There are now some areas of the country businesses may be thinking twice about having a presence there.
Trouble is, when the dust settles and these stores do NOT reopen, then cries of RACISM will be heard about corporations red lining these looter districts...oops I mean urban districts.
In the meantime, the suburb stores will see an influx of new business. And graffiti, vandalism, theft, car break ins, shoplifting....
Walmart has more stores and most companies have employees. They had a store in Canada that threatened to unionize so their solution was simple. They close the store permanently. They’ll close this one. This is why we have food deserts and now, apparently, Walmart deserts.
I wouldn’t count on that. For the life of me, I can not understand why anyone would put a department store or any other business for that matter smack in the urban center of a city run by democrats. Yet they still do. Maybe it’s the insurance, maybe it’s the political pressure, maybe it’s because the corporations are run by the peanut-brained children of a formerly great founder (Walton family?) and they just can’t outrun their own stupidity.
After the July, 1967 black riots in Detroit, until just recently, no supermarkets or major big box places were built within the city itself. All in the outer suburbs. A few timid tries were met with rampant shoplifting and being shutdown when any black cause was current again later. Not worth reduilding. The "growth" in Detroit was from showcase taxpayer and big corporation white guilt money: football and baseball stadiums, glitzy hotels and office space for use on website photos and so on. Don't venture 1.5 miles outward----burned out abandoned buildings galore.
So now CA,NYC,Portland,Seattle and similar places could have only the prissy BLM kissups (Nike,Starbucks,Google,etc.) putting investment in them. Except they usually just keep appeasing the Left anyway. Reputable corporations should head for "flyover country"----now. The record number of their customers leaaving the urban hellholes should teach them something.
however white corporate America doesn't mind making sacrificial lambs to work inner city stores just to look woke...why else do some outlets prohibit their employees from carrying guns....
But... that creates "merchandising deserts," which is racist. /S
cannot feel sorry for walmart
they were the first corporation to give zillions of dollars to burn, loot, murder