Posted on 08/22/2020 8:58:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
First, people in NY do eat out a lot, much more often than people do elsewhere.
There are grocery stores. Most NYers shop at them, and avoid bodegas/convenience stores because they are much more expensive.
There are hand cart and also mini-pushcarts in most stores. Many people bring their own folding carts, since one has to get the goods back home without a vehicle.
The ‘little-shop’ mentality/preference in Germany is rapidly disappearing and regular grocery-store operations are taking root in most all urbanized zones. Fruit and vegetable dedicated shops still survive, but the little-guy shops are rapidly disappearing (they can’t compete).
I look at this NY transformation coming in the next decade, and it’ll be the same way. Too much crime facing the little grocery operations, and regular shops with dedicated armed guards at the door will be the norm in another year or two.
I do agree....having a first-name relationship with your local little-guy grocery was the better deal, but that’s dying off now.
How strange! If I remember correctly, Aldi was there when I was there and a few Lidl were in existence. However, I don’t remember if that was in “the Zone” or in Berlin. I don’t remember either in Berlin
Many are neighborhood fencing operations for all sorts of crimes, selling drugs, laundering, cashing in social service checks, government checks, handing out credit, loan sharking , gambling you name it
Huh, whaddaya know?
This is not correct.
We’re pretty much on our own,”
Yep. So what are you going to do about it?
This is not correct.
This is not correct.
For anyone else curious...
https://www.legalaidnyc.org/programs-projects-units/decarceration-project/
There were a couple more incorrect posts, but I’m not going to make a hobby of pointing them out. Oblomov has explained part of it.
In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle,
“Well, sur-PRIZE, sur-PRIZE!!!”
Who’d a thunk it, huh?
Useful idiots.
I trust you weren’t referring to what I posted...?
It’s just another hidden tax. Stores calculate their shrinkage and adjust their markups accordingly. YOU pay for the shoplifters. Silent reparations.
The cops couldn’t be bothered if the DA won’t prosecute.
No criminal need go hungry in comrade Wilhelm’s paradise.
No, I wasn’t.
In my area in NJ there are few white employees exposed to urban Simbas in stores; they are usually staffed by foreigners. This type of incident would happen only when the Simbas rampage beyond their borders, which is increasing in frequency as their own nests are hollowed-out deserts with nothing of value left.
In ‘their society’ stealing is a daily norm for many. ..and this with bragging about what tey got away with. It’s esculated because it’s not being prosecuted....so they’re ‘having at it’.
I really wonder if the people that write these sentences are serious or if they know what they have to write and then go overboard on it and then laugh to themselves afterwards. I actually hope it is the latter.
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