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Black Lives Matter protesters pushed their way into a Seattle Trader Joe's demanding the company give "15 percent at least." The group has repeated the tactic of harassing the store's staff and customers over the past few months.
A video tweeted Thursday night shows a large group of BLM activists entering a Seattle Trader Joe's store. They chanted and beat drums as they marched through the grocery chain location.
Seattle has five Trader Joe's locations, and Breitbart reports that three of them have been hit in this way. It shows that Trader Joe's, which resisted the demands, remains a target, based on Seattle's failure to send police to protect them.
No business of any kind can run a business with this kind of shakedown activity going on. The company is being held hostage to pirates, while the city stands by and does nothing.
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In Seattle, Trader Joe's has in fact resisted on related matters, and not just in the package labeling. According to the Seattle Spectator, the company has been hit by march-in protests in early October over its refusal to permit employees to wear BLM gear on the job, plus boycotts to boot. The Trader Joe's near the CHOP zone this past summer did shut its doors indefinitely, not just because of the chaos and disorder of CHOP, but also because of the wokesterism of many employees. Who'd want to do business with those kinds of employees in permanent opposition? They relented when 22,000 customers signed a petition asking them to stay.
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Seattle is getting pretty comparable to Venezuela without police to enforce rule of law, but Trader Joe's is no battered Venezuelan storefront shop. It's a huge national private corporation whose structure protects it from activist shareholders stirring up the pot and calling for woke acts, and it has always put the interests of its customers first. Instead of pay the danegeld, it's in a position to walk out.
It's shown backbone in standing up to rioters, and who knows how many shakedowns it has fended off. But if it gets bad — and Breitbart notes that three stores in Seattle have been targeted — it may well decide that the cost of doing business outweighs the benefits and pull out of the city.
Unfuckingbelievable. So far as I know, this isn't going on in Portland or other cities. But I'm guessing it won't be long. That's called anarchy folks. This is exactly how mafia works. Either you pay us something - il “pizzo” it’s called in Italian - or we burn down the place at least. This can happen when the State is absent, that’s why defunding the police in crucial in every mafia system.
A video tweeted Thursday night shows a large group of BLM activists entering a Seattle Trader Joe's store. They chanted and beat drums as they marched through the grocery chain location.
Seattle has five Trader Joe's locations, and Breitbart reports that three of them have been hit in this way. It shows that Trader Joe's, which resisted the demands, remains a target, based on Seattle's failure to send police to protect them.
No business of any kind can run a business with this kind of shakedown activity going on. The company is being held hostage to pirates, while the city stands by and does nothing.
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.
In Seattle, Trader Joe's has in fact resisted on related matters, and not just in the package labeling. According to the Seattle Spectator, the company has been hit by march-in protests in early October over its refusal to permit employees to wear BLM gear on the job, plus boycotts to boot. The Trader Joe's near the CHOP zone this past summer did shut its doors indefinitely, not just because of the chaos and disorder of CHOP, but also because of the wokesterism of many employees. Who'd want to do business with those kinds of employees in permanent opposition? They relented when 22,000 customers signed a petition asking them to stay.
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.
Seattle is getting pretty comparable to Venezuela without police to enforce rule of law, but Trader Joe's is no battered Venezuelan storefront shop. It's a huge national private corporation whose structure protects it from activist shareholders stirring up the pot and calling for woke acts, and it has always put the interests of its customers first. Instead of pay the danegeld, it's in a position to walk out.
It's shown backbone in standing up to rioters, and who knows how many shakedowns it has fended off. But if it gets bad — and Breitbart notes that three stores in Seattle have been targeted — it may well decide that the cost of doing business outweighs the benefits and pull out of the city.
Coming soon, food desert: BLM shakes down Seattle Trader Joe's for a 15% cut
Grocery retailer Trader Joe's, which refused to cave in to political correctness in its product names, is experiencing new problems with Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle, according to Breitbart News: Black Lives Matter protester...
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Unfuckingbelievable. So far as I know, this isn't going on in Portland or other cities. But I'm guessing it won't be long. That's called anarchy folks. This is exactly how mafia works. Either you pay us something - il “pizzo” it’s called in Italian - or we burn down the place at least. This can happen when the State is absent, that’s why defunding the police in crucial in every mafia system.