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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Capitalism and cause and effect are mysteries, to be sure. High end groceries aren't opening in poor, predominately white neighborhoods either.
Obesity rates in the inner city would say that a food dessert is a good thing....
Just judging from the heading (haven’t read the piece) I’d guess that this “food desert” is somewhere in the vicinity of Martin Luther King Blvd.
There are tens of millions of potential customers in ‘LaHood’ (a little RINO terminology). The ones that choose to not work are loaded with food stamps and can buy virtually anything in a supermarket. Because of this situation, the big chains would LOVE to serve those markets.
So, it’s up to Atlanta. If you don’t want to put criminals in jail, you won’t have the nice supermarkets. If you are willing to put criminals in jail, you will have the nice supermarkets.
It is up to the elected officials there, which means ultimately the voters - and, so far, they have chosen to go without the supermarkets.
No, I think it is out near the airport.
My message to that community: Go Fix Yourself.
These "urbanites" steal from stores daily without fear of prosecution because of Soros funded District Attorneys, then they whine when the store closes temporarily because some "urbanite" stole the power wiring to sell for cash, or the store closes permanently because they're operating at a loss due to all the theft.
Cry me a f***ing river. Even a dog is smart enough to know not to crap where it eats. Enjoy your "food desert" you urbanites. You earned it.
Somebody knows who did that. That somebody needs to pick up the phone and turn their precious kid into the police.
Predictably, the usual suspects in San Francisco started whining when Walgreen’s started closing their money losing/shoplifting targeted stores.
Sounds like an opportunity for Oprah and Beyoncé to open grocery stores in underserved minority communities….but I doubt that’ll happen.
Pretty obvious why some communities are redlined and it has nothing to do with their race but rather their culture.
Yes. They keep looking to others to fix their problems.
I didn’t find MLK Blvd but a real estate website (Neighborhood Scout, which tries to paint a rosy picture) says this,
“One of the unique characteristics of the Metropolitan Pky SW / Cleveland Ave SW neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America. The Metropolitan Pky SW / Cleveland Ave SW neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (74.7%) than found in 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.” https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ga/atlanta/metropolitan-cleveland
“Go Fix Yourself.”
Close!😎
Conditions in ghetto areas make it more expensive to operate. Higher insurance, more shoplifting and internal theft, you have to pay good people more money to go there, etc.
But the chains CANNOT charge more to cover the increased costs, or they will have a local news reporter-slut doing a segment on why the same can of corn costs $x in white-area store and $2x in black area store (answer: "RACISM!")
What is the cost of an individual shoplifting a few items? Perhaps not much in the grand scheme of things but the truth is it is not just individuals and it is not just a few things.
Shoplifting (with the aid of liberal politicians) have made shoplifting a cottage industry. In California where they no longer prosecute shoplifters, you will find “homeless” camps around most big box stores. The “homeless” use these stores as their pantries.
In other places shoplifting is an organized sport. I would not be surprised if some don’t go in with shopping list.
So for those living in high crime areas the cost is higher prices if the stores remain open, or no stores within their area (so called food deserts).
Can the problem be solved? Yes, if we had the will. Unfortunately powerful groups actually like the way things are right now and they would fight any effort to fix the problem. So the answer is, we currently don’t have the will.
Literally correct.
But figuratively it ”is somewhere in the vicinity of Martin Luther King Blvd.”
“....and it has nothing to do with their race but rather their culture.”
Which coincidentally seem to go hand in hand.
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