Posted on 11/17/2021 7:03:21 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
The 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.
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Hey, residents, quit stealing stuff and maybe, just maybe, you will see businesses come back.
Our grocery store closed last year. We do have a Dollar General with some fresh produce but. We need to travel 13mi east and 14 mi west to get to a Grocery store.
In Dayton, a neighborhood raised funds by selling memberships and with government grants to open a co-op. One of the managers blamed their food desert on apartheid.. That’s their fantasy
YOYO.
Does Atlanta have a Soros elected prosecutor? Are they letting shoplifters run amok?
So if they are not stealing stuff inside they are stealing stuff outside. What business wouldn't want to operate there?
Where we live you can shop Kroger online and have the food delivered. One advantage of them catering to customers that way is shoplifting is nill. In fact, it would be interesting to see them reduce the price because of the reduced shoplifting risk. It wouldn’t be much though.
A relative of mine owned a store.
Although a certain population was only 10% of her customer base, they were 90% of her shoplifting problem.
She had to stop taking checks because they always bounced. Always. And she couldn’t spend all the time in court prosecuting them. And even when she won she can never collect.
We moved here 10 years ago. Our closest grocery store has always been 12 miles away. It’s not an issue. The problem with urban areas is your served by a lot of mom and pop stores. All of them have to charge a lot more money. That’s just the way it is. If you want to live in a place we’re large grocery stores service the community, it means our community is going to be spread out over more than a block or two. That means you need a car.
The way I seen it since the sixties is this: you can live in an urban neighborhood where your groceries are purchased at small, expensive stores. Or you can live in a sub Urban or rule area where your groceries are purchased at large and less expensive stores. I don’t see anything different here except that in some areas nobody can afford to do business because the neighborhood is populated by thieves.
Its Joe’s fault
So I guess it would be worth it for the good residents of the area to arm themselves and take out what the police can or will not.
Theft of infrastructure is a third world problem. Yes, many neighborhoods in the United States have reached that point. And they are all Urban centers.
Democratic ruled urban America is unlivable. No rational, decent person would voluntarily live, work ,start a business, raise a family or send their kids to schools in such places. Thanks to the silicon chip its becoming less and less necessary to go into such places.
There are probably some ways for an entrpeneur to jump into this environment and make a dime. But the days of the walk-in walk-out retail box are over in particular collectivist locales.
A family I know operated a grocery store in “the hood” for 3 generations - it was opened well before it became “the hood.”
They were there for such a long time, the locals knew and respected them as the only grocery around for 5+ miles. They were able to control pilferage etc... but as the neighborhood declined, ability to stay in business declined
They sold it 2 years ago to an Arab family. The fresh vegetable section disappeared, a large liquor section went it, and the cash registers all went behind plexiglass.
I pity the elderly who have few options for buying food.
An Atlanta neighborhood creates self a food desert overnight
There’s a Walmart Supercenter about 1,000 feet away according to Mapquest that will do in a pinch.
But.. but...that takes WALKING... and making us walk is "racist!"
Open a store in teenland, where the customers order through a bullet proof glass, pay, then the employee goes into the warehouse and gathers the order, and slides it into a recovery area with locked doors on each side. This way drivers are not endangered, employees are not subject to sudden female brawling, shoplifting is impossible, but groceries are available in teenurbia
There’s a Piggly Wiggly under a mile away in the other direction.
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