Posted on 11/17/2021 4:26:42 AM PST by Cecily
he unmarked security vehicles parked outside the Kroger signaled trouble. So, too, did the police tape blocking the store’s entrance at Metropolitan Parkway SW and Cleveland Avenue SW several days ago. A small sign taped to an overturned shopping cart flapped in the wind telling shoppers the power was out. Thieves had stolen critical electric wiring.
A much larger sign said “Temporarily Closed” and identified two other store locations for shoppers in the area, neither of which was easily accessible without some form of transportation.
After one Hapeville resident recently found Kroger’s doors locked, she lamented on social media that there was no grocery store in the community for people like her who do not own a car. Now she would have to rely on rideshare apps for shopping trips.
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I bet they have a higher rate of single parent families than 95+% of the neighborhoods in America, too.
How many months before the govt orders grocery chains to open in high-theft, low income areas? They order us to wear masks, they tell us what we can teach our children, they order us to get shots.
Another bright solution the govt will invent is “give them more food stamps”. You can have a million dollars of food stamps, but if there are no accessible stores, you’re screwed. Kind of like Obamacare, you’ll have insurance, but there are no doctors. GOVERNMENT SCREWS UP EVERYTHING !
What it will take is for you privileged weypepo to go out of your way and shop at these stores.
Get out of your comfy suburban neighborhoods and come to the high crime districts and MAKE these grocery stores sustainable.
It has always worked before, right?
“... location decisions made by food retailers are evidence of intentional disinvestment in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.”
Of course they are. This is not directly a poverty or PoC issue. It is a financial issue.
Police defunding => higher crime + looting => loss of businesses
Why would these businesses throw money away? People need, and will buy, food, regardless of their race or income level. However, if their stores are being looted and burned (and insurance and security costs go through the roof) there is no profit to be made.
Food deserts - coming to a BLM neighborhood near you.
Just like Detroit the bulldozers will be moving in and starting demolition.Democrats never fix problems they just destroy and spend money.it is the plan.
We are living in atlas shrugged.
I can imaging the discussions going on in the grocery chain main offices:
Young GC planner: “Look [on the map], here’s a large populated area where we could place a store. No competitor within miles.”
Old GC2 planner: “Yeah, we had a store there years ago. Shoppers would load up their carts and sprint out the door without paying. At night people would break in and empty the shelves. Police took hours to respond to the alarm. Occasionally someone would be caught, but they would be released without charges. We’re not going through that again.”
That's just how evil Whitey is!
< /SARC> (superfluous tag)
Groceries stores run on very thin margins. A penny here and a penny there is the difference between making a profit or a loss.
Shoplifting, security, repairs, higher insurance makes this unsustainable.
(Elon Musk == John Galt) True
Stores don’t stay in “underserved areas” because they are robbed blind and can’t make a profit. Everyone knows this, but no one will say it. Least of all some idiot from Columbia J school who never thought to ask why stores close.
LOL, you are right about that.
Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis, Baltimore,Charlotte. Atlanta, SF who will be next?
It is not near the airport. It is close to downtown and MLK.
There are two major things that need to change before they can be free of their bondage:
It is the party of racism, pure and simple. Until they consistently vote for non-Democrats in numbers greater than 5-20% that won't happen. The Left has regarded that 80-95% block of votes with contempt, and there is a lot of money and a good number of federal jobs and power associated with racism.
"Black Culture" as practiced in the United States is virulently toxic, corrosive, and self-destructive. Thomas Sowell describes it well in his book "White Liberals and Black Rednecks". It encompasses everything from rejection of education and embrace of misogyny to this perverse culture of "snitches get stitches", promotion of violence for the most innocent of personal affronts, rejection of the work ethic, and abdication of the family unit.
Until they tackle these two things and reject both of them as a start, people like Nedra Rhone (the author) and the puzzled and affronted people who had quotes like these in the article will live under the imposed lash of Leftism:
It is astonishing (especially the very last comment about how crazy it is) the degree of detachment and abdication of any personal responsibility in this.
I got the same impression from hearing the talking heads on television this morning lamenting the high cost of gasoline and its impact on the increase in prices of goods and services and travel costs.
They speak about it, not as a result of having open supported as an industry and personally voted for a political party that has openly and unequivocally stated that it wants to drive energy costs up and has taken specific actions to do so, but as if unbidden aliens from space had descended on earth and done things to cause the cost of energy to decrease.
Many of these people, and specifically the people with their verminous rat-claws on the levers of power in these areas, have implemented policies to publicly demonize, degrade, and even defund law enforcement, and encourage illegal behavior.
For them to be offended by this, and like the last poster, blame it on racism against them, is an indication of just how serious the problem it. They own the problem personally, and share that equally with the people who buy and sell their votes on an auction block in the political town center just as surely as if it were a slave auction.
"...unbidden aliens from space had descended on earth and done things to cause the cost of energy to decrease INCREASE..."
So long as they’re not closing The Varsity ....
Would this, by any chance, be in a predominantly blak section of Atlanta?
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