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‘It’s game over’: Nike permanently shutters beloved Portland store after ‘rapid escalation in retail theft’ — how a national crime spike is costing US retailers $100B
AP Moneywise via Yahoo ^ | September 14, 2023 | Bethan Moorcraft

Posted on 09/14/2023 12:10:22 PM PDT by grundle

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To: grundle

Costing retailers $100 bill ?
No, it’s $150 billion that will be passed down to consumers ( the ones who actually pay when shopping).


21 posted on 09/14/2023 12:26:02 PM PDT by daku
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To: grundle

Speaking to Wall Street analysts, Nike’s new CEO, John Donahoe, said, “Nike is a brand that is of China and for China.”

‘Nuff said!


22 posted on 09/14/2023 12:28:39 PM PDT by old school
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To: grundle

Just do it, Nike. That was their slogan, reputedly inspired by Gary Gilmore’s last words before he got executed. It fits.


23 posted on 09/14/2023 12:32:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: JoSixChip
National crime spike? More like democrat control of the cities.

The crime spike is being perpetrated primarily by the subculture of young, violent inner city blacks taking advantage of neutered policing to let their inner criminal nature run wild, and to a lesser degree by drug-addled derelicts of all races stealing to support their drug habits. Democrats encourage and enable both groups and their criminality.

Just in the last 24 hours in my subdivision, we had a young white guy who looked like a drug-crazed weirdo try to use his car to run over about 20 kids at the neighborhood park, and also had a gang shooting right across the street from it. And this is not “the hood” (or at least didn’t used to be). Prior to all of the insanity perpetrated in the name of George Floyd, the patron saint of criminals, our neighborhood was a nice normal middle-class area. Since then, we have had continuously increasing criminal activity, including constant car and even home break-ins and frequent gunfire at night. When I called the police one night to report yet another incident of gunshots heard nearby, I spoke with an officer who sounded personally exasperated with the whole thing and told me that gangs had been migrating farther and farther south (out of the predominantly inner city black neighborhoods) and into areas they had rarely been seen in before. This is obviously occurring because after the “defund the police” insanity, they realized that no one was going to stop them so now it was open season on “whitey.” It’s happening everywhere.

They’re going to push people very soon to the point of giving up on the non-functioning “criminal justice” system and just taking things into their own hands. Of course, that’s the whole point, I believe, behind this. They want to push us so far that we have no choice but to lash out, and then they spring their totalitarian trap. But it’s a real “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.

24 posted on 09/14/2023 12:37:09 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: grundle

Butt, butt, butt....ain’t nyekee all woke and stuff?


25 posted on 09/14/2023 12:38:59 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: BigFreakinToad

“””Why are the libs at Nike doing this? Shouldn’t they be at the door handing out shoes??”””

They are choosing corporate profits over compassion and serving the community.

Maybe the left will boycott them.


26 posted on 09/14/2023 12:40:23 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: grundle

Nike is part of the problem. It’s good to see them suffering. Nike is on my sh*t list and has been for years.


27 posted on 09/14/2023 12:40:40 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: rktman

Need to qualify the 10 billion loss,,,,IN LIBERAL CITIES


28 posted on 09/14/2023 12:41:21 PM PDT by bboise
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To: rdl6989
> Portland voted for this. <

And so did oh-so-woke Nike.


29 posted on 09/14/2023 12:46:11 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: grundle

That’s Racist closing the store that is in the middle of 4% of the population.


30 posted on 09/14/2023 12:46:33 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Starboard
He already is. Or was.

Coincidence?

31 posted on 09/14/2023 12:46:57 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bray

A sneaker desert.


32 posted on 09/14/2023 12:49:43 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: grundle

Get Woke.

Go Broke.


33 posted on 09/14/2023 12:52:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ansel12

as well they should, capitalist pigs.


34 posted on 09/14/2023 12:53:14 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: gundog

Oh my goodness

Bud Light Transgender Boy for Nike?

MORE popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿


35 posted on 09/14/2023 12:55:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BigFreakinToad

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!


36 posted on 09/14/2023 12:57:01 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SaveFerris

“They’re real...and they’re miniscule.”


37 posted on 09/14/2023 12:59:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: grundle

Nike is a corrupt company that uses forced Chinese labor to make their products. Eff both Portland and Nike.


38 posted on 09/14/2023 1:02:00 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: grundle

Democrat Nirvana


39 posted on 09/14/2023 1:13:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: gundog

“It’s a dude and he’s reprobate”

😃😀😄


40 posted on 09/14/2023 1:14:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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