https://www.city-journal.org/article/walgreens-chicago-closure-crime-retail-theftWalgreens is pulling out of Chicago’s South Side, home to some of the city’s most crime-ridden areas. The closure of a store in the city’s Chatham neighborhood, set for June 4, marks the seventh Walgreens location to shut down on the South Side in the past year.Who’s to blame for this departure? Chicago Alderman William Hall, who represents Chatham as part of Ward 6, blames the company. Walgreens, he said, should be charged with “first-degree corporate abandonment” for creating a “medicine drought,” and he even accused it of committing a “pharmaceutical genocide.” (It’s particularly rich that Hall is now castigating Walgreens for closing, given that he hadn’t been happy about Walgreens opening, alleging it “ran out” small, local businesses.)Think of the poor elderly who taught their kids to steal how will they get their prescriptions now. Chicago's open for business, but if you leave we'll sue you for corporate abandonment, if you put up anti theft measures you'll be branded a racist, in a city rapidly reducing its law enforcement, serving a violent community with a theft culture.
>>1516021Walgreens is in the midst of a massive corporate restructuring plan to close approximately 1,200 underperforming locations nationwide by 2027. The company shuttered around 500 stores by the end of 2025 and plans to close fewer than 100 additional locations this year to stave off financial pressures.Also, OPs like to city-journal is a far right magazine/website and is not a credible news source.Also, OP is a giant faggot.
>>1516022https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/city-journal/mostly factual same rating as cnn
>>1516022Stores are "underperforming" because of rampant theft caused by Democrat voter. Also, a magazine or site being right wing doesn't mean it's not credible. Far left outlets are the ones always doctoring facts
op is indeed a faggot
>>1516022weird how the 3 Walgreens near me in my Republican county are doing fine.>Also, OP's link is part of the ideology known for providing objective facts instead of the fake news that I am used to
>>1516026op, nobody will ever think you're white or american
>>1516027Hit troons hollering again
it's been 0 days since esl shill brought up his fetish for no reason
>>1516026weird how you can claim that and be living in russia at the same time.
>>1516023CNN isn't exactly "fake news", it's more akin to yellow journalism. I have it on right now and they're interviewing firefighters about adopting a dog named Jake.
>>1516022>they're restructuring and shutting down underperforming stores anyways!>be a loss leader, to the tune of 1 million $ a year.>its not our fault our policies lead to rampant record high theft. Its wallgreen's wall for not continuing to subsidize democrat theft cities!man are democrats dumb.
>>1516038god you're esl
>>1516039>esl, dogwhistle for uneducated>filter out ESL>thread IQ goes up 25pointsthanks for singling yourself out.
Calling bullshit. Stores say this bullshit to use the closing of unprofitable locations as an excuse to try to get cities to help foot the bill for loss prevention. We literally just went through this bullshit a few years ago when thy tried to claim massive theft was behind closures in California, but then when investors got spooked about losses being that bad started asking about that they had to retract their bullshit because lying to investors carries heavier consequences than lying to the media.>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/07/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-key-claim-on-organized-retail-crime-accounting-for-inventory-losses.htmlStop pushing fucking corporate propaganda we literally already fucking know is fake.
>>1516040esl shill, you can't brag about your iq if you can't even spell things correctly when you post
>>1516022>1,200 underperforming locationsWhy are they underperforming?>>1516026>weird how the 3 Walgreens near me in my Republican county are doing fine.Holy shit, this x 1000!>>1516042>overwhelming number of Walgreens stores closing is in California>after California puts the shoplifting crime limit at $950Gee, what a coincidence! Care to explain why this shit isn't happening ANYWHERE ELSE THAT ISN'T A BLUE STATE??? You fucking smoke detector neglector.
>>1516042>try to get cities to help foot the bill for loss prevention.they're just leaving the city anon you lost your propaganda has failed and so has your conspiracy theories.they aren't going to announce this then change course when they gave themselves a 2 week deadline in early june
>>1516047why do you always pretend to be multiple posters?
>>1516038>>1516047>Why are they underperforming?Amazon got into RX and absolutely decimated brick and mortar pharmacy. These places like CVS, Walgreens, RiteAid, etc were really just a pharmacy with 8,000sq/ft of bullshit attached to it.You can look at CVS and RiteAid to confirm is not a Walgreens only thing.
>>1516050That was my first post in this thread, jackass. I know you think /news/ is a perfectly secure echo chamber for you predditors to stroke each other off about how much you hate Trump, but unfortunately for you 4chan hasn't banned everyone that disagrees with your delusional bullshit (yet, give /news/ a few more years).
>>1516047>Why are they underperforming?Because corporations oversaturate markets to destroy local competition and then reduce their number of locations and increase prices after they have done so to maximize long term profits.Or did you think it was both normal and sustainable to have a Dollar General on every streetcorner in the backwater shithole you call a home?
>>1516021Reminder: It is OK to steal from Walgreens
>>1516048>they're just leaving the city anonThey have other locations dipshit.
>>1516047>Gee, what a coincidence!You are recycling a claim that they've already retracted, you dumbass shill.The only thing dumber than spreading corporate propaganda is spreading retracted corporate propaganda.Also, the entire reason shoplifting penalties were so fucking high in the first fucking place was retail lobbying. Wage theft is several orders of magnitude higher than retail theft, and when's the last time you've heard of someone getting locked up for that shit?
>>1516053oh, i see, it's because you're a liar. thanks for letting me know
It is not a shoplifting thing.https://www.supermarketnews.com/new-stores/walgreens-closed-58-stores-across-u-s-in-november
>>1516057not in south chicago anymore dumbass
>>1516061and you're not in america
>>1516027>>1516031>>1516033>you are right and I concedeI accept your concession>I am now going to overcompensate by pretending to be a dominant alpha and call you a faggotI still accept your concession
esl shill is throwing another tantrum over his nickname, lol
>>1516021Look, I'm not even going to dance on the graves of Democrat policy here.Walgreens being driven out of anywhere for any reason is a good thing, even if it's via Democrat's complete disregard for enforcing the law.IT'S OK TO STEAL FROM WALGREENS.
>>1516058>You are recycling a claim that they've already retracted, you dumbass shill.And where did I do that? Which post?
>>1516066the post where you're being an obtuse faggot
>>1516052>Amazon got into RX and absolutely decimated brick and mortar pharmacy.>because it's safer to buy the product online than to go into a store and risk getting attacked while you wait for an employee to unlock the shampoo from the anti-theft containers
>>1516021>https://www.city-journal.org>City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute for Policy Research since 1990Not a valid news source.
>>1516067Which post, monkey? Show me.
>>1516070your life is embarrassing
>>1516068That and they did what Walgreens did decades ago: put competition out of business and made themselves easy to access.Personally in my city 5 Walgreens have been shuttered.There's still a Walgreens every 2 miles.And every Walgreens is understaffed and poorly stocked.
>>1516071That's what I thought, faggot.>durrr he hurrrrr everyone who disagrees with me is the same
>>1516073you think your life is embarrassing too? i'm glad we can agree on at least one thing
>>1516073Why even argue with the resident esl lolcow shillfag? That faggot has never owned a single shitty argument it's made and it site on the board for like 18 hours a day trolling it's 'esl shill' which is everyone who doesn't agree with the creature.
>>1516076you're projecting again
>>1516077You're poojecting again, saar.
it's always funny when esl shill decides to be racist to himself
I have no idea why this is even a topic of discussion. Nigs steal from store too much, store closes down because it's (obviously) not good business practice to stay open in that environment. Libtards cry muh racisms. Close anyway. Profit?
>>1516081you posted the thread, faggot. you know exactly why it's a topic of discussion, so you don't have to defend the pedophile in chief for a few minutes
