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.
Went to Wallyworld yesterday. Everything in the electronics department is behind glass.
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?
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.
“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.
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.
They want a non-profit grocery store in the “food Desert”.
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
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.
I’ve been a customer of H.E.B. for a half century. I have shaken my head many times over the years and remarked to myself and others that it is literally astounding how well they manage a grocery store and pharmacy with millions of items on the shelfs and in the warehouse. To my knowledge, they’ve never closed a store (but I could be wrong on that).
Food deserts don’t necessarily mean areas of crime. Several Central TX counties have only one or two grocery stores. That’s not a typo. That’s 1-2 grocers in entire counties.
The closest store to us is an HEB and it has had Venezuelan style shopping with empty shelves for decades. On top of that, HEB knows being the only game in town, they can send us the garbage their other stores refuse. Moldy fuzzy strawberries, maggoty potatoes and having to make what amounts to drug deals with the guy in the back for frozen fish. When covid hit, I gave up and am now driving four towns over for groceries.
Last year, San Saba County’s only grocery store burned so they were without until they could throw together another.
Gee, I wonder is these “food deserts” are filled with criminals and thieves that are never prosecuted or ran off by law enforcement of any kind?
Hmm….
Quit stealing all the stuff from the stores and they might come back.
I never thought about that. Of course there will have to be some sort of government subsidy for these mandated “Oasis” locations. A new growth area. Step up one and all and YOU could become the next Elon Musk.
Here’s a story from one of the most socialistic cities in America from last week. The serfs are tiring of the lawlessness apparently but of course they don’t run the asylum and the elites always get the last word until…guillotine anyone?
Here’s the crazy part and one that should motivate people to save feathers and start warming the tar pots. But it won’t, just google Seattle Mayor’s race fundraising leaders and look at the trio of losers who has raised the most cash. Seattle is proof positive of you can’t fix stupid on a citywide scale.
Here’s the money quote from the article;
“The big bust occurred at nine stores on Wednesday in just under 15 hours. Of the 53 people arrested, 16 of them were booked in King County Jail.”
I don’t go anywhere near H E B any more. About 5 or 6 years ago it was my main place for groceries.
Went in one day and went to the deli, tried to get a half pound of turkey sliced. Girl behind the counter was one I had already had trouble with, mexican and spoke no english. Instead of being able to ask me how thick to slice it, she pointed to a sign that shows thickness and slicer number. I had to point at which turkey I wanted.
If you know anything about me, I was seriously unhappy by this point. I told her “between one and two” which is what I wanted, she said OK two, and sliced it too thick. She showed me the first slice, I told her no, I VERY CLEARLY SAID between one and two. Which is what I usually got, no problem. until now.
So she handed it off to another woman who did speak english, I was not hiding the fact that I did not like what was going on. So I clearly told her thinner than that and a half pound. She handed me a FULL POUND, still sliced too thick.
I threw it in the cart, literally, made it very clear I was far from a happy camper, left the store and have always refused to go back, period. My money pays for her to stand there unable to speak english, which seriously pisses me off. She’s not even supposed to BE HERE, I’ll be damned if I will pay her way. I’m sure she still has her job, she had already been there at least a year that I knew of, but I will not put one penny of my money into her paycheck. HEB can take a hike. I will NOT go back.
That’s not the only place, illegals work just about everywhere you look around east texas. Others do the same, but that’s the only one that had someone who literally made no effort in over a year to learn english. The first time I had to deal with the same girl was a year or more earlier, plenty time for her to at least try to learn a little of our language. Mexicans I worked with in carpenter jobs and machine shops did, no reason for her not to.
Even the mexican grocery store down the street, where I go sometimes, has people who do speak english. They have things I can’t find anywhere else, quite often it’s the only place in town that has any Habanero peppers or tangerines. And everyone speaks english. I’m not crazy about the place, but I do like to keep Habaneros around, especially dried and powdered. At least they do try to communicate...
Well maybe if Casey Thomas’ constituents didn’t steal everything in sight there wouldn’t be a food desert.
A while back listening to a local radio guy in Augusta talking to “community leader”, who was complaining that Publix created a food desert, after closing a store, in one area of the city. Radio guy brings up the point that they closed because the amount of shoplifting made it impossible for the store to function. The response was just……equity, fairness, racism, capitalism, equity, blah blah blah blah
Of course the same community leader was championing his new “youth leadership” program that was only open to black kids.
Just waiting for this to come to those Seattle areas where they’re not prosecuting shoplifting. And, any store that closes will be caused racist.
Hey black women. Stop raising thugs without fathers.
Here’s a thought: don’t loot or shoplift in your neighborhood, and it won’t become a food, pharmacy or consumer goods “desert.”