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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:22:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably all the bread people were stealing to survive. When I was 16 (in the 80s) I worked in a grocery store, beer was the most common item to be stolen, closely followed by steaks. People may have stolen other things, but either they were far better at not getting noticed or it didn't happen often. Inventory was on paper, so would have been easy to not notice small theft, but the beer was obvious to spot, if you missed somebody stealing steaks you were oblivious as well. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:22:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat poor Winco is going to get raped. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:23:06 AM EDT
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About 10 years ago I flew into PDX with my dad. We stopped at that WalMart for a few things. The area seemed fine then, at least in daylight. Amazing how fast it can all go bad when you don't enforce the law.
Within a year or so of that my wife and I were in downtown Oregon. I had only seen that level of homeless/crazy person out in daylight one other place, Los Angeles. It goes to show though, if you don't treat the cancer it will quickly spread. I thought Keep Austin Weird was an original thing but Portland had Keep Portland Weird all over the place. Shocking that staying weird leads to turning into a lefty shithole. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:23:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I avoid Portland as much as possible. As a normal person your greatest risk is getting jacked by the legal system. My worst fear is that someday I would have to defend myself or my wife in Portland. I would be in prison no matter the situation. And if I am attacked, the perp would most definitely walk. We are moving out of state this year. Even living in a suburb the risks from this double standard police/legal situation is intolerable. Thank God our adult kids moved their families out already. QFT... I feel the same way. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:23:41 AM EDT
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Not unexpected. Want to learn something about your city?
Get a map of your WalMarts and then overlay it on the crime map from your local PD. This also works with a map of public transit. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:25:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You'd think that; but living next to Dallas, I can say if the surrounding areas don't play by Portland/Dallas rules, they learn pretty quick to avoid those areas. Because there are consequences for being a shithead in the surrounding areas. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This, it just pushes the trolls out into surrounding areas.  You'd think that; but living next to Dallas, I can say if the surrounding areas don't play by Portland/Dallas rules, they learn pretty quick to avoid those areas. Because there are consequences for being a shithead in the surrounding areas. Years ago I went to Richardson for work, which is adjacent and just north of Dallas for those not familiar. The homeless and graffiti magically stopped at the Richardson city limits. Like literally one exit full of graffiti and homeless, then nothing. I commented to my coworker I don't know what the Richardson police are doing, but it is apparently working. No idea what it is like now. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:28:42 AM EDT
[#7]
But where will the homeless steal their tents from?
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:31:33 AM EDT
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Same thing happened to a Walmart here. Under performing is code for too much external and internal theft from the locals.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:46:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where will the people of Portland get their Chinese rubber dog shit now? You laugh about what Walmart sells but have no idea what this means to the local shoppers. They have lost access to groceries, prescription drugs, household cleaning supplies, pet supplies, baby supplies and all kinds of general merchandise. I have a place in small cities Texas and Walmart is the only big box store. We do have an H-E-B so groceries are covered and some other bigger stores are coming into town. Without them, losing Walmart would mean driving an hour to a bigger city for many things. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:50:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I shopped at a grocery store in San Diego that had carts like that. I parked out toward the back of the lot. I was not happy when the wheel locked up, still in store property, and I hadn’t reached my car yet. That was my introduction to those infernal contraptions. I wonder why my local small grocery store has not installed the shopping cart locks. I have noticed about half of their carts have disappeared. I have seen people pushing carts down the street. I don’t think they are bringing them back to the store. How much do the carts cost? $100, $200 each or is it more? |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 11:58:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder why my local small grocery store has not installed the shopping cart locks. I have noticed about half of their carts have disappeared. I have seen people pushing carts down the street. I don't think they are bringing them back to the store. How much do the carts cost? $100, $200 each or is it more? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I shopped at a grocery store in San Diego that had carts like that. I parked out toward the back of the lot. I was not happy when the wheel locked up, still in store property, and I hadn't reached my car yet. That was my introduction to those infernal contraptions. I wonder why my local small grocery store has not installed the shopping cart locks. I have noticed about half of their carts have disappeared. I have seen people pushing carts down the street. I don't think they are bringing them back to the store. How much do the carts cost? $100, $200 each or is it more? Shopping cart theft is rising everywhere, more homeless people and they all need some way to cart their shit around. Though I haven't seen the self-locking ones here in Phoenix/Scottsdale yet. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 12:21:52 PM EDT
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Big corporations like Walmart and Target campaigned for this bullshit.
They backed BLM. They put up with shoplifting. The communities did the same. Now they are reaping what they have sown. But like good little socialists they will fail to learn the lesson. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 12:24:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What is the real reason for the closings? 'It's a hollowed out shell': Portland business owners say they're fleeing crime-ridden Dem-led city en masse after it turned from the 'crown jewel of the West Coast' into criminal-run city DM Linky  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 12:24:58 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I wonder why my local small grocery store has not installed the shopping cart locks. I have noticed about half of their carts have disappeared. I have seen people pushing carts down the street. I don’t think they are bringing them back to the store. How much do the carts cost? $100, $200 each or is it more? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I shopped at a grocery store in San Diego that had carts like that. I parked out toward the back of the lot. I was not happy when the wheel locked up, still in store property, and I hadn’t reached my car yet. That was my introduction to those infernal contraptions. I wonder why my local small grocery store has not installed the shopping cart locks. I have noticed about half of their carts have disappeared. I have seen people pushing carts down the street. I don’t think they are bringing them back to the store. How much do the carts cost? $100, $200 each or is it more? 100 bucks? Fuck that, I buy em for 25 cents at Aldi's...  Yea they were something like 150 bucks when I worked at walmart a number of years ago. They keep them practically forever. They have refurbishment crews that come in, it was wild. They have grinders, replaced wheels, fixed warped carts, touch up paint them, it was wild. An assembly line of carts getting refurb'd |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 12:45:25 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You laugh about what Walmart sells but have no idea what this means to the local shoppers. They have lost access to groceries, prescription drugs, household cleaning supplies, pet supplies, baby supplies and all kinds of general merchandise. I have a place in small cities Texas and Walmart is the only big box store. We do have an H-E-B so groceries are covered and some other bigger stores are coming into town. Without them, losing Walmart would mean driving an hour to a bigger city for many things. The market will adapt. Something will pop up to serve those needs, hopefully somewhere with Roof Koreans. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:05:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MLK was horrible back when it was called Union Ave. Can't imagine it now. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: My dad live on Hayden island until last year. The Walmart he went to was in delta Park(I think). Complete freak show. I used to work at fisherman's marine and supply in high school the place has gone seriously down hill it's hard to comprehend. I've been to the WM on NE Hayden Pkwy/Delta Park numerous times - it's the closet OR Walmart (no sales tax) to my parents house in Vancouver WA. That WM is a shit hole and the area around it is full on homeless encampment. Yep. Hayden Island is on the north edge of Portland, just before crossing the Columbia River into Washington. Mostly industrial area with a lot of freight terminals, semi truck service and parts shops, truck stop, etc. Massive homeless camps especially around the I-5 ramps. Across I-5 is the Expo Center where the gun shows are held. Up the freeway a half mile is the Delta Park malls and restaurants. The Lowes there is where a parking lot security guard shot and killed a homeless guy over nothing. Everyone knows the homeless are a protected class in Portland. He was an idiot confronting him and even more retarded shooting him in his car. But that is the NICER part of the area! I imagine theft, poop around the building, trashed restrooms, scaring off normal customers. Who in their right mind would shop there? I drove truck around the industrial areas and there are some really really bad homeless areas. Hayden is one. Just for reference, Martin Luther King Blvd runs through east side downtown up to where it intersects I-5 at Harden Island. Whole area has epic homeless camps with tents, tarps, burned out cars, decrepit RVs, campfires,etc. MLK was horrible back when it was called Union Ave. Can't imagine it now. MLK itself isn’t so bad but it is a main N-S conduit and everything around is trashed. There are camps that are hundreds of “shelters”. On the side roads there are tents and RVs encroaching on the street. Driving a semi through there you really have to watch for what might have migrated into the roadway since your last run. It is very depressing seeing that much lost humanity. The homeless like the industrial areas because there is a lot of vacant space in between terminals, warehouses, shops. And we’re all too busy to hassle them. My all time favorite “shelter” was an old blue school bus (trashed throughout) pulling a broken down utility trailer with a burned out pickup on it. Behind him was a beat to death VW van pulling a boat on a trailer that looked like it was recovered from the Titanic. I was shocked to see they both made the two block move when the police did their quarterly roust. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:14:42 PM EDT
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"... and unfortunately some do not meet our financial expectations..." this is nice speak for closing down a store in not so good neighborhoods. I remember economically depressed areas, people complaining of not enough grocery stores in certain blighted areas of town, and that the prices are too high.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:23:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MKK itself isn’t so bad but it is a main N-S conduit and everything around is trashed. There are camps that are hundreds of “shelters”. On the side roads there are tents and RVs encroaching on the street. Driving a semi through there you really have to watch for what might have migrated into the roadway since your last run. It is very depressing seeing that much lost humanity. The homeless like the industrial areas because there is a lot of vacant space in between terminals, warehouses, shops. And we’re all too busy to hassle them. My all time favorite “shelter” was an old blue school bus (trashed throughout) pulling a broken down utility trailer with a burned out pickup on it. Behind him was a beat to death VW van pulling a boat on a trailer that looked like it was recovered from the Titanic. I was shocked to see they both made the two block move when the police did their quarterly roust. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: My dad live on Hayden island until last year. The Walmart he went to was in delta Park(I think). Complete freak show. I used to work at fisherman's marine and supply in high school the place has gone seriously down hill it's hard to comprehend. I've been to the WM on NE Hayden Pkwy/Delta Park numerous times - it's the closet OR Walmart (no sales tax) to my parents house in Vancouver WA. That WM is a shit hole and the area around it is full on homeless encampment. Yep. Hayden Island is on the north edge of Portland, just before crossing the Columbia River into Washington. Mostly industrial area with a lot of freight terminals, semi truck service and parts shops, truck stop, etc. Massive homeless camps especially around the I-5 ramps. Across I-5 is the Expo Center where the gun shows are held. Up the freeway a half mile is the Delta Park malls and restaurants. The Lowes there is where a parking lot security guard shot and killed a homeless guy over nothing. Everyone knows the homeless are a protected class in Portland. He was an idiot confronting him and even more retarded shooting him in his car. But that is the NICER part of the area! I imagine theft, poop around the building, trashed restrooms, scaring off normal customers. Who in their right mind would shop there? I drove truck around the industrial areas and there are some really really bad homeless areas. Hayden is one. Just for reference, Martin Luther King Blvd runs through east side downtown up to where it intersects I-5 at Harden Island. Whole area has epic homeless camps with tents, tarps, burned out cars, decrepit RVs, campfires,etc. MLK was horrible back when it was called Union Ave. Can't imagine it now. MKK itself isn’t so bad but it is a main N-S conduit and everything around is trashed. There are camps that are hundreds of “shelters”. On the side roads there are tents and RVs encroaching on the street. Driving a semi through there you really have to watch for what might have migrated into the roadway since your last run. It is very depressing seeing that much lost humanity. The homeless like the industrial areas because there is a lot of vacant space in between terminals, warehouses, shops. And we’re all too busy to hassle them. My all time favorite “shelter” was an old blue school bus (trashed throughout) pulling a broken down utility trailer with a burned out pickup on it. Behind him was a beat to death VW van pulling a boat on a trailer that looked like it was recovered from the Titanic. I was shocked to see they both made the two block move when the police did their quarterly roust. Not trying to be contrarian with you, especially since you still live there nd I dont anymore but what you're describing doesn't sound like "not so bad" 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:33:02 PM EDT
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Lol, I was fairly optimistic that even the libs of PDX were fed up with the democrat run city and the garbage policies, but when Kotek won the governor’s race, that illustrated that further societal decay (like this) is needed to force a change.
I really thought that the homelessness problem would have been enough of a motivating factor to sway democrat voters to the other side, but I see that they need to suffer more before they will ever correlate their actions to the consequences. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:38:56 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Everyone saying “good”…remember these POS low class crazy people will have to push out to other areas to shop lift. I don’t blame Walmart but once they trash Portland to the point of no return they will be forced to head to other areas to survive. Convenient how the homeless problem became out of control a few years after light rail was pushed through to connect the burbs with downtown. Hillsboro line terminates next to the county jail. More than one escapee (we have 400# blimps for guards) has scooted on the Max rail. We have plenty in the burbs now but likely to lots more. People still give cash handouts to them like they are pets. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:47:29 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You know there are large swaths of the US that aren't shit holes and some of us choose to live away from the shit holes on purpose? I have lived all over VA and I have never seen that in my life and VA had it's fair share of shit holes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I’ve been at one of those Walmart locations. All of the shopping carts are geofenced. Take one a certain distance outside of the store parking lot and a brake/boot is activated preventing the wheels from turning. Never seen anything like it. You don’t get out much do you? You know there are large swaths of the US that aren't shit holes and some of us choose to live away from the shit holes on purpose? I have lived all over VA and I have never seen that in my life and VA had it's fair share of shit holes. Hmmm sounds like an urban legend. The news assures me this is normal and anyplace without housing diversity and no bail is a reactive myth. Strength in submission. Tolerance over hygiene! |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:49:07 PM EDT
[#22]
This is what Portland wants. The left has hated Walmart for forever. Walmart shouldn’t have catered to them every chance they had.
The trash is being taken out by the trash. No one involved will get any sympathy from me. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:50:20 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Where will the people of Portland get their Chinese rubber dog shit now? We don’t need rubber dog shit. We have plenty of the good stuff all over the sidewalks. 
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Posted: 3/2/2023 3:58:12 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That poor Winco is going to get raped. Quote HistoryQuoted: That poor Winco is going to get raped. One of the local Wincos now has almost 24/7 police presence because of the homeless camps. We avoid it and go across town to the other one which is in a nice mall area. And yes, we are leaving Oregon and our beloved Pacific NW for good later this year. The Tri-Met light rail corrupted the formerly conservative neighbor counties and cities. They all tow the Portland politics line now like good apparatchiks. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:02:20 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: But where will the homeless steal their tents from? Here they don’t need to steal tents. Portland spends millions to provide them something like 5,000 tents every year. Every time a camp moves they burn down many of the tents, any cars that can’t move and whatever else they feel like. Move 1/5 mile and get new tents and repeat. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:04:37 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You laugh about what Walmart sells but have no idea what this means to the local shoppers. They have lost access to groceries, prescription drugs, household cleaning supplies, pet supplies, baby supplies and all kinds of general merchandise. I have a place in small cities Texas and Walmart is the only big box store. We do have an H-E-B so groceries are covered and some other bigger stores are coming into town. Without them, losing Walmart would mean driving an hour to a bigger city for many things. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Where will the people of Portland get their Chinese rubber dog shit now? You laugh about what Walmart sells but have no idea what this means to the local shoppers. They have lost access to groceries, prescription drugs, household cleaning supplies, pet supplies, baby supplies and all kinds of general merchandise. I have a place in small cities Texas and Walmart is the only big box store. We do have an H-E-B so groceries are covered and some other bigger stores are coming into town. Without them, losing Walmart would mean driving an hour to a bigger city for many things. Yeah the double-whammy is that when a Walmart opens it kills off a lot of smaller stores like pharmacy, tire shop, flower shops, etc. Then when the Walmart closes there is nothing local left to pick up the gap. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:07:10 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's what we in the business call "Shrink". I WAS IN THE POOL! |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:08:33 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What is the real reason for the closings? I imagine more shit stolen than bought. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:11:46 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Big corporations like Walmart and Target campaigned for this bullshit. They backed BLM. They put up with shoplifting. The communities did the same. Now they are reaping what they have sown. But like good little socialists they will fail to learn the lesson. Truth in a nutshell. Amazing to watch the inevitable slide into the abyss but nothing will stop them. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:17:56 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not trying to be contrarian with you, especially since you still live there nd I dont anymore but what you're describing doesn't sound like "not so bad" Come on , man! It’s fifty shades of shit. You gots to appreciate the shit that that is less shittier than the nasty no-good shit. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:19:01 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, I was fairly optimistic that even the libs of PDX were fed up with the democrat run city and the garbage policies, but when Kotek won the governor’s race, that illustrated that further societal decay (like this) is needed to force a change. I really thought that the homelessness problem would have been enough of a motivating factor to sway democrat voters to the other side, but I see that they need to suffer more before they will ever correlate their actions to the consequences. Well said. I thought the same but they are hell bent on this path of self destruction with smiles. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:35:40 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The market will adapt. Something will pop up to serve those needs, hopefully somewhere with Roof Koreans. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You laugh about what Walmart sells but have no idea what this means to the local shoppers. They have lost access to groceries, prescription drugs, household cleaning supplies, pet supplies, baby supplies and all kinds of general merchandise. I have a place in small cities Texas and Walmart is the only big box store. We do have an H-E-B so groceries are covered and some other bigger stores are coming into town. Without them, losing Walmart would mean driving an hour to a bigger city for many things. The market will adapt. Something will pop up to serve those needs, hopefully somewhere with Roof Koreans. The market has adapted. You can shop at the little stores with overpriced and often spoiled food kept behind bulletproof glass. Try shopping in some Chicago neighborhoods. Aldi closed a store in Chicago and everyone was covering the story. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 4:54:06 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ahhh GI Joes. I loved that place as a kid. I still miss it when I visit and see what the buildings have changed into. I remember going to GI Joes in the 70s when they actually sold surplus |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:08:57 PM EDT
[#34]
Walmart took Scott Adams advice.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:12:21 PM EDT
[#35]
All the Aldi's I have been to have geofenced shopping carts, even those in nicer areas.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:18:55 PM EDT
[#36]
If every Wally World went belly-up in this country ... our country would be a better place.
Plus, it would hurt Chynah. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:20:12 PM EDT
[#37]
Good. Portland needs more food deserts. Starve the libs out
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:25:25 PM EDT
[#38]
Good for Walmart
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Posted: 3/2/2023 5:46:11 PM EDT
[#39]
Walmart pulling out as Oregon just passed a bill giving homeless people $1,000 a month.
As businesses in NYC close the idiots there are giving certain artists upwards of $2k a month as I recall. The insanity is real in liberal land. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:12:34 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Years ago I went to Richardson for work, which is adjacent and just north of Dallas for those not familiar. The homeless and graffiti magically stopped at the Richardson city limits. Like literally one exit full of graffiti and homeless, then nothing. I commented to my coworker I don't know what the Richardson police are doing, but it is apparently working. No idea what it is like now. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: This, it just pushes the trolls out into surrounding areas. You'd think that; but living next to Dallas, I can say if the surrounding areas don't play by Portland/Dallas rules, they learn pretty quick to avoid those areas. Because there are consequences for being a shithead in the surrounding areas. Years ago I went to Richardson for work, which is adjacent and just north of Dallas for those not familiar. The homeless and graffiti magically stopped at the Richardson city limits. Like literally one exit full of graffiti and homeless, then nothing. I commented to my coworker I don't know what the Richardson police are doing, but it is apparently working. No idea what it is like now. Dallas PD is excellent at giving dentist's speeding tickets on their way to work on toll roads, where only people with enough means to pay tolls, drive. Everything else is fine, and kind of dangerous really. They'll see ya on your way home from work. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:23:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dallas PD is excellent at giving dentist's speeding tickets on their way to work on toll roads, where only people with enough means to pay tolls, drive. Everything else is fine, and kind of dangerous really. They'll see ya on your way home from work. Off-duty Dallas PD working their second job probably do more to keep order than on-duty Dallas PD; because their employers expect them to handle things. I remember walking around downtown Dallas at midnight probably a decade ago and there was damn near a cop on every corner (working security for clubs or restaurants). Felt completely safe. Come 2:30am, all those cops were nowhere to be seen and it was full-blown Evil Dead time. That was one of those "I chose poorly" moments. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:26:53 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Portland area Fred Meyer stores shrinkage predicted to skyrocket in T-minus 10, 9, 8…… Any large stories in Portland will need North Korea levels of security to survive. It doesn't help that a lot of the middle/upper middle income people in Portland have moved to the suburbs to escape the hellscape. They'll vote for liberal policies, but don't want to have to deal with them personally. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:35:00 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not unexpected. Want to learn something about your city? Get a map of your WalMarts and then overlay it on the crime map from your local PD. This also works with a map of public transit. Yep. 100%. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:38:01 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Convenient how the homeless problem became out of control a few years after light rail was pushed through to connect the burbs with downtown. Hillsboro line terminates next to the county jail. More than one escapee (we have 400# blimps for guards) has scooted on the Max rail. We have plenty in the burbs now but likely to lots more. People still give cash handouts to them like they are pets. These things happen when your transit system does not actually require riders to actually pay. Then they kneecap the LE who did spot checks for fare payment. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:46:30 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: These things happen when your transit system does not actually require riders to actually pay. Then they kneecap the LE who did spot checks for fare payment. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Convenient how the homeless problem became out of control a few years after light rail was pushed through to connect the burbs with downtown. Hillsboro line terminates next to the county jail. More than one escapee (we have 400# blimps for guards) has scooted on the Max rail. We have plenty in the burbs now but likely to lots more. People still give cash handouts to them like they are pets. These things happen when your transit system does not actually require riders to actually pay. Then they kneecap the LE who did spot checks for fare payment. Trimet is a joke. It's propped up by businesses that operate in the Portland area. They tax you a "trimet" tax as a percentage of your gross (not net) profits. It can't and never will actually be able to turn a profit (or even break even) due to the way its ran. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:47:41 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One of the local Wincos now has almost 24/7 police presence because of the homeless camps. We avoid it and go across town to the other one which is in a nice mall area. And yes, we are leaving Oregon and our beloved Pacific NW for good later this year. The Tri-Met light rail corrupted the formerly conservative neighbor counties and cities. They all tow the Portland politics line now like good apparatchiks. Wincos have a shitload of crime happening in their parking lots, and I have refused to shop there for decades. Not all the stores, just most of them. The store tries hard to deal with theft and fraud, but caters to a certain low budget crowd. I can literally think of murders, robberies, carjackings, and similar at various Winco locations in the metro area. Basically it was a bad option before the homeless issue got out of control. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 7:50:02 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Trimet is a joke. It's propped up by businesses that operate in the Portland area. They tax you a "trimet" tax as a percentage of your gross (not net) profits. It can't and never will actually be able to turn a profit (or even break even) due to the way its ran. All true as well. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 8:05:12 PM EDT
[#48]
Another example of the voters getting exactly what they voted for.
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Posted: 3/2/2023 8:05:27 PM EDT
[#49]
So my prediction is this- the Wood Village Walmart is gonna get even worse. It it outside Portland city limits, but still in Multnomah County, so you have the same leftist county commissioners, and the same useless DA handling crimes (ie- not handling them).
Has always been common for some people to travel to nicer area stores to do their stealing, now they have no choice. Well they could stop being thieves I guess, but we all know that won’t happen. |
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Posted: 3/2/2023 8:12:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wincos have a shitload of crime happening in their parking lots, and I have refused to shop there for decades. Not all the stores, just most of them. The store tries hard to deal with theft and fraud, but caters to a certain low budget crowd. I can literally think of murders, robberies, carjackings, and similar at various Winco locations in the metro area. Basically it was a bad option before the homeless issue got out of control. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: One of the local Wincos now has almost 24/7 police presence because of the homeless camps. We avoid it and go across town to the other one which is in a nice mall area. And yes, we are leaving Oregon and our beloved Pacific NW for good later this year. The Tri-Met light rail corrupted the formerly conservative neighbor counties and cities. They all tow the Portland politics line now like good apparatchiks. Wincos have a shitload of crime happening in their parking lots, and I have refused to shop there for decades. Not all the stores, just most of them. The store tries hard to deal with theft and fraud, but caters to a certain low budget crowd. I can literally think of murders, robberies, carjackings, and similar at various Winco locations in the metro area. Basically it was a bad option before the homeless issue got out of control. Winco/Cub Foods was where all the broke dicks without bank accounts went to cash their paychecks before blowing it on booze and titty bars. They cashed payroll checks for free but $5 was returned in the form of a giant token that was worth $5 in store credit. My buddy Joel would do this every friday at the Winco by our work. |
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