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Target says it will close nine stores in major cities, citing violence and theft
CNBC ^ | 9/26/2023 | By Melissa Repko and Gabrielle Fonrouge

Posted on 09/26/2023 1:00:29 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

Target said Tuesday that it will close nine stores in major cities across the country, citing violence, theft and organized retail crime.

The company will close one store in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, two locations in Seattle, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area and three more in Portland, Oregon. The discounter said it will shutter the stores for good on Oct. 21.

“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in a news release.

“We know that our stores serve an important role in their communities, but we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all.”

Target, which has nearly 2,000 stores in the U.S., has been outspoken about organized retail crime at its stores. It has said theft has driven higher levels of shrink, an industry term used to describe losses from goods that were damaged, misplaced or stolen.

With its announcement Tuesday, Target also stands apart in its decision to both shutter stores and to explicitly blame that decision on retail crime.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crime; harlem; newyork; portland; sanfrancisco; seattle; stores; target; tedwheeler
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But wait, I thought these were just poor and desperate people who took to crime to feed their families? And doesn't Target have insurance?

Isn't that what leftists say about this?

The closures are: East Harlem, Oakland & San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.

1 posted on 09/26/2023 1:00:29 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

Too bad, so sad, your bad.


2 posted on 09/26/2023 1:01:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: NohSpinZone

Funny how the special race you choose to thrust in our faces in your ads would steal from you or loot you.


3 posted on 09/26/2023 1:03:17 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

+1


4 posted on 09/26/2023 1:06:02 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: BigFreakinToad
Aesop spoke of these millennia ago.


5 posted on 09/26/2023 1:06:05 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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I wonder why there are food deserts in certain areas? It’s almost as if there’s something everyone knows but can’t say.


6 posted on 09/26/2023 1:06:45 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: NohSpinZone

All America’s problems began in January, 2020. I repeat ALL of our problems began with the stolen election and the swearing in of a scumbag and his puppet master, Braaack Obama.


7 posted on 09/26/2023 1:06:46 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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They worked really hard to get that Target into Harlem. Sad that it’s closing - the thugs win again.


8 posted on 09/26/2023 1:07:03 PM PDT by livius
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To: NohSpinZone

8 seconds...................


9 posted on 09/26/2023 1:07:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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East Harlem, Oakland & San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.

Aren't these all places that professed love and support of the police?

10 posted on 09/26/2023 1:08:04 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: NohSpinZone

This was intended by the democrats. They have been wanting to destroy legitimate businesses - as proven by the 2020 riots that they organized and the free pass to steal they have been giving the street thugs.


11 posted on 09/26/2023 1:08:34 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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This looks racist to me. Target will only locate in communities with few blacks. Perhaps the ESG gods of Wall Street (BlackRock etc) will stop buying Target for their funds. This is how they punish corps that defy their ESG edicts.


12 posted on 09/26/2023 1:09:49 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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Crime is waaay down, a leftist told me so.

I wonder if the globalists WANT Trump to win? Maybe they figure it’s more accelerated chaos if he wins?


13 posted on 09/26/2023 1:09:54 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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All major corporations started this ball rolling downhill when they started embracing PC culture. Target first started by letting mentally ill male pedophiles into female bathrooms and then supported the politicians who voted in the new pro-theft laws.

If the CEOs and Boards of major corporations, especially the banks, were patriots they could have ganged together and told the politicians to not even entertain this madness, but they think they are the heirs to the World and are trying their best to destroy humanity and society as we know it.


14 posted on 09/26/2023 1:10:10 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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Is that very highly paid Executive Team at Target able to connect any dots at all? Do they have a CLUE about Cause & Effect?
These are the major brands donating to the Black Lives Matter movement
By Mercey Livingston
June 16, 2020

TARGET
Target announced a $10 million commitment in an effort to advance social justice through supporting partners like the National Urban League and the African American Leadership Forum. The brand also committed 10,000 hours of pro-bono consulting for small business in the Twin Cities that are black-owned or owned by people of color.

I wouldn't be surprised if they made a lot more major donations after June 2020, too.
15 posted on 09/26/2023 1:12:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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The Tranny’s of San Francisco-Oakland are deeply saddened.


16 posted on 09/26/2023 1:12:19 PM PDT by DAC21
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San Fran area? No way

Video
This is what Target in San Francisco looks like
https://rumble.com/v2jssvo-this-is-what-target-in-san-francisco-looks-like.html


17 posted on 09/26/2023 1:12:25 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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They should have never enticed thugs and thieves by putting tranny bikinis with built in junk tuckers at the entrance to their stores.
18 posted on 09/26/2023 1:13:56 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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My wife lived in Harlem and avoided the Target there. Not so much out of safety so much that the shelves were always bare (I wonder why).


19 posted on 09/26/2023 1:14:27 PM PDT by Clemenza
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LOL. Yep, all those places love and support their police so much they quadrupled their police budgets.


20 posted on 09/26/2023 1:14:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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