Posted on 06/13/2021 3:16:11 AM PDT by fwdude
H-E-B's plan to build three new stores in Collin County is being celebrated in some circles while being criticized in others.
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“Metaphorically it’s adding salt to the wound,” said Dallas City Council member Casey Thomas.
Those working for years to lure brand-name grocers to Dallas, particularly south of I-30, say these kinds of announcements are just another heartbreak.
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For those not in the know, “food deserts” are urban areas of high crime rates, normally racial minority and solidly Democrat, that retail businesses wisely avoid because they’ll suffer catastrophic losses through theft, robbery and property destruction. Dems hate this economic truth.
Second paragraph of your comment - hard truth told succinctly.
They need to lie in the bed they’ve made for themselves.
By the way, many good, white, conservative Americans in “fly-over” country live in “food deserts” too, many driving over an hour to get to food markets. I don’t hear them complaining.
Went to Wallyworld yesterday. Everything in the electronics department is behind glass.
“Everything in the electronics department is behind glass.”
In a riot, that will slow them down in a millisecond.
They talk all around the issue but it all boils down to theft vs profit.
Opened a Walmart Mini Store in our “food desert”. Went there because it had good meats.
Always had good foot traffic when I was there but it closed without giving a reason after 18 months.
So why is it again that retailers don’t place brick and mortar stores in that lanquishing retailers desert?
The article mentions $2.9 million of city (OUR) money given to developers to open a food market in Stop Six (our downtown Portland) and which went bully up in a few years. Throwing money at this issue goes down the toilet.
A Korean food chain opened a supermarket at the outer margin of a philly food desert. There is a cop unit parked at the curb in front, 24/7. Any farther in, and even the police couldn’t make it viable.
“,,,it closed without giving a reason after 18 months.”
Pilferage by employees and open shoplifting by “patrons”.
The outlet was definitely becoming a “not for profit” enterprise, and Wal-Mart can only self-insure against a certain level of individual store losses.
“I often wonder how long it will be until the federal government mandates location “permits” for businesses.”
And don’t think they won’t, not for a SECOND. The end result will be just what the Left demands regarding everything else - which is reparations. In this case, a ‘Supermarket Tax’ of 10 to 20%, built into to the prices of food to account for their ‘handout stores’, where locals come in take what they want.
Get used to it, elections matter, and as long as our side continues to try to ‘purge’ RINOs in November elections, we’ll keep getting more and more of it.
A friend who works for an alcohol distributor said Poor minority neighborhood stores are the biggest sellers of their “top shelf” brands.
I personally know a retired Walmart executive from high up the chain. He says the execs jokingly refer to these failing stores in high-crime areas as “churches” because they don’t turn a profit.
He says that one day, some exec in the home office will get out of bed and decide it’s time to deal with a certain “church.” They will first do a complete review of personnel and store performance in every department. They will then send somebody down to walk into that store unannounced and hold a managers meeting, at which time they will start cleaning house on the spot. The home office exec will remain in town for about a week touring the store and every department to fix problems and make sure the store is up and running on the new turn-around “plan.” If this doesn’t work, they will then close or move the store.
He says this strategy usually works because he himself was a cleanup man for a few years before he moved up the ladder.
Plus it's nearly impossible to find employees with solid skills to do the job and low margins mean the company can't pay to have outsiders travel in to work there.
They want a non-profit grocery store in the “food Desert”.
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
The newest smartphone, the most expensive Nike’s and shopping for overpriced goods all to look like a “big shot”.
Walmart ends practice of locking up black hair care products sold at its stores
You’d think that the Obamas would put together a group of liberals to fund a new chain of grocery stores in food deserts - they could call it “Big Mike’s Food Palace” and feature a special section with Mike’s selections for school meals. Guilty White Liberals from all across the country would flock to invest in it. Maybe even the Clinton Foundation.
Another problem is that chain stores CANNOT charge higher prices in stores in black areas, regardless of the higher costs of operating there, without charges of racist behavior.
It’s better to just not operate there.
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