No more five-finger discounts? That's racist!
Posted on 04/17/2023 2:44:28 AM PDT by Salman
The shadow of Walmart’s logo and name hung above the Chatham Supercenter location on Sunday, its last day of operation, as dozens of shoppers streamed in to shop among increasingly empty shelves.
Less than a week ago, the company announced it would close its store at 8431 S. Stewart Ave. along with others in Little Village, Kenwood and Lakeview, saying they were “losing tens of millions” annually and that losses had doubled in the last five years.
The company also noted the $70 million it spent in recent years creating healthcare facilities at its city stores and the Walmart Academy training center, which were also set to close.
Myesha McGarner, a 30-year-old South Shore resident and regular shopper at the Chatham location, said she hadn’t realized it was closing until she entered to find empty shelves and a “ghostly” atmosphere.
She called the company’s explanation a “cop out” and “infuriating,” and said she thought the closures had more to do with the area’s history of disinvestment.
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It’s nice that the community stepped up and handed out free food.
If only those shoppers had gotten their $5 million reparations checks and an annual guaranteed income of $97,000, they would have paid for all the goods in their shopping carts.
“Hmmm...apparently Walmart was de facto handing out free food...its just not sustainable.”
and speaking of the sustainability of handing out “free” food, how many days of “free” food will be sustained by the “community group filling the gap by handing out free food” before they run out of money for the “free” food?
Walmart stores suffer damage from George Floyd protests and looting — several hundred forced to close early
https://www.yahoo.com/video/walmart-stores-suffer-damage-from-george-floyd-protests-and-looting-several-hundred-forced-to-close-early-011242738.html
Brian Sozzi·Executive Editor May 31, 2020, 9:12 PM·2 min read
Walmart (WMT) joins a growing list of retailers whose stores have been vandalized and looted amidst the George Floyd protests sweeping the U.S.
A Walmart spokesperson told Yahoo Finance that more than a dozen stores across the country have sustained damage from the violence (seen below, as an example). Several “hotspots” for the store damage include Minnesota and Dallas, says the spokesperson. Walmart operates more than 5,300 stores in the U.S., including 81 in Minnesota where the protests have been the most intense following the death of Floyd at the hands of a police officer.
The conditions on the ground at some stores led Walmart to close several hundred stores about one hour early on Sunday, the spokesperson added, so employees could return home safely. The majority of these stores are slated to reopen on Monday, provided it’s safe to do so.
LA and San Diego are literal dumpster fires. Check the upstanding citizens looting the Walmart. #LARiots #SanDiego #CaliforniaProtest pic.twitter.com/l0VG6bmtIh
Port Richmond Walmart is now being looted. Several people are stealing TVs and throwing it inside a car.
More looters are pulling up with their cars and looting. Police are moving in #PhillyRiots #PhillyProtest pic.twitter.com/Vd83vVX3Su
— Peter Planamente (@plana_journ) May 31, 2020
Walmart rival Target has also been hit hard by protests and looting, forcing it to take action as well. The discount retailer closed or adjusted hours at 200 stores over the weekend, a spokesperson told Yahoo Finance via email. Target operates 1,900 stores across the U.S, including 73 in Minnesota.
“Economic ignorance.”
the ignorance problem is even broader than with economics, and accounts for automatic voting for the fascist democrats ... such ignorance results from a combination of deliberate policies that foster ignorant voters as well as community attitudes regarding personal effort ...
There you go again, spouting common sense. It’s a bad habit.
Guess I forgot the /s tag in my comment
What is amazing is that no one in her crowd has the intelligence or independence to think (yes, think) that "hey, mebbe we ain't doin' this reality thing right...mebbe there's another way."
When you’re too backwards for a Walmart.
Probably the safest place to go during a street riot.
No more five-finger discounts? That's racist!
“She called the company’s explanation a “cop out” and “infuriating,” and said she thought the closures had more to do with the area’s history of disinvestment.”
Yeah right no one wants to make money. So open a store yourself and clean up.
My daughter lived near the Kenwood neighborhood during the Covid shutdown. With all the little stores closed, the only store around to buy food was Walmart. They drove to Indiana to shop instead of risking it.
Nice. Democrats make everything better.
It’s so nice to see happy shoppers finding bargains!
“...as dozens of shoppers streamed in to shop among increasingly empty shelves.”
Were they really shoppers or were they really looters and shoplifters?
If that demographic didn’t rob and loot the stores in their neighborhoods they wouldn’t have this problem.
I suspect the community group handing out the free food is ultimately financed by the city or county.
All stores are based on hardcore capitalism. You don’t make a profit....you don’t stay open.
Around a dozen years ago, I lived in the Arlington area. Someone pointed out to me...over the whole east side of DC, most of the grocery stores were shutdown. To buy groceries, you crossed over into Maryland or Virginia. Reason? Theft destroyed the business model that had existed for decades.
Same thing going on in SF/LA. Evolution is going on, and inner-city people will be cast aside.
Would be worth an experiment.
How close is it to the Hussein hotel and bath house?
In these areas, more than half the time the food and merchandise never enter the building. It is stolen straight as it comes off the truck by employees and their cohorts waiting for the truck in the neighborhood..
This was a complaint of Walmart and other businesses in Indy who shut down stores in neighborhoods like this.
Some built those stores in a revitalize campaign and were repaid by being robbed blind.
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