Posted on 01/30/2022 9:34:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
Of all the burdens Manhattan has borne this January, the imminent closing of the 24-hour Midtown West Rite Aid hardly qualifies as a tragedy. But the fact that an otherwise-thriving major corporation is giving up on core Manhattan matters for our decaying borough.
The pharmacy, on 8th Avenue and 50th Street, will close Feb. 8. Last week, it was effectively already shuttered, with most of the store cordoned off with gates. Just a small, strange assortment — children’s coloring books jumbled with vitamins — was marooned on front shelves on “clearance.”
The clearance prices were ironic — because the reason the Rite Aid is closing is mass-scale shoplifting. As The Post reported last week, the shop lost $200,000 in goods in two months.
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You get what you vote for.
yup
Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin’ is the life for me.
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide
Eff Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
I’m from NY. All I can say is - they deserve everything bad that happens to them. Manhattan is almost uniformly woke, stupid, leftist.
Thou shall not steal is absolute; you shall know the truth and the truth shall st you free.
(mass-scale shoplifting.)
Unfortunately this is happening in retail all over the country.
But liberal policies like in California making up to $950 a misdemeanor is only going to make it worse.
Makes me wonder about these Manhattanites too.
So all the major cities will end up like Detroit? That explains why Atlanta Braves built their new ballpark in Cobb County.
How does this mass theft that closes a store differ from Socialism that is enforced mass theft?
Different faces, same result.
Small crooks or big crooks, take your pick.
Like the Blacks who riot and burn/loot out their neighborhood stores....which do not reopen....how smart does one have ot be to figure that out?
Manhattan is near the top of my bucket list of places not visit. It’s right below Kabul.
"Food deserts" are often blamed on systematic racism. By racist whites' refusal to invest in black communities.
I expect soon we'll be hearing about "pharmacy deserts" and "convenience store deserts."
How do the Amish shoplift so much when they don’t even have pockets?
What’s needed is a law that will require all such shops like Rite-Aid to stay open and fully stocked.
There is large pressure to bring back office workers in NYC. Somewhere between 25 to 40 percent of office workers many never return, that is a massive killer of office buildings value which would also affect Property taxes and outstanding loans on these buildings. Next would be the reduction in demand for merchants such as restaurants. Restaurants cannot survive on loss of 25 to 40 percent of customer base. Again another hit on the tax base. So why does the government allow the increase in crime? This just furthers the devastation of NYC. Either the leaders are idiots or this is on purpose. You would think the money men of NYC would convince the leaders to stop the problem. So I guess I answered my own question.
Put a wall around it and leave them to themselves. Let them live in the utopia they designed and voted for. Just stay away from the rest of us.
This is how “Urban Deserts” are born.
Your comment was incomplete. I believe what you meant to say was: “You get what you vote for, you stupid liberal bastards.”
Must still have too many police.
Funny how they’re so fond of islam, considering that he sharia penalty would be to chop the hands off at the wrist. Even though it’s tempting to do so to stop kleptomaniacs, that’s way too barbaric, not to mention the eighth amendment would forbid it. Instead, restitution is a much better solution. Make shoplifters pay back ten times what they steal, no matter how long it takes. And if they can’t afford it, they can work it off.
It does explain the pants tendency to always be falling off.
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