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Downtown Seattle Target barely surviving as shoplifting ravages store [“about every 10 minutes” - "In Seattle, they won’t get arrested, booked, or charged for most theft"]
KTTH ^ | January 24, 2022 | JASON RANTZ

Posted on 01/27/2022 6:31:41 AM PST by grundle

The Target department store in downtown Seattle is being absolutely ravaged by shoplifters, with one staff member telling me theft happens “about every 10 minutes.” He wasn’t kidding.

On a recent trip to the store on 2nd Avenue and Pike Street, I saw staff confront two separate shoplifters within 12 minutes of one another. It’s so bad that it’s not just the Biden administration’s supply chain crisis creating the empty shelves. And it’s so dangerous that customers can now only buy some products online as they’ll likely get mugged on the way out of the store.

Homeless men and women flood the Target and steal what they can. In Seattle, they won’t get arrested, booked, or charged for most theft.

“For the safety of our guests the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are only available for purchase on Target.com and Target App via Order Pickup and Drive Up,” the sign reads.

(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; crime; dystopia; kingcounty; retail; seathell; seattle; shoplifting; target; theft; tracycastrogill; washington
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1 posted on 01/27/2022 6:31:41 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Poor Target. Run by progressives, they don’t want to bail, but there is no reason to stay, other than virtue signaling.


2 posted on 01/27/2022 6:33:26 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: grundle

Seattle voted for this. They can live with it.

Its their problem.


3 posted on 01/27/2022 6:33:46 AM PST by Starboard
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To: grundle

The Demonrat Party: The party of DEATH and DESTRUCTION


4 posted on 01/27/2022 6:34:52 AM PST by afchief
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To: grundle

even NBC and CNN now reporting on the crime problem

NBC reports on the “brazen carjacking[s]” in Democrat-run cities
https://rumble.com/vt84lt-nbc-reports-on-the-brazen-carjackings-in-democrat-run-cities.html

CNN: 35% rise in homicides over the last two years in the US
https://rumble.com/vswkl5-35-rise-in-homicides-over-the-last-two-years-in-the-us.html


5 posted on 01/27/2022 6:35:16 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: grundle

Home Depot would be sad, Target who cares. Progressives just keep feeding on their own.


6 posted on 01/27/2022 6:36:11 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: grundle

Sounds like the ideal for the Target business model.


7 posted on 01/27/2022 6:36:18 AM PST by stevem
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To: brownsfan

The theft and looting attract nasty people.

Who wants to shop in a dangerous store that’s a magnet for criminals?


8 posted on 01/27/2022 6:36:21 AM PST by Starboard
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To: grundle

LOL-—Target supports this leftist crap!!! Haha, there’s your “equality and fairness” first hand.


9 posted on 01/27/2022 6:36:32 AM PST by mikelets456
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Target is getting what they support. Lawlessness. Perversion (allowing men in womens dressing rooms) and donations out the wazoo to liberal a&&wipes and here we are. Maybe “BLM” and “defund the police” signs out front will help? hahahahahahahaha


10 posted on 01/27/2022 6:37:41 AM PST by albie
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To: grundle

Put 2x guys with baseball bats at the entrance.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 6:38:35 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: grundle

Corporate HQ I think is still in downtown Minneapolis.


12 posted on 01/27/2022 6:39:32 AM PST by Zathras
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To: grundle

A normal company would just shut it down - but Target doesn’t want to appear not be woke enough to let people steal.


13 posted on 01/27/2022 6:39:36 AM PST by qwerty1234
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“For the safety of our guests the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are only available for purchase on Target.com and Target App via Order Pickup and Drive Up,”

Electronics desert.

These companies that hoped to harvest public assistance (TAXPAYER) money from our idle underclass are paying the piper...


14 posted on 01/27/2022 6:40:10 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: janetjanet998

The level of crime and violence in this country is simply out of control and at insane levels. And its getting worse by the day.

Normal, law abiding citizens live in constant fear — any pay higher prices for everything due to crime.

No end in sight to this madness. We are a country is serious decline.


15 posted on 01/27/2022 6:40:28 AM PST by Starboard
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Remember food deserts? Now downtown will just be a desert. The IP’s will have to roam the ‘burbs for food and forage. Look out ‘burbs...


16 posted on 01/27/2022 6:41:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: grundle

Flee Seattle. It is no longer sleepless and no longer safe.


17 posted on 01/27/2022 6:41:10 AM PST by CptnObvious
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To: grundle

The first priority of government is to protect the citizens. When government fails in its primary mission, anarchy reigns.


18 posted on 01/27/2022 6:43:15 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: grundle

I’m guessing there will be a domino affect here. Some poor slob is standing in line to pay for his items. And he sees other folks walking out of the store without paying.

Maybe that poor slob is morally weak. So maybe he starts to think about walking out without paying too.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 6:43:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Starboard

Yes the consumers in non downtown ravaged areas will pay for the excess of the city crime spree. Call it Reparations II.


20 posted on 01/27/2022 6:43:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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