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Chicago to become the next Portland?

Posted by $ Radio_Randy 1 year, 1 month ago to Economics
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Walmart is now pulling four of it's stores in Chicago...oh, God, where WILL it end!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Anyway, due to record losses (and the fact that Walmart's Chicago locations have NEVER made a profit), the chain has decided to close half of it's locations in the windy city.

While the announcement mentions financial losses, it avoided the suggestion of theft, like was mentioned in the Portland closings.

Already, local leaders are calling for some sort of action to get Walmart to stay...even resorting to "peaceful" protests, hah, hah!

How long will it be until we start hearing rumors of a "Directive 10-289" to stem the "bleeding out" of retail outlets, from major cities?

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  • Posted by Running4mylife 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    He is using the typical gas lighting script to guilt the victims by making them believe it's their fault for not providing enough "activities, programs, education, etc." to entertain these parasites so therefore, they loot, burn, riot and misbehave because "Society" failed them. I have an answer to that: strap up, and be ready because the next summer of love is on it's way.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    Me too, except now the shooter that sent the thugs to the cemetery is now sentenced to jail for 6 life terms for doing it.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year ago
    Maybe the government will have to take over the businesses to keep the lights on all the empty shelves.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    Did he actually mean they didn't have enough resources to loot because the resources are closing or leaving or have been burnt?
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  • Posted by Running4mylife 1 year ago
    Rioting on Michigan Avenue near Navy Pier last night, jumping on cars, CTA buses, and then massive rioting in the loop at Randolph and State Streets, under the Marshall Fields clock, and of course, shooting each other, and the new Mayor says it's because the young people don't have enough "resources". Uh huh. Oh it's going to burn all right.
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  • Posted by mshupe 1 year, 1 month ago
    I think we've been hearing versions of Directive 10-289 since March 2020. The decline of cities may be the greatest siren call of our lifetime. Isabel Paterson did a great job with this idea in God of the Machine.
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  • Posted by term2 1 year, 1 month ago
    Directive 10-289 is definitely on the roster to prevent ruthless capitalists from preventing the inevitable bleeding that will come from leftist programs.
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 year, 1 month ago
    Probably not too long. With CA continuing to tax after ex-residents move to get away from taxes, it has to be expected. The people in power think they have the control - and when economics rears its ugly head they think they can enact an "rule" - not pass a law - to keep it from happening.....
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 1 month ago
    Hopefully it ends with the major metropolis' becoming "Escape from New York". Wall them up, and let them wallow in their own institutionalized disaster.
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  • Posted by starguy 1 year, 1 month ago
    Directive 10-289?
    But, that was from a 1957 novel, a work of fiction! That can't be something actually taking place, here in 2023... or, can it?
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  • Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 1 month ago
    Chicago adds a whole bunch of violence to the mix as well as the labor union mafia. I'm surprised Walmart waited this long to be honest...
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  • Posted by TheOldMan 1 year, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Should have been "Fortunately many shots were fired and the half dozen armed thugs escaped in multiple hearses."
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 1 year, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You must have seen that story on the Rolex store, in CA. Fortunately, no shots were fired, but the half dozen armed thugs escaped in multiple vehicles.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 1 year, 1 month ago
    And with the idiot new mayor it is NOT going to get better. I can see it now: social worker sent to provide therapy for an armed thief that stole 10K of product from a chain jewelry store. The social worker is expected to survive the bullet wounds. The thief escaped." The chain jewelry store closed the store permanently.
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