The media is perplexed, confused, flummoxed in their ability to identify what all of the locations might have in common. Funny that.
According to Target Inc. they are closing stores in urban areas in four specific states. The stores Target plans to close will shut their doors on October 21. The stores include the East Harlem location in New York City, two locations in Seattle (WA), three locations in Portland (OR), and three locations in San Francisco and Oakland (CA). {link}
“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in a statement. “We know that our stores serve an important role in their communities, but we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all.” {LINK}
Remember when all the alerts a few years ago indicated that people should quickly evaluate their proximity and carefully consider relocating away from blue urban areas?
Well, it’s only going to get worse….
Whole Foods (Amazon) is running a pilot program requiring customers to scan a QR Code with a cell phone in order to enter the store. All purchases are then automatically debited to an account associated with that phone.
We are watching the future of retail being rolled out:
Uncontrolled crime is being allowed to break the existing system (crisis).
Near the breaking point the proposed “reform” will be a digitally-based, ID-dependent system in which all purchases and purchasers are tracked and “managed” (solution).
keeler: Yes, because China-style digital control is the envy of western tyrants.
Steak and Shake, some Dunkin’s , and CVS no longer have people at the register to check you out. The places I will shop are really diminishing.
McDonalds as well at some locations.
Was watching a show on Hulu. McDonald’s ran an ad that claims 1 in 8 people in the workforce started their work history working for McDonald’s. The ad ends by calling for workers to come and work for them. Seems like they tried automation and it failed now they need all those people back.
A lot of kids 1st jobs for 15, 16 YO were in Fast Foods- back when it seemed every HS kid worked as soon as they were able.
Can’t believe the amount of young kids who don’t even work anymore.
Yes, there are many without a work ethic, but from the perspective of a mom with daughters in that high school and young adult age, their potential coworkers and/or bosses can be, frankly, creepy.
To just go out and ‘get a job’ (at a fast food company, for instance) in today’s culture is naive or foolish. We just read the book of Ruth in Scripture. It is very relevant.
Businesses would flourish more in a moral society because they would attract good people who felt safe with their employers and co-workers.
Ultimately, if we have to go all Jane Austen society and keep our daughters under family protection, so be it.
I agree. The worst kind of people are at those low level jobs nowadays. Public transportation gets them everywhere now.
Brannon Howse is convinced from his research that if they reinstate the draft, women will be included. I watch his shows on Frankspeech every weeknight from 8-10 pm EST. Exceptional source of vital information! My number 2 go-to, after this amazing treehouse.
In the ’60’s, I started out at 16 as a soda jerk at Isaly’s Sunday morning church crowd (lots of chicks) swamped the place at noon for ice cream!
My first job was a local burger joint, next to a Baptist church. Every Friday evening after services we got swamped. Fun days at age 16.
How Banks Will Set Hulu’s Value if Disney and Comcast Can’t Agree
“…the combination of those apps is designed to obviously help the business become profitable.
“Hulu is a diversified business in terms of its content offering, it’s done extremely well on the advertising front, it will help in terms of viewer engagement and advertising, meaning…
“…it’s the right thing for us to do as we prioritize turning that business, not just into a profitable business, but a growth business, which I’m confident we can do.”
–Bob Iger, CEO, Disney
thewrap.com/hulu-fair-market-value-appraisal-disney-comcast/
Now all those displaced “workers” will get signed up for their gubmint “universal basic income”. See how it works?
McDonald’s Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes as Retail Apocalypse Crush World’s Biggest Fast Food Chain
https://discern.tv/mcdonalds-is-collapsing-before-our-eyes-as-retail-apocalypse-crush-worlds-biggest-fast-food-chain/
Back in the 2010 recession, McD’s dollar menu was a blessing. You could get a McDouble, small fries and large drink for $3 plus tax. Now they are looking at a single meal for $20?? WTF!
Hey, maybe it costs more to manufacture that fake pink goo that passes for beef these days!
LA Taco Bell’s.
We will have to start bartering. You will start seeing signs on garden gates “5 pounds potatoes for a pound of honey” etc
I keep a distant neighbor in fruit and veg from my garden, and when he goes hunting and fishing he shares the protein
We do the same with a few things here Right to reply.
We also are careful as to who we let know about our “system”.
No signs on the gate advertising eggs or fruit to swap, everything is word of mouth.
I am not sure why.
Perhaps it is to keep the liberals who move here from learning how and where to barter and to go back to the cities they turned into 3rd world catastrophe’s.
A euphemism for fruits and vegetables exchanged for sex??
Did I read that right ‘he shares the protein’?
Well, okay…
I used to LOVE Steak n’ Shake. Their garlic n’ butter bunned steakburger was heavenly. So disappointing.
Yes, the last time I went into CVS (to pick up my mother’s prescription) the lone clerk stood there directing customers to self-checkout kiosks. I remember when this happened in the banks, with staff introducing customers to their brand-new ATM machine.
Talk about helping yourself out of a job!
Mark of the Beast
Kroger are saying no cash in 2024
Only idiots will shop at Kroger then.
After getting my phone SIM card hacked, using my telephone or telephone number is the last thing I have in mind for using it as an authentication device.
Once the SIM was hacked, they got hold of my Hotmail account and PayPal account – the PayPal account hack was happening in real time thankfully otherwise I would have never known that my bank account was getting cleaned. I had to cancel my credit cards, bank accounts, put a credit lock in all three credit check services.
Worst service to use is PayPal- be very aware. It is almost a year and I still don’t have access to my PayPal account. That is a blessing. The worst part was they refused to reimburse the fraudulent direct bank withdrawal because the guy did the transfer as a family transfer. Since it happened in real time and thankfully bank customer service is open 24/7, I could put a stop to this shenanigan at 11pm on a Friday night with my bank and next
morning showed up at the bank to close all accounts and open a new one.
Good luck if you could get in touch with PayPal customer service- they are not available at night and after trying for at least 10 times with minimum one hour hold, I finally let go of my PayPal account.
Thankfully I do not have a business and I did not use it for purchasing beyond 100 dollars. I cannot imagine what would have happened if it was my business account.
And all this happened because someone got hold of my phone number via SIM card hack and locking me out of it. I am more than certain it was an inside job from my prepaid wireless service provider but that is a story for another day.
PayPal is not a bank, and is headquartered in Lichtenstein.
That’s your buddy Elon’s creation
Elon didn’t create PayPal. He joined the company well after it was established and functioning, just a short while before it was sold. I can’t recall all the details but I’ve read somewhere online that the actual founders who created PayPal were peeved that about this generally held perception.
Wow!
Sorry for your trouble!
keeler: “Whole Foods (Amazon) is running a pilot program requiring customers to scan a QR Code with a cell phone in order to enter the store. “
Well now, that’ll work until 15 -20 free range urban shoppers crash the door at the same time, load up and leave, never mind the niceties of QR codes.
Doors locked and only open with a QR code? Hotwire a handy SUV ‘key’ in the parking lot and use it to open the door. Pretty soon, greeters will be demanding hazard pay.
Last time (during the plandemic, in florida, where they couldn’t make me wear a mask) I visited whole foods, I paid in grubby dollar bills handed to a rainbow haired alphabet person
They were freaking out as they touched the cash
I enjoyed every minute of that transaction
Bwaaaaaahahahahahha!
Ahhhh the days of tp shortages.
I remember walking into the Dollar General in my town with no mask and all the masked idiots just stared at me wile I waited in line to pay for my purchases. I rode my bike there so I was also a bit flushed and out of breath. No one said a single thing to me, including the cashier.
Purchases made, I made my unmasked exit.
My daughter’s dorm commissary actually closed down after my husband handed the clerk a $20 bill to purchase coffee. Perplexed at the sight of -gulp- CASH, the clerk locked up her “cash” register and wandered away in a (vain) search for change.
Or just smash thru the glass windows.
The only people who are gonna follow those rules, are people who follow rules.
18 years ago a colleague shared his experience working at a gas station in Chicago while he was a student – the gas station had doors that could be opened only from inside. His cashier cabin was bullet proof. He was given strict instructions to never step out of the cashier’s office even if the entire store was emptied out in front of his eyes. The way his store was robbed was – someone would buzz him and he will unlock the door. His accomplice will then put a foot in the door preventing it from getting locked again and they would rob the store.
Someone needs to let Bozo know that QR code to let the customers in is not going to work in places like CA, OR, Seattle, etc.
We have one here in Austin (Cedar Park) that encourages the QR code but doesn’t require it. Might be hard to enforce. Kind of racist you know.
Obamaphones.
A decade later, in the dawning era of remote voting, the digital dollar, ID-gated internet usage, and mass surveillance the free phone program has taken on aspects beyond those of a welfare handout..
No requirement for this kind of shopping we’re seeing in blue states
https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2023/09/26/breaking-widespread-mass-looting-in-philly-video-live-police-scanner-n1730165
A moral society is a free society. We don’t need surveillance or digital prisons when governed by the Christian ethic.
And back in the day businesses knew the names of their customers and both parties knew the importance of the other.
We still know (and appreciate) our local shopkeepers and they know (and appreciate) us. One, a pizzeria, gives away free food when we order dinner near closing time.
Another always stocks TP, etc.. and rations it to their regular customers, unlike the big box stores that sit back, apathetically, as overzealous hoarders empty the shelves.
Short answer NO. Will not do that. Don’t have to shop there.
Yes!
QR code to buy but no ID to vote…
Thats the Tesla way-when you buy a Tesla (& maybe other EV’s) you have to have a credit card registered on file with them. When you plug your car in at a charging station-your credit card is automatically billed for the cost of the “fossil fuel” energy you are buying.
Problem is, when stores close in blue states, these people who are here for ‘everything is free’ is going to migrate to the red states. Near future or so it seems.
Not so…The Government is salivating that they can now open markets in these areas for the “people”
They won’t care how much is stolen…they can’t lose profit when the tax payer is funding it all….. And no shareholders to worry about…them morons in those areas will just keep paying, but at the same time they can open all the tranny markets they want
Yes. See Brandon Johnson in Chicago that wants to open a City (taxpayer) funded, grocery store.
The government and military created the junkies, and now they want you to feed them too.
Ever notice we never napalmed a single poppy field in Afghanistan, or told Pakistan to burn theirs?
Correct! Phase One of ending the American free enterprise system was Covid I. Phase Two of this sinister plan is the ongoing scourge of lawless raids on Big Box, or high-end businesses leading gradually to the point where Obama’s Marxists will claim that it was the fault of capitalism, hence the need to build at taxpayer expense stores and markets, i.e. USA Hardware, USA Markets, USA Furniture etc.
I’ve been waiting a long time for this to happen, and the Left will certainly be accelerating its ongoing plans before Nov. 2024.
Lastly, I hope the business sector has heard Garland’s and Wray’s loud DROP DEAD ! answer regarding any assistance along the lines of, let’s see, LAW ENFORECEMENT!
But, to be fair, we have to admit that they’ve got their DEI down pat. I mean, it’s not like they’ve been doing nothing!
If that were true, why are a lot of the stores closing in those areas? The supply and demand will (is) become greater than those kind of stores will be able to keep up. Liberals talk the good talk but they always have dreams far reaching actual reality and the conservatives end up getting hurt.
The stores that are closing will become the supply chains for the government stores. Guaranteed contracts without the worry of a retail outlet having to turn a profit.
Try that in a small town…
In tribute to Tony Bennet’s passing last month,
Target issued a musical press release:
We closed our stores…
…In San Francisco
Other side of record:
They stole my cart…
Hilarious
HA!!!!
Golfed at Harding Park in San Francisco a few years back (as a tourist). The pro shop strongly suggested that we bring all of our luggage and other belongings into the pro shop for safekeeping, while we golfed.
😱 … classy, eh?
That’s awful… sad.
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I a related story … CVS is closing 1,000 stores because of shoplifting
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cvs-is-permanently-closing-hundreds-of-stores-for-a-surprising-reason/ar-AA1heCeP#image=AA1h92JA%7C1
Welcome to the lawless States of America. In another related story … a Contractor who lives down the street from me on a quiet, safe, upper, upper, middle class community in the San Francisco Bay Area had his shitty old truck (laden with tools) stolen at 5:30 am yesterday. But my neighbor was awake, and gave chase … so the fine new immigrant “dreamers” abandoned his truck and fled in their getaway car. Yeah, we have multiple cam shots of the perps auto. They WILL get caught … and they WILL be released without bail by our Soros funded DA, Diana Benton. Yeah … she be black, yo.
Damn you auto-correct! Diana Becton
“Whoever invented auto-correct should go to hello!”
The inventor of autocorrect passed away this week. May he restaurant in peas.
I’m stealing that one!
It’s hard to find out what the local crime rate is here in Porterville, CA. The local paper has completely stopped reporting on local crime.
The only indication I have is that none of the stores, Walmart, Target, etc. put anything behind locked glass…yet.
Our own police dept. is not reporting crime in the local paper. At least no known perps. No follow up. Seems to be a plan to make sure the perps feel safe continuing.
They are protecting property values and the reelection of local leadership by not releasing crime stats.
Over the next year more than 2,000 drug stores will be closing between Rite Aide and CVS.
So the numbers signify what?
Electoral votes
Perhaps the most famous quote from the movie JAWS is “we’re going to need a bigger boat.” My second favorite quote is from Matt Hooper talking to the mayor of Amity.
Hooper : [shouting] YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS? Mayor Vaughn : I don’t think either of one you are familiar with our problems. Hooper : I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!
I so wish that the people who voted for this destruction that is upon us could be the only ones who will suffer from it. I am definitely enjoying watching Target suffer. I was already boycotting Target due to their bathroom policies from years back. I just wish that I could boycott them more.
I stopped shopping at Target when they did away with the Christmas kettles the Salvation Army used to set up in front of the store. It was many years ago.
Before they did that they refused to let us do Toys for Tots because they didn’t approve of the Iraq war. Never forgiven them for punishing kids like that.
I quit when they let men into the womens restrooms.
Funny that – –
I was just talking to my granddaughter about Target a couple of weeks ago. I have never shopped there since they allowed men in the girls bathroom.
Target may have temporarily changed their bathroom policy back but not their thinking. See LGBTQ+++ stock as an example.
My teenage granddaughter was in a restroom when a man came in. She was expecting privacy and suddenly didn’t have it. She was out of the RR in a flash and made her fears known. People need to speak out on this topic.
Great news! The only thing that bothers me is people are leaving those places in mass and ruining everywhere else they go.
Well another problem Target will have is the more their stores close in them leftist strongholds….the more they close the more they will be at the mercy of the consumer and more effective boycotts – They are going to have to change or they will be the next woolworths
What I’ve found interesting is people in the small towns are making it known to the people moving there that they aren’t wanted unless they leave their trash at the state line. Funnily enough, the guy who delivers hay to my farm told me that a newcomer called him asking for hay and he told him he didn’t have any! That’s how it’s going to work. The buyer was condescending and rude, so he’s just not going to get what he wants, at least not locally. I thought it was hilarious.
From President Trump!
The widespread, radical attack against me, my family, and my supporters has now devolved to new, un-American depths, at the hands of a DERANGED New York State Judge, doing the bidding of a completely biased and corrupt “Prosecutor,” Letitia James, who ran for office based on a “GET TRUMP” platform, before even knowing anything about me. Today’s action is a refutation of my status as the leading Candidate for President of the United States, including with a substantial lead over Joe Biden. It is a terrible reminder that the Radical Left Democrats will stop at nothing in trying to prevent me, and the American people, from winning the 2024 Presidential Election. Regardless of Party, we cannot let this happen in the United States of America! As my lead in the polls over Joe Biden continues to skyrocket, these Corrupt and Highly Political Prosecutors and Judges are getting more and more desperate and dangerous. We are rapidly becoming a Communist Country, and my Civil Rights have been taken away from me. The New York State Attorney General went before a Highly Politicized Democrat Judge, who refused allowing the case to go to the Commercial Division, where it belonged, to simply rule, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, that I committed fraud, which is both ridiculous and untrue. As an example, this Democrat Operative valued Mar-a-Lago, the most spectacular and valuable property in Palm Beach, Florida, to be worth as low as $18 Million, when in actuality, it could be worth almost 100 times that amount. He hated everything about me at a level that I have never seen before, even beyond the hatred of that displayed by Letitia James. There was no trial and no jury for the supposed “wrongdoing” OF FULLY PAYING BACK SOPHISTICATED WALL STREET BANKS IN FULL, WITH INTEREST, WITH NO DEFAULTS, AND WITH NO VICTIMS. These Banks were represented by the largest, most sophisticated Law Firms in the Country. This is Democrat Political Lawfare, and a Witch Hunt at a level never seen before. It is an attempt to badly injure the opposing Party’s Leading, by far, Political Candidate. Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. My Civil Rights have been violated, and some Appellate Court, whether Federal or State, must reverse this horrible, un-American decision. If they can do this to me, they can do this to YOU!
Meanwhile this business goes on as usual with no call of investigation of fraud; even when they are finding more evidence and records of renumerations and deposits of business dealings of a guy’sfamily who own no legit business!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-received-260000-in-wires-from-china-guess-where-they-were-sent-n1730134
What’ll happen when
no one will deliver goods to homes because they’re delivery vans are robbed?
And when semi-trucks are ambushed (tires blown out) and cargo stolen?
I keep telling people. Stores are going to shutdown and become dark stores. They will be warehouses armed by the military, and you will get your designated weekly slot, and they will tell you what you can have.
There’s a reason they haven’t done a remake
Therein lies the problem. Everywhere.
Well, in red states where we have open or concealed carry, the driver can just shoot the robber. Problem solved.
Is anyone else experiencing shoppenfreud?
close ’em all.
they built a megaaaa store in prosper tx. i pray for all the young females using their restrooms.
Closing three stores in Portland ??
Number One! Number One! Number One!
Living in Oregon, I mostly think of Portland as #2.
Today met an acquaintance who moved to CA around 6-7 years ago from Northern Virginia. He moved back because of rampant crime and in his words – it is unlivable. Sad but this is what has happened to this great nation.
Wayne Allyn Root suggests a “giveaway” program that Trump could promise that would win the election for him and the GOP in a landslide. The best part is that it’s not really a giveaway program at all. It’s a reversal of an unconscionable policy that never should have been passed in the first place and that members of both parties should be opposing. It punishes some of the most vulnerable Americans by taxing away their money that’s already been taxed.
https://www.wnd.com/2023/09/trump-can-win-back-white-house-just-1-promise/
It appears that they are being targeted.
The ones in Garbageville / Riot-town are in sketchy areas of town that a couple decades ago were nice.
Along with those we also have, I believe, what was the first mall west of the Mississippi, Lloyd Center in 1960 getting torn down due to the rampant crime and flash mobs in the last Two decades.
It was a beautiful upscale place in the 60’s.
The stupid voters keep voting for the same idiots.
But we’re not at bottom yet, the clueless are still majorly clueless and woke.
Nobody votes for the marxists destroying our county. CA is still a red state, the commies count the votes and select the criminals that they install.
Correctomundo.
This would be a great time for President Trump to visit a few Target stores that are closing in California…right after he visits the Auto workers..
Biden would be a real tough position after that…What is he going to do? Also visit targets that are closing because of policies he supports? Man woud that be a complete disaster…
President Trump’s opponent in Nov. 2024 might be CA Gov. Newsom. If so, then this would be a good thing for President Trump to bring up.
“Gov. Newsom, crime in CA so high, that a lot of stores in California closing due to crime. Why is the crime rate in CA so high?”
This is the Ballard neighborhood, where one of the two Washington State Targets slated to be closed in located. This used to be a quaint, quiet Scandinavian themed area in North Seattle, with high property values and low crime – a highly desirable area just 15 minutes from downtown….now, the sidewalks are lined with tent cities and there are shootings several times a week.
sigh….Ballard was one of the safest, sweetest neighborhoods in Seattle.
The “downtown” area, the Ballard Locks, the beach at Golden Gardens Park where you could build a campfire and sit by the water all night, etc etc etc.
Takes a special kind of stupid to destroy a place like that.
Knew Ballard was finished when they moved all the homeless drug addicts into the Childrens Park in the middle of downtown Ballard >>> and pushed the children out.
If that didn’t show what Seattlites priorities were, I don’t know what did.
And that was more than 10 years ago.
I lived and worked in the Seattle area for 19 years [98-17]. It was beautiful.
Then it went from goofy liberal to lunatic leftist.
Clinton destroyed rural economies in WA & OR with the spotted owl scam in 93′ and left each state ruled by its leftist megacity.
They have gotten worse and worse ever since.
I remember my daughter and her husband taking us to this area. I especially remember Golden Gardens and how beautiful it was.
My first trip to Seattle was in 2007. We mostly did the tourist stuff like the ducks ride. But over the last 16 years of visiting them we have seen more of the natural beauty of the PNW. There is so much more than just Seattle, although Seattle was still pretty nice when I first went out there.
It is heartbreaking to see the decline.
Ahhh, you are clearly a true Seattleite – you know all the real places that somehow we all took for granted!
Spent my childhood walking on the railroad tracks between Carkeek Park and Golden Gardens, roaming the Market, Friday nights at the Fun Forest…still remember the excitement that filled the whole city when the Sonics won the NBA Championship!
I so miss my beautiful Emerald City! I was always so proud to say that I was from Seattle – now, I say it with a sadness, and a deep anger at the people who have allowed it to be destroyed!
Love the image of walking the rails between Carkeek and Golden Gardens as a kid!
I didn’t grow up there, but lived there from ’91- ’05.
Lived at the north end of the Ave., which was a *great* location for walking to Roosevelt, Green Lake, Ravenna, Lake Washington, Wallingford, Fremont, Cap Hill, Downtown, nearly everywhere! Fantastic “Walking City” !!!
The BEST thing tho, was the Ravenna Ravine, just 2 blocks from my apt.. Walk in there, and you were suddenly transported to a Wilderness of Solitude smack in the middle of the city.
Used to walk thru there several times a week, both with friends and by myself. Used to settle in and paint there, beautiful spot for that.
Now it’s covered with Drug Addicted who-knows – what.
No sane person will go near the place.
Ditto for the Childrens Park at one end of the trail. Again, Seattle loves pushing children OUT, so drug addicts can be “comfortable”.
Walking to Roosevelt District Whole Foods back in ’05, I came across a huge pile of used syringes on the sidewalk, curb, road. Knew it was time to Get. Out.
Twenty years later, you couldn’t pay me to go to Seattle.
Imagine having loved ones living in Seattle or Portland who have no idea about the connection between political policy and unsafe communities. I pray that their eyes would be opened, and I keep the spare room ready.
There is none so blind as those who will not see!! I DO have loved ones, as well as friends and neighbors, who continue to pretend that the destruction of the city is somehow NOT related to the very policies they have championed and supported for decades!
How long before businesses leave the BIG blue cities altogether? Will they get replaced by govt businesses like chicago plans on doing?
Madness
>>”The media is perplexed…”
No, they’re not. They’re pretending to be perplexed. They know, like everybody knows. They’re just afraid to speak the truth.
At some point, they’re going to have to weigh that cost-benefit analysis, and realize that the admittedly high cost of telling the truth is still a better deal than continuing to pretend and lie.
I’m glad Target was blunt about the reason for the closings: “theft and organized retail crime”. This is a time to be clear, not a time to be tactful.
Target is weird. They opened a few stores in Canada for the first time a couple of years ago. And closed them all after less than a year. High prices for shoddy merchandise didn’t help.
I have a nephew who is department manager for Whole Foods in Vancouver. Constant stories about shoplifting, intimidation, weird customers, threats and so on. Being woke he and his staff refuse to confront anyone and just let things take their course. And the manager getting mad at one employee who tried to intervene for ‘putting the staff in danger.’
And what’s with the refusal to accept cash in many places in southern California? I ran up really bloated bills when forced to use a credit card in various places even though I had cash available. Dunkin Donuts on Hollywood Blvd refused after 12 PM. Mind you, it’s a real decrepit area now. And in the heart of Adam Schiff territory.
So obvious that nothing happens by accident. The Klaus Schwab world of the future is being incrementally implemented.
Employees treating the till like their own personal petty cash fund is a major reason many stores switch to card-only. Also, robbery. But mostly, employee theft. I’ve seen it first-hand all my working life. It’s also the biggest cause of employee turnover at any gas station convenience store. Just ask any owner.
Oh, and its the same demographic, mostly. Not exclusively, but the vast majority of cases in my experience. Didn’t matter the business — if there was a cash drawer, money was stolen from it. Restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, convenience stores, boutiques.
My friend’s wife was in charge of Canadian Target. He did a MBA research presentation about the failure. Target did not realize Canadians shop differently than we here in the US. Nobody did shopper studies to find out if the stores would be frequented. Executives figured Canadians are the same as US shoppers.
Stores Looted in Philadelphia by “Large Crowds of Juveniles”
Its an epidemic.
Victims of systemic racism, implicit bias, and the legacy of slavery helping themselves to much-deserved reparations. And redlining. Don’t ever forget about the horrors of redlining.
The very people they cater too will be unable to shop there!
Btw two of the Garbageville stores are either new or just remodeled.
Fixed asset write-offs and lease cancellations
This is nothing, and frankly given Targets support for LBGTQ+ BS, Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate organisation.
CVS is closing 900 stores, nationwide by the end of 2024.
Get out, da Cities, been sayin it,…ain’tIbeen sayin it, for 4 years now, at least.
Do NOT focus on the illusion of “Red States”; its Rural vs Urban, in EVERY State. Urban will get you killed, Rural you at least stand a chance.
“Bugging out” is a basic principle of “prepping” and nobody EVER makes plans to “bug out ” TO a metro city: all thinking is on getting out of a metro city “if SHTF”.
Well, by Nov. 2024, the stuff WILL hit the fan, so you have a firmer date and with more notice than any hurricane, tornado, tsunami or even meltdown.
Get out now, or if your lucky be a refugee, after.
It’s too late for most people to get out with high interest rates. People cannot afford to move and buy another house because they cannot afford the interest rates and the added payments of insurance, etc..
All by design. Daily I pray for the return of Jesus…
I’m sure that Soros is only too happy to purchase urban dwellings with cash and a ten-day close. Then the seller can plop his new windfall into a new place in a more affordable, rural neighborhood.
I thought that’s part of reparations for slavery. Any black can go into any store and pillage, loot, and plunder and destroy whatever they want. That’s how depraved and culpable this culture has become. And I want no part of it.
And none of the Dem Voters in these cities will even notice>>> unless the store happens to be the one they shop at in their own neighborhood.
They will not wake up until it smacks them right in their own face.
They never see it coming.
Soooo frustrating.
Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile looters targeting the Apple Store, Lululemon, Footlocker and others
Philadelphia police responded to reports of widespread looting on Tuesday night
They will still vote for the doomacrats. They can’t help themselves.
Yep, Michael. they are stupid 😡🤬.
Ignorance can be fixed by facts, experience and knowledge. Stupidity cannot be fixed by anything, because the stupid refuse to use their own brains to check out facts and knowledge. And they refuse to let their experience in blue s***hole states teach them about reality 😡🤬. Stupid puppets 😡🤬.
I live in Jacksonville, Florida. It is no longer the nice, quiet place it used to be 💖😢. The stupid who ran here from their blue state s***holes during the scamdemic have ruined Jacksonville. And they elected a demonrat, Donna Deegan, as our new mayor. The stupid demonrats have turned Jacksonville into a s***hole 😡🤬. And Donna Deegan will screw it up even more 😡🤬.
Ditch the emojis–it’s a distraction from your content.
Going to get worse for woke trans target for many reasons.
Target is transistioning it seems.
I don’t shop at target where I live and so it doesn’t matter they are closing stores.
I hope the stores go out of business because of their pushing trans stuff on children.🏀
Cancel This Company
There are lists of Good and Bad. There are choices available.
http://www.cancelthiscompany.com
At least Target is being honest about the reasons for these latest closings.
In the past, they’ve closed stores in the same and other Dem cities but always “sugar coated” the reasons for doing so. ie.
article from March 14, 2023:
https://www.businessinsider.com/target-store-closings-list-2023
Gee what do all these locations have in common? The old elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.
Darn it. Now the crooks will have to steal the cheap chiney crap from some other woke establishment.
I quit going to target when they took Christ out of Christmas.
Remember when Target went crazy & the Target Foundation announced a commitment of $100 million through 2025 in support of efforts to advance racial equity and drive economic prosperity in Black communities across the United States.“
I see they got their money’s worth.
No greater Light had ever been poured out onto two civilizations than on Christendom and Protestant America. But the sons of Cain preferred darkness to Light and together with their followers declared the death of Jesus Christ in their hearts Utopia, they triumphantly declared, is where sin is not and men are free to actualize themselves (unite evil Mr Hyde with Dr Jekyl). Now, as lawlessness and violent crimes of every kind overspread and destroy our cities, our Lord speaks to us loud and clear, saying, “Now do you see the sinfulness of men?!”
Stopped Target the same year we ditched tv, Campbells, the NFL, Walmart, McDonald’s, Kellogs CVS and a bunch more. 2015. Oh, Whole Foods too.
Just wrote BK although the last time we went there was 2014. It was terrible.
Things are definitely not going to be the same.
First there were food deserts now we have retail deserts. Part of the continuing LBJ policies.
I can’t believe that there actually people out there that make excuses for this insane behavior. You can’t sustain a place if people can not comfortably open a business and not worry about it being pilfered.
Small consolation to see WOKE going BROKE! Crap Weasels
I’m counting on the fact that 2024 is going to be chaotic and wild. I only have two family groups left in all my extended family that are “too close”, in my opinion, to high crime areas. Everyone else has moved. My rule of thumb is you need to be more than a gas tank full away, and that varies depending upon vehicle gas/mileage capacity. My second rule of thumb is you need to be carrying protection. My third rule is to be stocked up at home with beans, bullets, and bandaids.
Not to say I live in fear. I do not because I am in a relatively safe location off the beaten path, far away from crime centers. I have layers of security so that I sleep well at night. I’ve been harping on this for almost 10 years as I watched lawless increase and justice decrease. This is not the country I grew up in where children could safely walk home from a public school where prayer and honoring our flag was common place. It’s sad and I blame every single worthless politician and every single brain dead Liberal.
Just sayin’.
Government expanding to stores because there aren’t enough ways to hand out taxpayer money/sarc.
You will still see robberies, thieves stealing the free stuff that people walk out with because they are too lazy to pick out the stuff themselves.
A rational person would think that the democrats (nihilist communists) would not continue to win at the ballot box but in five recent nationwide special elections they won every contest. You get what you vote and, moreover, get what you tolerate.
Last night, in Philadelphia, the savages went on a citywide looting spree to protest a judge’s finding that a police shooting of another savage was justified. Buckle up.
It’s easy for Dums to steal special elections.
I love it! Get worse, quickly!
I believe John Derbyshire was early on to this in his Taki’s Magazine article dated April 05, 2012 titled ‘The Talk: Nonblack Version’, a reference to what supposedly black parents (sic) have with their children regarding police. His ‘Talk’ is a warning to his white children. He was subsequently denounced and fired for his article. Twitter videos have documented, daily, that he is still right.
Here’s just a sampling:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally. (10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods. (10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date. (10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks. (10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks quickly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/
This was basic common sense until the last 20 years or so. And Derb’s kids are half Chinese.
Soon shoppers in blue cities will be shopping at Goodwill only.
And they will have to get PO boxes to receive parcels to ward off porch pirates.
And they will have to be armed to prevent being robbed and raped.
Screw ’em. They voted to let the inmates out of the jails.
Target is Woke until it affects there bottom line. Hope they continue to close stores and go broke
Me too!! F them!
Sage advice that should be followed by everyone in this day and age of the lawless segments of our society regardless of one’s skin tone. Situational awareness matters to yourself and your loved ones.
The common denominator of the “lawless” segments of society is poverty. One parent households. Neglect. Addiction. Many of these children join gangs to find a “family” and survive on the streets.
Guess who was changing all that poverty and addiction? One very stable genius, President Donald John Trump, that’s who.
Without these roving gangs of poverty stricken, social justice warriors to exploit, the Democrat party is toast, and they know it.
The best way out of poverty in America:
1) Finish high school
2) Don’t have a child out of marriage
Statistically valid. Falling on deaf ears for a generation now.
Learn a TRADE! The most educated in the World are the ones who fell in line quickest during the Mass Psychosis of Covid, Stalin, Hitler, and on and on. Those in the “Trades”, far less likely. They are “closer to Nature”, and Common Sense.
You forgot Tom Sowell’s other two items:
3) Stay off drugs;
4) Take a job, any job.
Judith,
while poverty IS an issue, it’s not THE reason for this lawlessness. There are many, many poor people and they do not act this way. They don’t steal because they know it’s wrong. Perpetuating this false information doesn’t help.
As Oki Dopey points out, the best way to break the poverty cycle is, finish high school and don’t have a child out of wedlock. But the other big key is get married and Stay married. You do these 3 things and you’re setting up you family and children for success.
Then, live below your means and save. The loss of religion isn’t helping either.
Do not blame thuggery on poverty.
It’s basic safety and survival. I think this is why our brains develop stereotypes. They are survival tools. Predators of course will try to convince you that your stereotypes are “bad” when in reality they make perfect sense.
What was it that Scott Adams said just recently? Sounds like there people are catching on.
They’re going to resell those phones. I understand there are organized crime groups behind these lootings and thefts. It may look random and chaotic–but it’s not. That’s really what “Defund the Police” meant.
Yes. And Defund the Police also means to replace the police with ruthless gangs as presumed keepers of the peace.
Can anyone now doubt that Biden is the worst president in our history? Lord, no one even comes close to this wrecking ball of destruction. His presidency can never be forgotten, and his aiders and abettors must be despised for all time. Preserving the memory of these years, even in the absence of proper political redress through election victories, may be the only significant victory we need attain because it will be enough to safeguard constitutional rule and the pursuit of happiness in the United States.
Warroom opened this morning with more footage of the flash mobs robbing Apple. The looters were smashing up the phones and tablets they just stole and posting videos of themselves- laughing like hyenas and dancing around. They also hit liquor stores and Lululemon. They’re nothing but a pack of destructive animals.
That don’t mean shit
wait til patriots are doing the same
aint seen nothing yet
i would think that apple will brick all the electronics so they will be useless
All those phones are identifiable. They will not be useful.
Good luck activating a stolen phone. But the point is to take money from a gullible fool who thinks he’s getting a deal on a new iPhone 15 for $100. He can ask for his money back – if he can find the seller – or he can file a complaint with the police. Oh wait! Nevermind.
My Dad never lied to me. He was born in 1901.
I was always tender hearted towards the downtrodden, then I found out I was the one. My frame of reference changed drastically.
I have gotten rotten looks from people when I’ve said that I watch my local morning newscast just to see just how many blmattered. overnight in my former hometown of Philadelphia. I guess all the illegal activity we are witnessing could be their interpretation of reparations.
Sounds quite bigoted to me, as the target of his disdain.
I think (KNOW?) this kind of attitude/behavior has been prevalent for decades among a lot (the MAJORITY?) of white Americans.
It explains why, when I go to black events, etc., a LOT of people immediately come up to me and say>> “Welcome!”
Sometimes they even say “Welcome! So glad to see you. White people never come here!”.
We’re talking, dances at college put on by the Black Student Union, Churches, Black History Museums in black neighborhoods, etc. etc. etc.
Same thing happens on Indian Reservations around the U.S.
Been going on since as long as I can remember. White people are just finally saying it out loud.
These whites are just segregating themselves and have been for decades. They have an unhealthy fear of the “unknown”. Cowards, you could say.
Thank you to my father who had a curiosity about all things and was taking us kids to every neighborhood to participate in life from the time we were knee high to a grasshopper.
I may have a lot of problems with him, but that’s one thing, one BIG thing, that he got right.
Sorry but when you see the “Hate Whitey” mindset prevalent in our country pushed by this “administration” what do you expect. Rather be labeled a coward than dead.
Okay, go walk down the street alone on the south side of Chicago in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the evening and see how welcome you’ll be. Your wallet and your cell phone will be welcomed and liberated.
“the talk” forgot about the one about being a decent human
Interesting Talk. Derbyshire was pragmatic and practical in his approach to the subject.
Gosh. Even Pride merch and unisex potties did not save them.
And Satanist clothing for children.
“Pagan Pride” killed it off.
God will not be mocked.
You are spot on! I had forgotten all about PRIDE month b/c I had avoided all the places that featured that improbable commemoration and have gotten used to not going there in the meantime! Another point, Tar-jay is based in Minnesota, which is where all this recent nonsense got its start several yrs ago.
And opening up the Womens Restroom to any male perv who felt like sauntering in.