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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“Throwing money at this, crying racism, altering the normal rule of law, etc is not the answer”
agreed
I’m thinking all that is what caused the problem to begin with.
Or use the same phone she uses for rideshare apps to use one of the many shopping and delivery services.
Ask fat, ugly, stoopid stacey abrams where she buys groceries. no shortage at those stores (well, unless she just bought out the place).
EXACTLY!!! Let the rich minority elite fix these neighborhoods and show us how to do it!!!!
You’ll notice the lady making the comment had to actually walk by TWO signs to discover the doors were locked...one saying “the power was out”...the other saying “temporarily closed”.
She must’ve thought they were kidding.
then they complain they have no stores. What a bunch of morons. When they have stores they steal, loot, and burn them. These mental midgets just can’t figure out why all the stores disappear.
They have changed the register monitors in a certain mega chain in TX where you cannot see unless you are right up near the cashier what the payee is using to pay for groceries. I stand and look up to see if groceries are Lone Star Card or their own credit card.
I think they also changed the Lone Star Card to look less like a big star and more like a bank card....hide the pride of bilking taxpayers!!!
Was on MLK something week before last on my way thru to Snellville. Didnt look particularly bad, but I wasnt on foot.
I assure you of one thing:
When the government nationalizes retail food stores shoplifting from the government will carry harsh penalties.
(From Red Dwarf, episode titled Back to Reality)A young child runs into view and across the car park, being chased by a man in a suit.
COP: Halt or I'll fire!
The child runs right between BILLY and JAKE while the COP stops and raises his gun.
COP: Move, voters!
JAKE: (Grabbing BILLY to stop him from moving) Move an inch and I'll crush every bone in your body.The COP has lost the girl, but he does not lower his gun -- it's an automatic weapon that looks all too loaded. He approaches the group angrily.
COP: You helped an enemy of democracy escape. She was stealing an apple of the people.
COP: Kneel, voters. You are under sentence of death.
You need to understand profit margins. Lets assume a 5% profit margin after taxes, on a $10 item. So you make $.50. You have to sell 20 just to cover the cost of that single stolen item. If 2 get stolen, need to sell 40 to cover the theft.
The cost of 'shrinkage' is huge, and all stores should have intensive video surveliance and armed guards. But this is expensive, and why they choose to leave.
“ ” is somewhere in the vicinity of Martin Luther King Blvd.”
No, I think it is out near the airport.”
It’s ‘da hood, for sure. These articles crack me up. Blacks steal whatever isn’t nailed down, then the media wails about how unfair it is to blacks. Been hearing the same story for 60+ years.
There is a Walmart with a grocery store inside located just TWO BLOCKS from this temporarily closed Kroger store. Food desert? No.
We agree. My opening statement was just a way to stating the view of others (not my own).
The individual shoplifter may not understand that they are stealing not just the merchant but from everyone that shops at that store. Nothing is free, at some point someone has to pay for it.
The solution is obviously for the government to reimburse grocery stores and drugstores in high-crime neighborhoods for their losses from shoplifting, to get them to stay in those neighborhoods. I shouldn’t give the Democrats any ideas, but for all we know, it’s already hidden in the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill that Biden just signed.
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Touche’
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I would not bet against you.
NOT sorry.
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