Kroger closing grocery stores in Washington state due to blue state crime and filth

[Stryder50]

No, but they should have known better than build in high-crime democrat areas.

Many of these areas weren't "high crime Democrat areas" when the stores were first built there.
Demographics have changed over time due to numerous factors.

 

[Stryder50]

Thank you for this WONDERFUL news!!!!

Kroger is just as EVIL, CORRUPT, ANTI-employee, and ANTI-customer as Hellmart and Crackhead Barrel.

Hope they collapse into a burning pile of toxic waste.

Due to the useless, non-productive, waste of skin, anti-social, bottom dreg, scum you present as, we are hoping your burning pile of toxic waste will consume soon and spare the planet of any more refuse such as you.

 

[Stryder50]

Very sad that people will be losing their jobs, and food deserts will be created, because Democrats refuse to clean up their disgusting cities.

Kroger to Close Fred Meyer Stores in Kent and Everett Over Theft, ‘Challenging Regulatory Environment’​

Kroger to Close Fred Meyer Stores in Kent and Everett Over Theft, ‘Challenging Regulatory Environment’

Kroger, the parent company of Fred Meyer, announced Monday it will close two Puget Sound locations this fall as part of a broader cost-cutting strategy following the collapse of its proposed merger with Albertsons. The company said

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Kroger, the parent company of Fred Meyer, announced Monday it will close two Puget Sound locations this fall as part of a broader cost-cutting strategy following the collapse of its proposed merger with Albertsons.

The company said its Fred Meyer stores in Everett (8530 Evergreen Way) and Kent (10201 S.E. 240th St.) will shut down in mid-October. Both closures were confirmed by the union representing affected workers.

“Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable,” a Fred Meyer spokesperson told The Seattle Times.

The decision comes as Cincinnati-based Kroger works to shutter underperforming stores nationwide. The company, which operates 59 Fred Meyer and 55 QFC locations in Washington, announced in June that it plans to close 60 stores across the U.S. over the next 18 months.

To the many ignorant and unintelligent posters here, Fred Meyer poses as a "One Stop Shopping Experience".

Along with a full range of grocery~deli~meat/fish~dairy~etc. food supplies, they also offer a large line of clothing and shoes, recreation equipment, toys, stationary, magazines and books, automotive supplies, home furnishings, decor and paint, yard tools and garden supplies, pharmacy and OTC, electronics, jewelry, and other consumer needs/goods.

I've lived in the areas of these two stores and what they are experiencing is a classic demographic of Leftist social botching.

As real estate values skyrocketed during the past few decades, residents of former low-rent/low value neighborhoods of South Seattle have seen their rents and living costs skyrocket and therefore been squeezed out and into lower cost living facilities South of the city. They have poured out of the Central District, Rainer Valley, etc. and into Renton, Kent, White Center, etc. driving up real estate values/prices there and also increasing the cost of rent.

Put bluntly, the ghetto of South Seattle has moved southward into the suburban parts of King County, bring the crime and social lethargy with them, as real estate values and prices within Seattle have skyrocketed. Former urban ghettos are nor suburban ghettos.

The issue for Kroger isn't just the crime within their stores, but also the public/civic danger and harassment outside their stores in the parking lots and near-by neighborhoods. Social scum and dregs have little concern or regard for the negative impact they bring with their socially diseased selves to the neighborhoods they migrate into.

A problem not unique to Seattle, but seen across this nation in many urban/suburban centers.
A disease that will be hard to eradicate.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Due to the useless, non-productive, waste of skin, anti-social, bottom dreg, scum you present as, we are hoping your burning pile of toxic waste will consume soon and spare the planet of any more refuse such as you.

Awwww, your Democrat projecting is noted and placed in File 13.

 

[Dragonlady]

From the link:

“Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable,”

Dragonbreath gets it wrong again.

One mention in a long article about how the refusal of regulators to approve the merger, which is citied multiple times as the reason for store closings.

And even that paragraph stresses the “regulatory environment” as adding significant costs.

I didn’t get it wrong at all. You’re putting emphasis on theft where the actual emphasis of the piece is on financial and regulatory problems.

 

[JWBooth]

Kroger has argued that closures allow the company to reinvest savings into stronger-performing stores. Still, critics say the loss of neighborhood groceries highlights broader issues of retail theft, rising costs, and state regulatory hurdles.

Hmm, Albertsons doesn't plan on closing any stores and plans to open up where Krogers is closing....

Kroger, it seems, doesn't need the tax write offs.

 

[JWBooth]

Its ok. MAGA. Country just has dollar stores.

Since you claim to live in Texas I guess those HEBs on every corner don't count?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Since you claim to live in Texas I guess those HEBs on every corner don't count?

In the metros and suburbs yes. Not in the country. At best you get Brooks Brothers.

 

[JWBooth]

In the metros and suburbs yes. Not in the country. At best you get Brooks Brothers.

Brookshire Brothers, nothing wrong with small, regional chains.
Hell, even little Center, Texas, deeeeeeep behind the pine curtain, has an HEB. Nearest place with a suburb is Tyler, a hundred miles away.

 

[otto105]

Many of these areas weren't "high crime Democrat areas" when the stores were first built there.
Demographics have changed over time due to numerous factors.

Like meth use in the whole rural state of West Virginia.

 

[JWBooth]

Like meth use in the whole rural state of West Virginia.

Which has zilch point shit to do with closing stores in declining Seattle suburbs. Fucktard

 

[marvin martian]

The article about the Washington stores didn't say they were closing due to theft either. They said they were closing because Trump didn't approve their merger with another grocer.

Why do you lie when a two second search of the article refutes your bullshit?

Do you have a public humiliation fetish or something?

“Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable,” a Fred Meyer spokesperson told The Seattle Times.

 

[Leo123]

One mention in a long article about how the refusal of regulators to approve the merger, which is citied multiple times as the reason for store closings.

And even that paragraph stresses the “regulatory environment” as adding significant costs.

I didn’t get it wrong at all. You’re putting emphasis on theft where the actual emphasis of the piece is on financial and regulatory problems.

Theft is the reason because, unlike regulation theft cannot be predicted which is probably the reason for the merger not being approved.