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When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« on: July 07, 2021, 01:27:32 pm »
When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse

We've gone down this path before for virtually the exact same bleeding-heart reasons, and we lived through the tremendous pain of the results.

By Christopher Bedford
JULY 7, 2021

Six Target stores in San Francisco are adjusting their times, opening hours later and closing hours earlier to try to curtail soaring theft.

They join Walgreens, which has closed 17 stores over five years in direct response to criminal activity. Last month, a video went viral of a hooded and masked man riding his bike into a San Francisco branch of the chain, loading a trash bag with merchandise, and riding back out — past a powerless security guard and two others filming on their phones.

Early Monday evening, at least nine men and women smashed cases and stripped shelves in San Francisco’s high-end Neiman Marcus store, fleeing with a fortune in designer handbags. The brazenness is out of control, is goaded on by the normalization of masks, and it’s all directly enabled by district attorneys and other politicians.

The Golden City is joined by nearby Sacramento and Los Angeles, where retail crime has spiked, but across the country as district attorneys from Massachusetts to Missouri to Texas have declared they won’t defend citizens from theft, the story has gone much the same.

While it’s insane that crime is so severe and law enforcement so nonexistent in a wealthy city that businesses must close their doors early or shut them entirely, there’s more in store. Far more ominous than a sign of how bad things have gotten, darkened windows and shuttered doors reveal just how much worse things are going to get.

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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2021, 02:12:54 pm »
A Federal Judge should force them be open the hours their 'shoppers' are used to.
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2021, 02:45:36 pm »
Quote from: rustynail on July 07, 2021, 02:12:54 pm
A Federal Judge should force them be open the hours their 'shoppers' are used to.

Such an act would not surprise me.
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2021, 03:26:03 pm »
Why is society, or at least some in society, determined to accommodate the criminal and the feral?

At what point are these communities held responsible for their  behaviors?
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2021, 03:38:10 pm »
Why would any chain store keep re-opening in high crime zip codes?  Why pay the insurance premiums because of actuary tables that make them prohibitive?

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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2021, 03:57:06 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on July 07, 2021, 03:38:10 pm
Why would any chain store keep re-opening in high crime zip codes?  Why pay the insurance premiums because of actuary tables that make them prohibitive?

They're "woke," on the way to becoming "broke."
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2021, 06:09:35 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on July 07, 2021, 03:38:10 pm
Why would any chain store keep re-opening in high crime zip codes?  Why pay the insurance premiums because of actuary tables that make them prohibitive?
Criminals are adaptable and resourceful, close the stores in the high crime areas and they will set up carpools to take their shopping to new and better neighborhoods. And the best part for the chain stores is that they will never actually lose money in the end, they will simply recoup it by charging higher prices to everyone else.
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2021, 06:20:20 pm »
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Seems like a "well, DUH" moment.
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2021, 06:36:26 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on July 07, 2021, 06:09:35 pm
Criminals are adaptable and resourceful, close the stores in the high crime areas and they will set up carpools to take their shopping to new and better neighborhoods. And the best part for the chain stores is that they will never actually lose money in the end, they will simply recoup it by charging higher prices to everyone else.

Absolutely, although I was coming from the notion that since the "Hands up - Don't Shoot" baloney, inner city retail outlets are conducting business while a lit fuse burns.

'Exhibit A' is the national CVS drugstore chain on North Street, downtown Baltimore.

Even electronic gates can't keep the feral MFers. away.  Who would even want to work in that environment?
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2021, 10:21:27 pm »
rusty opined:
"A Federal Judge should force them be open the hours their 'shoppers' are used to."

I posted before in a similar topic:
Time for "Directive 10-289" ...
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Re: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse
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