Texas points the finger at Portland for rampant store closings

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[DudleySmith]

People want more jobs and a stronger economy, they're going to have to enforce anti-trust laws and make small and medium sized businesses a lot more viable. Lots of empty storefronts here, in a supposedly 'booming' metroplex. Chain stores are sucking up a large chunk of the economy here.

 

[1srelluc]

People want more jobs and a stronger economy, they're going to have to enforce anti-trust laws and make small and medium sized businesses a lot more viable. Lots of empty storefronts here, in a supposedly 'booming' metroplex. Chain stores are sucking up a large chunk of the economy here.

Yep, there's a huge shopping/eatery area they located a mile out of town to avoid town taxes.

Every one of them is a chain (must be at least 40 different ones) and it's killed downtown businesses.....Unless it's a pub, weekend curio shop, or some such for the tourists. There's more "beer/wine joints" on main street than there was in the 50s and there were 12 of them back then.

Even the old Mom & Pop stores that are left are run by fuckin' foreigners now. They can hardly speak English and are shady as hell.

 

[candycorn]

Wal-Mart Closing 11 Stores in Texas

Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, more than half of them in the U.S. and another big chunk in its challenging Brazilian market.

www.valleycentral.com

Abbot should enforce the law.

 

[jotathought]

Wal-Mart Closing 11 Stores in Texas

Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, more than half of them in the U.S. and another big chunk in its challenging Brazilian market.

www.valleycentral.com

Abbot should enforce the law.

What's not being enforced? Walmart is closing stores because revenues aren't meeting expectations.

 

[candycorn]

What's not being enforced? Walmart is closing stores because revenues aren't meeting expectations.

You'd have to ask Abbott. Stores stay open when they are making money...they close when they are not.

He's the one making the allegation...

 

[Mac-7]

Wal-Mart Closing 11 Stores in Texas

Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, more than half of them in the U.S. and another big chunk in its challenging Brazilian market.

www.valleycentral.com

Abbot should enforce the law.

More than 95 percent of the stores set to be closed in the U.S. are within 10 miles of another Wal-Mart.

closing stores that are too close to another walmart makes sense

But thats not the case in Portland

Walmart is abandoning the whole city due to crime

Crime that comes from drug use and anti police lib city government

 

[candycorn]

More than 95 percent of the stores set to be closed in the U.S. are within 10 miles of another Wal-Mart.

closing stores that are too close to another walmart makes sense

But thats not the case in Portland

Walmart is abandoning the whole city due to crime

Crime that comes from drug use and anti police lib city government

Complete rubbish.

Here are the Wal Marts in Portland:

The scale is 2 miles...

Please point to the one not within 10 miles of another Wal Mart.

 

[Mac-7]

Complete rubbish.

Here are the Wal Marts in Portland:

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The scale is 2 miles...

Please point to the one not within 10 miles of another Wal Mart.

Do you have a link to your map?

Because its being reported differently

Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave

Walmart said the closures followed a “careful review of their overall performance.”

nypost.com

 

[candycorn]

Do you have a link to your map?

Because its being reported differently

Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave

Walmart said the closures followed a “careful review of their overall performance.”

nypost.com

Google maps...wal marts in portland.

Not that hard.

 

[Mac-7]

Google maps...wal marts in portland.

Not that hard.

And yet news reports contradict your map

This is from ABCNews

All Walmart stores in Portland to permanently close

The last two Walmart stores within Portland’s city limits will be closing later this month, the company announced.

www.13abc.com

 

[para bellum]

Complete rubbish.

Here are the Wal Marts in Portland:

View attachment 764115
The scale is 2 miles...

Please point to the one not within 10 miles of another Wal Mart.

That map is the greater Portland metro and then some. The 2 closest Walmarts to downtown Portland are the ones being closed. The nearest one will be in Vancouver, WA about 16 miles away from NW Portland.

For someone living in Portland, going to Walmart will be a half-day trip because traffic is a nightmare no matter what time you go.

Walmart is not the only retailer experiencing this, and commercial vacancies are at an all time high in downtown PDX. A lot of small retailers have closed because they just can't absorb the losses.

Portland nixes Nike’s request to hire city cops for its MLK store, offers future public safety blitz for the area

 

[Mac-7]

And yet news reports contradict your map

This is from ABCNews

All Walmart stores in Portland to permanently close

The last two Walmart stores within Portland’s city limits will be closing later this month, the company announced.

www.13abc.com

candycorn : You are laughing past the graveyard

All the walmarts in portland are closing due to stupid democrat policies

 

[Papageorgio]

Google maps...wal marts in portland.

Not that hard.

The Walmart next to I-5 near the Washington/ Oregon border is closing as well as the one on 82nd Ave, those are the last two Walmarts in the Portland city limits, the rest are in neighboring cities.

 

[jotathought]

You'd have to ask Abbott. Stores stay open when they are making money...they close when they are not.

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He's the one making the allegation...

He's the one making allegations about stores in Portland .. Oregon. It's this whole other state on the West coast with a liberal run urban area that's soft on crime.

 

[candycorn]

He's the one making allegations about stores in Portland .. Oregon. It's this whole other state on the West coast with a liberal run urban area that's soft on crime.

Yet amazingly in the supposedly "tough on crime" state of Texas...Wal Mart closed stores there too.

 

[jotathought]

Yet amazingly in the supposedly "tough on crime" state of Texas...Wal Mart closed stores there too.

You're trying to connect dots which don't apply.

 

[DudleySmith]

Yet amazingly in the supposedly "tough on crime" state of Texas...Wal Mart closed stores there too.

They closed one in my a while back, after some 10 years. They opened up two more, one on each side of town following the growth pattern here. Aldi's also came along and opened two stores within a few hundred feet of the Walmart stores. So did Lowe's on one end and Home Depot on the other, and it seems like a dozen or more fast food franchises around both. The local stores in our town main drag all died, looks like a ghost town. We got a vape shop and some sort of Asian restaurant, both in a long strip mall 80% empty; never see any cars or at best one a two in front of either, but they've stayed open for almost 10 years now .... Wonder why ....

 

[justoffal]

You're trying to connect dots which don't apply.

Everyone knows why the Portland stores are closing. As for the other closures across the country Walmart's mail order business has grown so quickly that it's actually beginning to rival Amazon. A few years back Amazon eclipsed Walmart as the world's biggest retailer. Soon thereafter however Walmart came storming back and retook that title by a wide margin now..... The job displacement is negligible because the new mail order warehouses employ as many people as the walk-in stores do with a much lower overhead. And no shoplifting whatsoever!

 

[Flash]

People want more jobs and a stronger economy, they're going to have to enforce anti-trust laws and make small and medium sized businesses a lot more viable. Lots of empty storefronts here, in a supposedly 'booming' metroplex. Chain stores are sucking up a large chunk of the economy here.

Malls closed downtown businesses.

Big box stores put many small business out of business.

Amazon with at home shopping is many brick and mortar store out of business.

Those things are the natural ebb and flow of retailing that adhere to the desites of the consumers.

Big difference between that and stores having to close up because they are getting rob every day because the Democrat leadership is too weak to stop crime.