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Shoplifting Kills a Rite Aid — and Maybe Manhattan’s Comeback Chances
New York Post ^ | January 30, 2022 | Nicole Gelinas

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; aoc; bidenvoters; crime; dystopia; manhattan; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; nicolegelinas; retail; riteaid; shoplifting; theft
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To: MinorityRepublican; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

“So all the major cities will end up like Detroit? That explains why Atlanta Braves built their new ballpark in Cobb County.”

The Chicago Bears have bought up a huge, well located by major highways plot of land in a prime northwest suburb of Chicago, Arlington Heights. Gee, I wonder why.....


21 posted on 01/30/2022 11:58:05 PM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: MinorityRepublican
So all the major cities will end up like Detroit?

Detroit moved the Lions and Pistons from the suburbs back to downtown.

22 posted on 01/31/2022 12:13:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris
But liberal policies like in California making up to $950 a misdemeanor is only going to make it worse.

A bum in Seattle was arrested for his 22d shop lifting at one mid-town Target the other day

He is recorded on security stealing a 70 inch TV. Value $750 so he was only be charged with a misdemeanor (under $950 threshold for a felony).

He has 15 other arrests at other Seattle stores.

23 posted on 01/31/2022 12:41:03 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: nickcarraway

The Rite Aid lost $200,000 in goods in two months.


24 posted on 01/31/2022 12:55:58 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Angelino97
I expect soon we'll be hearing about "pharmacy deserts" and "convenience store deserts."

Essentially: "White-people deserts."

Regards,

25 posted on 01/31/2022 12:57:25 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: llevrok

Where is the three strikes and habitual criminals go to jail for life law when you need it?


26 posted on 01/31/2022 1:05:22 AM PST by Hootowl
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To: llevrok

Wow


27 posted on 01/31/2022 1:17:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Beagle8U; nickcarraway
How do the Amish shoplift so much when they don’t even have pockets?

They do have pockets, but you just don't notice them because they're down between their knees and their ankles ...


28 posted on 01/31/2022 1:30:05 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: dfwgator

“You get what you vote for...” is a valid assertion, assuming that the election is conducted fairly. Sadly, that is a big assumption. I live in a “one party” jurisdiction myself, and there always seems to be an errant box of ballots appearing just in the nick of time to re-elect the local Leftist. By creating urban enclaves they have long claimed as their fiefdoms, Democrats have come to successfully control states that have have otherwise conservative constituencies. The latest con is to “colonize” more rural districts via clandestine import of illegal aliens. The corrosive nature of machine politics will not be undone by elections alone.


29 posted on 01/31/2022 2:10:55 AM PST by CharlesThe Hammer ( Molon Labe)
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To: dfwgator

Like living in a toilet, keep voting for the sh##


30 posted on 01/31/2022 3:03:04 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: PGR88

I’ll second that. To hell with them.


31 posted on 01/31/2022 3:14:53 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ronnie raygun

Are you aware that NYC recently had RCV shoved down its throat?

If NYC is so reliably leftist, why would Deep State do that, eh?


32 posted on 01/31/2022 3:17:35 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: mewzilla

Note to Gothamites: Want your city back? Repeal RCV. Go back to dumb voting machines.


33 posted on 01/31/2022 3:18:29 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: OldArmy52

Politicians in suits are the worst gonefs of them all. They’ve “legalized” extraction of money via taxes at the point of a gun if necessary.


34 posted on 01/31/2022 3:20:11 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: j.havenfarm; dfwgator
Interestingly, what you’re seeing in this case is an unfortunate feature of life in a major metro area where people don’t live in the same place where they work.

One of the best things to come out of the large-scale migration to a “work from home” business model is that people will spend most of their time working in the place where they live, pay taxes, and VOTE … and they’ll stop giving a sh!t about the expensive, dysfunctional urban dump where they used to spend most of their days but where they had no political influence at all.

35 posted on 01/31/2022 3:35:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Lockbox
Either the leaders are idiots or this is on purpose.

Most wealthy get rich off real estate, not stocks or bonds. There's far more money involved. Smart-money profits off dumb-money, and there's far more dumb-money in real estate. The most common tactic is to destroy the value of a real estate market by importing undesirables, buy it, throw the bums out, then profit. Blockbusting is a form of it, although in the suburbs, bombing a neighborhood with section 8 Democrats is the modern equivalent.


36 posted on 01/31/2022 3:41:43 AM PST by Reeses
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To: Lockbox
And all I hear is that PROPERTY VALUES in NYC are SKYROCKETING!! I WILL NEVER BELIEVE THAT!

WHO wants to live in these big cities anymore?? UGH.

37 posted on 01/31/2022 3:51:27 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: No name given
Hey Newbie.....name ONE SHOPLIFTER THAT PAYS BACK TEN TIMES WHAT THEY STEAL or WORK IT OFF!!!

Maybe you are SO NEW HERE you forgot the SARCASM TAG!

38 posted on 01/31/2022 3:53:54 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

and Amazon or the various home delivery services pick up the slack.


39 posted on 01/31/2022 4:29:49 AM PST by John Galt's cousin ("Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: John Galt's cousin
and Amazon or the various home delivery services pick up the slack.

At which point, instead of shoplifters, you must contend with porch pirates.

40 posted on 01/31/2022 4:43:22 AM PST by Angelino97
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