not worked in 8 years, gets cash put on a card every month. not EBT, she spends it at the ABC store. Funny thing is she gets disability bennies for her alcohol abuse related problems. Plus the free food weekly and free medical.
There were two more-or-less Communist priests in that era who had huge followings on radio. Father Cox was in Pittsburgh. Father Coughlin out of Detroit was an even bigger deal nationally.
McKees Rocks is the hometown of John Kasich.
It’s most prominent feature is a giant honking nudie bar right in the center of town.
[I would be very surprised if that $1 above cost netted anywhere near $0.10 after all cost of doing business was calculated in.]
The only Wal-Mart in our black hood closed now for 3 years. Did they even do their homework?
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