Those familiar with the Washington, DC area may know the story of Landover Mall, and why that mall went out of business.
When it opened, Landover Mall was a beautiful shopping mall. The area at the time was middle class though racially mixed. As time went on, the black population increased sharply, especially among poorer blacks. Gangs started congregating at the mall and caused trouble sometimes. Graffiti and other evidence of gang presence, such as ripped up seats in the movie theaters there, created a bad atmosphere.
The bad atmosphere frightened shoppers away, which caused sales to drop, which caused some stores to close, which turned more shoppers away. And the packs of youths, menacing legitimate shoppers, scared even more people away. There were gang fights and some other crimes there, which scared off even more.
Eventually the mall was torn down.
Sounds familiar. It is hard to run a legitimate store when most of your product never gets into the stockroom. Many of these stores have to hire security details and only deliver at certain times of the day. Drug stores in those areas have the same problem.
It isn’t at all worth the effort for a company, that is unless they are being threatened with unions in order to serve a fascist president and his wife.