Stores continue to close in Democrat led cities due to crime

[Dill]

(04-13-2023, 01:20 AM)basballguy Wrote: The examples keep coming in:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/business/walmart-chicago-stores-closing/index.html
Interestingly, WaPo in an opinion piece tries to claim this has nothing to do with crime...hence it being an opinion piece.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/12/walmart-s-chicago-store-closings-aren-t-about-crime-just-business/0b374266-d965-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html.  Bloomberg also claims it has nothing to do with crime but has no examples.  
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/business/san-francisco-whole-foods-closure/index.html
https://footwearnews.com/2023/business/retail/retail-crime-portland-retailers-stores-1203425503/

Here are a couple from last year we talked about on this forum
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/business-food/starbucks-store-closures/index.html (from last year)

Democrats don't really care about safety, they just like to virtue signal when it conveniences them.  (Now i don't really think this, I just wanted to sound like some of the other posters in this forum)  I just think they're shit leaders in these cities.

The "opinion" piece cites Walmart telling Bloomberg that the closings are not about crime. 

So Walmart provided no examples that the closings were not about crime?  

What would that look like--an "example" of a store closing, but NOT because of crime? 

It might look exactly like a store closing for lack of profitability, of which Chicago offers us four examples.

CNN article suggests a numbers based discrepancy between business' claimed loss via theft and actual losses. 

Dem "virtue signaling" has a long history, going back to the Freedom Riders who were beaten back in the '60s when it convenienced them to contest segregation with their bodies on the line. Conservatives pretty much stayed out of that fight--or backed the wrong side. Things are easier nowdays, of course, but you can still see them out there looking virtuous whenever civil rights issues arise with policing or foreign policy or whatever. And you can see who still backs the wrong side. 

All those links get me thinking that maybe youtube videos of organized shoplifting are not the best place to start in understanding why crime spikes in some communities and not others, and what causes stores to close. E.g., in the aforementioned instances of Chicago and San Francisco, competition from other business seems to have played a large role in close. 

And in the case of Chicago it seems city leaders worked hard to bring the stores in, against the advice of the "wokest" of the woke, who thought Walmart would hurt local business. Maybe not the best decision then, but I don't see how electing Republican leaders would have fixed that. Perhaps "stop and frisk" in the "right" areas of Chicago? Tougher penalties for crime coupled with open carry?