District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor neighborhoods

Washington Post ^ | January 15, 2016 | Aaron C. Davis and Sarah Halzack

[ridesthemiles]

You can put lipstick on a pig..............

[TomGuy]

"... building stores ... in poorest neighborhoods ..."

Maybe the CEO of Walmart called the CEO of CVS for a chat. [Recall what happened to the NEW CVS store that opened in Baltimore not long before the riots there.]

Just weeks before that riot, officials were touting their success at bringing new businesses into that poor neighborhood.

[rockinqsranch]

I was raised by Liberals. I can tell you stories you wouldn’t believe about the insanity that is Liberalism.

It is most definitely a mental condition. Apparently harmless to them as they seem to survive themselves in spite of the harm they do to everyone else.

[pepsionice]

Go look up the stripper club deal that the city council funded as some sports complex for kids....which flipped over to some drug thug and made into a stripper joint. Was around 2009-2011 period. Money funneled out of the city council to foundation for kid sports, then funneled to contractors, and the thug ended up with the keys to the place. News folks woke up in 2013 and found out the story.

[dfwgator]

Comrade Bernie will take care of that with Government-Run stores.

[A_perfect_lady]

Not to mention that in SOME neighborhoods, theft, rioting, and flashmobs are an increasing issue, and the work ethic of the overall pool of candidates for jobs is... uninspiring.

[Olog-hai]

They bash themselves, and us. Especially via their support of communism via retailing all that stuff from Red China (who likes them so much they let them do this.) The Walton/Walmart PAC keeps many RINOs afloat too.

[Moonman62]

The government is in the business of cultivating zones of high crime. I can’t blame anybody for not wanting to do business there.

[Chode]

District 9

[trebb]

You can put lipstick on a pig..............but don't, for God's sake, kiss it!

[GOPJ]

My guess is one of the criteria on store selection for closing would be those that could be prone to rioting and looting and probably already suffering inventory slippage and unionization efforts.

The black community needs to get their act together... the reason stores avoid 'the community' is based on how they act - NOT the color of their skin.

[Paul R.]

If those stores were always full of people, other stores should come in quickly. In my area, 3 former Wal-Mart’s moved (to new Super Wal-Mart locations.) 2 of the old buildings promptly became Rural Kings, the other became a Big Lots store. (All have multiple grocery aisles, tho’ of course they are not primarily grocery stores.) Still, if the Wal-Mart’s had just closed, it’s a pretty good bet one or 2 of those buildings would now be grocery stores.

[Paul R.]

Comments at the Compost are running about 30/1 realist.

I noticed that too! Maybe after 7 years of Obummer, not to mention a lost generation of liberalism, at least a few more people are waking up?