Posted on 12/23/2008 6:50:48 AM PST by grundle
Say good-bye to another ma-and-pa store.
After almost 80 years, the grocery Michael Dimperio took over for his father in 1968 is ending its run. Dimperio's Market, Hazelwood's most tenacious retailer, will close in mid-January.
The would-be robber who fired a bullet into a filing cabinet in the 1980s didn't discourage the Dimperios, nor did the thief who pushed Mr. Dimperio and broke his glasses several years later. It took shoplifters years to chip away at their hearts' work until finally they decided to close.
The decision leaves the neighborhood with no full service grocery and could have been avoided if shoplifters were punished, Mr. Dimperio said.
"We've been working here for the benefit of thieves," he said of himself, his wife Carol and their son, Michael. "We've had it."
The incident that led to the closing occurred about three weeks ago when the owner's son caught a shoplifter who ditched her ID and gave police a false name. Mr. Dimperio found the ID later and reported her identity to a district judge, but by then it was too late.
"This woman had a police record this long and had just gotten out of jail."
He said the police have told him they can't arrest someone for stealing merchandise valued at less than $150 unless that person already has a record, but police in this particular didn't know this shoplifter used a false name.
Mr. Dimperio said that, when he found the ID of the last shoplifter, he called the Zone 4 police to report it as evidence. "They told me to call 911," the emergency number. "So I can't even talk to the officers" who had reported to the scene. "I called the mayor's hotline, 311. I said, 'We have a problem here.' I heard nothing back from them.
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If the whole economy and financial systems totally collapsed into the sewers who would be able to survive it with reasonable efficiency? The Amish...time for America to learn a few lessons from their habits.
I always put an eyebrow in the air when I see a reporter with a three-part name.
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My daughter works in a pharmacy in SC (Spartanburg area). She gets a number of people who come in who want their painkiller persrciption refilled before it is due\permitted. When she refuses (because of the laws governing such things) she is called a “racist”.
Well that posted well. LOL
Just click on the first link.
You got it. Everything that we are looking at is a result of our moral/cultural decline. People are pursuing a life of perpetual adolescence striving to live like rock stars, millionaires, movie stars or heiresses. All on their or their parents salaries. Then they expect the government to bail them out and pick up the tab. Children being raised with by one parent, absentee parents, goofy parents.
Only by straightening out our spiritual situation will we ever get ou of this mess.
I don’t live in city limits so I don’t get to vote for mayoral elections. My in-laws do and they are part of the “I vote for Democrats because they’re Democrats” crowd.
So they do deserve it.
Funny you should mention Spartanburg. The city I was talking about was Greenville :-).
“Who is John Galt?”
More like we Freepers are getting the leadership they deserve.
“He should sell it not close it. At least walk away with a little cash.”
If you saw what Hazelwood has become, they’d have to pay you to take the building. I don’t think a bar is open in Hazelwood...that’s how bad it is. I am sure he’s going to sell a few things in the store of value. Hopefully his son will reopen somewhere else, but I fear that might not be possible.
Maybe UPMC wants to buy this land ;-)?!
Who is going to buy it? The inventory has value. He can sell it or move it to an inventory liquidator. The building has value, although greatly diminished due to the location. Perhaps ACORN will buy it an operate a thrift store or a group home for junkies. A business that supports thieves has no value.
The 1830’s book “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Toqueville from France he describes an America where crime is virtually non-existent and that Americans were devoutly religious and very few atheists. Government was smaller and more local... how far we have strayed off course.
This is about the dumbest rule I've ever heard of. I wonder how prevalent this is?
“Mayor Ravenstahl is useless. “
Yep. The voters taught him a lesson last time too...instead of taking the usual 65% of the vote, he only managed 60% or so. The last time Pittsburgh had a Republican mayor was back in the 20s if I am not mistaken (or it was the last time a Republican was endorsed by the Post Gazette).
police have told him they can’t arrest someone for stealing merchandise valued at less than $150 unless that person already has a record,
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Does this mean a thief can go on stealing without being arrested as long as they keep each haul below $150? Does that make any sense to normal people?
Your post made me think of this:
If your first offense (and all your subsequent offenses) is stealing less than $150.00 worth of merchandise (per incident), how do you ever start to get a record?
With profit margins for retail grocers running at 2-3%, it wouldn’t take more than a couple of shop lifters taking high value items to eat up any profits for the day.
The grocier is right. He was working for the thieves.
“...My Home Town we had some riots about ten years ago, caused by an incident where a Single-Mom’s Boy (SMB) with 11 warrents on him ran from the cops, ducked into a dark ally, and made a grab to pull up his dopy hahg-off-your-butt-pants that looked too much like “I have a weapon and I’m going for it” and the kid got shot dead. (Turns out his mama always told him “you always run from the police!”)
Anyway, like so often happens, we get burning and looting.
You must be one of Cincinnati’s suburban racist. Just kidding! Just kidding!
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