Sadly, the looting problem in the Detroit of yesteryear was so bad that today residents are hoping for major stores to re-open in the city. There isn't a major branded supermarket within Detroit's city limits, except for one Meijer store on 8 Mile Road, and residents either have to pay inflated prices at convenience stores or have transportation to the supermarkets here in the suburbs.
So, it's not unprecedented that a major city would lose its retail outlets. It happened here in the 1980s and 1990s, and the poorest of the poor were the ones most affected. I remember as a child and early teenager going to the "big box" stores of the day (1980s) in the 7 Mile Road/Gratiot area on the city's east side: Montgomery Wards. It closed up well before the chain foundered sometime in the early 2000s. Just too much theft, and too few paying customers who could afford the merchandise. You won't find a Lowes or a Target. Google it; they don't exist. They're all around in the suburbs, places where law enforcement could (just barely) keep up with prosecuting the retail thefts. Shouldn't a city of 632,000 have more than one Home Depot store within its borders? What about a Walmart? (None within the city limits.) Kroger? Absent.
Even yet today, the stores closest/most accessible to the city limits are besieged with shoplifters. We have a Walmart on a major north-south artery about 6 miles north of the city limit. The police are there constantly rounding up shoplifters. It's a real drain on the suburb I live in.
Sadly, the looting problem in the Detroit of yesteryear was so bad that today residents are hoping for major stores to re-open in the city. There isn't a major branded supermarket within Detroit's city limits, except for one Meijer store on 8 Mile Road, and residents either have to pay inflated prices at convenience stores or have transportation to the supermarkets here in the suburbs.
So, it's not unprecedented that a major city would lose its retail outlets. It happened here in the 1980s and 1990s, and the poorest of the poor were the ones most affected. I remember as a child and early teenager going to the "big box" stores of the day (1980s) in the 7 Mile Road/Gratiot area on the city's east side: Montgomery Wards. It closed up well before the chain foundered sometime in the early 2000s. Just too much theft, and too few paying customers who could afford the merchandise. You won't find a Lowes or a Target. Google it; they don't exist. They're all around in the suburbs, places where law enforcement could (just barely) keep up with prosecuting the retail thefts. Shouldn't a city of 632,000 have more than one Home Depot store within its borders? What about a Walmart? (None within the city limits.) Kroger? Absent.
Even yet today, the stores closest/most accessible to the city limits are besieged with shoplifters. We have a Walmart on a major north-south artery about 6 miles north of the city limit. The police are there constantly rounding up shoplifters. It's a real drain on the suburb I live in.
A few adages come to mind, such as … we get the government that we deserve.
And then one of my favorites …
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” ― H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major
I don’t think he meant it this way, but words can cut both ways …
“Elections have consequences.” ― Barack Hussein Obama
(How is that working out for you San Francisco? Portland? Los Angeles? NYC?)
Lastly, there is Walt Kelly’s Pogo … “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us”
No one in their right mind can think this is ok. What is their real end goal?
Said looting is Organized, like flash mobs via Social Media
Planned
Via Cartel aid
We pay higher prices for products now
No security
Its vigilante time now
The Uniparty the DC Estd DONT Help