Posted on 08/21/2025 7:29:09 PM PDT by Morgana
If progressivism prevails, we may have to go without benefits of civilization that have been taken for granted for centuries. Stores are an example.
From the moonbattery-addled Seattle area:
Kroger announced its plans to permanently close two more grocery stores, one in Kent and one in Everett…
The stores belong to Kroger’s Fred Meyer subsidiary.
Kroger noted that the closures could affect approximately 360 workers from both stores.
A Fred Meyer spokesperson explains why the closures were necessary:
“Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable.”
Rampant theft and malicious hyperregulation are among the most conspicuous consequences of liberal rule.
No worries. After grocery stores have been forced to close, leftists like Brandon Johnson and Zohran Mamdani can provide us with government grocery stores. On the downside, these will fail — as in Kansas City.
At least Bed Bath & Beyond is making a comeback. Not in California though:
Marcus Lemonis, executive chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond, released a scathing letter about how California has made business conditions miserable.
“We will not open or operate retail stores in California,” Lemonis bluntly wrote. …
[Lemonis] called California one of the most “overregulated, expensive, and risky environments” for American businesses that makes it difficult to employ people and keep doors open.
Until recently, shoplifting was effectively legal in the erstwhile Golden State. Proposition 36 curtailed the prolonged looting spree by making shoplifting a felony, but hyperregulation and excessive taxation continue to suffocate businesses under single-party Democrat rule.
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Nope, never.
My favorite aisle at BB&B was the As Seen On TV aisle... just to feel the total lack of quality of the junk the public was being subjected to.
Only 2 times was I ever persuaded to buy anything off a TV commercial, and they were both musical boxed sets... One was The Best of Boxcar Willie and the other was The Best of Slim Whitman... I learned a bunch of songs of of those two purchases.
Unfortunately not.
It’s always somebody else’s fault.
Like Jake here...
https://youtu.be/4U9Yl5CXvcQ?si=JZNORpTXhEhZcdFI
“They don’t learn do they?”
I’d say they’ve learned a lot. For decades they weren’t able to bring down Western society, no matter how hard they tried - people resisted, the media limited what they could get away with, not enough women were getting brainwashed in college, blacks had refused to get radicalized...but that’s all been fixed now.
They DEFINITELY learned from their mistakes, and they’re operating at full throttle, hoping to finally get the last pieces in place to send this country to the ash heap of history, without us having any way to stop it. They haven’t completely gotten to that point in the US (they need one more election to go their way), but they have in Europe as now the primary job of the police there is jailing their opponents.
Lemonis is a liberal. He probably doesn't see any linkage between his favored philosophy and the reality on the ground in CA. (Oh, I know, it's probably "global warming"! - or whatever they call it these days).
No, they never learn.
It’s Trump’s fault, you know.
/sarc
And you have Indian Love Call handy in case the Martians attack. ;)
I loved Fred Meyer. They sold everything. In the same day I bought a handgun, a new season’s worth of clothes, and enough lumber to make 60 feet of cedar fencing. Now, it’s just the same as a superdeep Walmart without firearms.
They are incapable of it.
Lemonis has made the rounds of conservative media the last couple of days. I hope people were paying attention because his reasoning was so logical that even a caveman could understand. (Not too sure about Newsom’s level of understanding, though.)
“Lemonis is a liberal.”
In the interviews I saw, he sure didn’t sound like a liberal. At least once he said that things needed to be more red leaning for businesses to survive.
He sounded like a true believer in capitalism. Goal is to make big profits for shareholders.
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