"Gonna be a - Food. Desert."
Posted on 08/12/2023 2:05:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
Concerns are growing in Washington, D.C. about some major grocery stores being able to keep their doors open due to shoplifting.
During a news conference Friday, D.C. Councilman Trayon White said he spoke to the regional management of a popular Giant Food store on Alabama Avenue Southeast.
“We had the opportunity to meet with some of the leadership of this Giant,” White said. “Some of the regional leadership at this Giant, what we heard was disheartening. We learned that this Giant has lost over $500,000 in product loss, which is about 20% of the sales. We know it's tough times and we know the price of food has skyrocketed in the last three years. But we cannot afford to hurt ourselves by constantly taking it from the store. It means that everybody is going to be without a place to eat. And enough is enough.”
On Friday, White spoke out about the high rate of shoplifting at the Giant Food grocery store on Alabama Avenue Southeast.
“To date, this Giant has had at least 135 stops from people stealing from the store,” he said. “And they almost double that amount that didn't get stopped.”
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It’s just welfare.
I really like that term, “food desert.”
1st World problem.
White supremacy in action.
When a city councilman has to essentially beg his constituents to stop shoplifting.... He clearly has no leadership ability, and the city itself needs an entire overhaul.
When this grocery store closes its doors, this same councilman will be screaming "RACISM!"
“Clean up on reparations isle 3..Clean up on reparations isle 3..”
The left will blame corporate greed.
Black shoplifters have a civil right to steal, and shutting down the local shop-and-rob deprives them of that civil right.
Yep.
These business owners need to grow a spine and JUST CLOSE DOWN in the middle of the night without telling anyone. Just like Toyota did in SoCal a few years back. They just packed up the entire building over the weekend and relocated to Arizona I think. Boy did the politburo get upset and scream loudly and Toyota publicly told them FU
They’re afarid of being labeled racist. Stopping thieves is racist, etc.
everything Big Mike tried to do, all the business they coerced, all the donations they “secured” to all the “community groups” in the inner city and it has done nothing. Whole foods in DC is locked up tighter than Rikers, Walmart bailed, mom and pop places are disappearing all because they want to remove consequence from action.
It looks like the residents of DC have chosen starvation as the way to cure their lack of impulse control.
Starve out the ferals.
Starve out the ferals.
Give them cigarets. Cigarets curb the appetite. A good way to deal with the obesity problem
I’d blame Biden as this is a result of him policies. Him. The mayor. The city council. BLM/Antifa. Parents. Bammy. Oprah. Jesse. Al. Crumpton.
Shutting down stores doesn’t stop the shoplifting. The Pygmy cannibals just go hunting further out into the suburbs.
The best thing is to give them free abortions and condoms. Eventually the cannibals will turn on themselves when the white meat is gone. /spit
Newports?
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