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Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart, Other Retailers To Not Abandon Chicago
WBBM News Radio (Chicago) ^ | 06/04/2020

Posted on 06/04/2020 10:27:00 AM PDT by DFG

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To: DFG

She needs to be shown a big middle finger.


121 posted on 06/04/2020 3:19:05 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: CatOwner

I’m not surprised that HEB looks squishy on this. Charles Butt enjoys his political clout and has increasingly been sending financial support to Democrats in tight races.


122 posted on 06/04/2020 4:13:29 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Desslok

Also a convenient excuse for Boeing to hat up and head out at the first opportunity...assuming they survive so long.


123 posted on 06/04/2020 4:36:28 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: SERE_DOC


124 posted on 06/04/2020 4:52:16 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: DFG

Oh, ho ho ho....

Eat it, Larry.

Eat it raw.


125 posted on 06/04/2020 5:03:00 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: DFG

Maybe Walmart and the other stores should spend a few hundred million putting stores back together so black thugs and white antifa scum can loot them again.

Sorry Mayor, the ‘white guilt’ card is dead..

Yeah, shareholders want OUT... we don’t want companies to thrown our money away on ingrates who loot. Get real. Police weren’t even allowed to protect their cars so less the city.

Good people need to escape democrat hellholes. Leave those places to the thugs and antifa base of the democrat party. Last people out will have to give away their homes...


126 posted on 06/04/2020 8:51:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night - - the 'white guilt card' died.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Don’t worry. Target will build more stores.

Where the demographics are good.

127 posted on 06/04/2020 8:53:38 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Truth29

On the bright side, it’ll lessen their obesity problem!


128 posted on 06/05/2020 4:32:53 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: bk1000
Why wouldn’t they abandon Chicago?

Because shrinkage losses are tax deductible.

That needs to end.

129 posted on 06/05/2020 4:46:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Walmart’s not stupid. They won’t rebuilt.

The good people in these democrat hellholes need to move out and allow the black community, ‘white antifa’ and corrupt politicians to take over. Chicago can be a showcase for third world hellholes of the World....

The whole city can becomes Englewood...

We can send in bus tours so civilized people can view a real third world hellhole without having to spent weeks and gobs of money traveling abroad.

It’ll be fun.


130 posted on 06/05/2020 5:41:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night - - the 'white guilt card' died.)
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To: Gen.Blather

I’ll tell you the story on how Wal-Mart failed, and it’s a bit amusing.

Wal-Mart, after they’d established around 20 of the stores and had some big plan in the works....came to two serious blunders.

1. They’d go and park a pallet of Pepsi or Coke near the cashier area, and set the price at 5-to-10 percent below ‘cost’...meaning they were giving the cases away at a loss.

German law says...you can’t do this (under any strategy). They repeated this...over and over. In most towns, the fist time was just a warning and light fine. The second time...a more hefty fine came. Eventually, the German lawyers handling this would question the competency of Wal-Mart...that they didn’t grasp this one law.

2. The growth stage meant getting leased property on the outskirts of cities, and getting people into new flashy stores.

Well...downtown shopping districts went ballistic and put serious pressure on city councils to stall and prevent this strategy. Kaiserslautern was one of those communities that tried to prevent Wal-Mart from their new mega store idea.

This issue went on around the country, and was another problem that they’d never faced before. So they called it quits.

Oddly enough....the downtown shopping districts all went into a spin for maybe twenty years, and they’ve all suffered since that point. Other ‘malls’ have developed and sucked the life out of what was normal German shopping.


131 posted on 06/05/2020 6:41:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: CatOwner

They have been closing at 5 pm all week here in my city in Michigan.


132 posted on 06/05/2020 9:22:46 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: bk1000

Why indeed? Their corporate boards are pledging millions to support BLM.


133 posted on 06/05/2020 9:26:08 AM PDT by shotgun
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