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.
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.
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.
Just someone who couldn’t control their “urges”.
I fled the big city 12 years ago. It’s been wonderful since. All my friends still in the big city do nothing by gripe about it.
Wake. Up.
It will only get worse, it’s been heading this direction for over 50 years.
I bet it was a “jogger” that did it.
In my neighborhood, I have a Winn-Dixie (I wonder when the left will boycott the name 🤓), 2 Publix, a Fresh Market, Spouts, Trader Joe’s, a Target with a grocery section, 2 Walmarts and a Whole Foods. Of course, it is an upscale area, but near my office, I have a Publix, Publix Greenwise, a Duckweed (natural food store) and I heard Winn-Dixie is building a store... My office is getting gentrified. 🤓
The obamas will leave their oceanside home and come to the rescue.