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13 Supermarkets ABANDON Milwaukee… Over Theft Epidemic​

July 30, 2025 2:20 pm by Alex Mark


5 entire grocery stores are leaving the city of Milwaukee at once, along with 2 walgreens locations. Local officials and residents are outraged, and want the stores to stay. Kroger who owns the 5 Pick n Save locations says the stores are leaving for ‘health of the business’ reasons… which requires an investigation.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/13-supermarkets-abandon-milwaukee-over-theft-epidemic/

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10023064/walgreens-closing-stores-theft-threats-milwaukee-wisconsin/

Why supermarkets have abandoned some of America’s poorest neighborhoods​

"Supermarkets have abandoned the inner city for suburban and exurban locations"​

By Ashlie D. Stevens
Senior Food Editor

Published March 24, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)​

A "Going Out Of Business"sign is displayed outside a retail store (Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images)
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Despite the recent news that Family Dollar would be closing nearly 1,000 of their 8,000 American locations, dollar stores are spreading across the country at a staggering rate. Since 2011, the number of dollar stores nationwide has climbed from 20,000 to over 30,000, meaning there are now more dollar stores than Walmart and McDonald’s combined, according to a report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Though they rarely carry fresh fruit, vegetables and meat — and despite likely exacerbating American food deserts — dollar stores are actually the fastest-growing food retailers in the United States, according to a 2023 study from experts at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

There are a variety of reasons for that, but one of the most significant by far is the way in which big-name supermarkets have largely abandoned, or avoided, many low-income neighborhoods over the last half-century, leaving a gigantic vacuum for dollar stores to fill, specifically in urban communities of color.

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/24/wh...doned-some-of-americas-poorest-neighborhoods/

Then they hold demonstrations saying that having food is a right.

 

[Buffalogurl]

13 Supermarkets ABANDON Milwaukee… Over Theft Epidemic​

July 30, 2025 2:20 pm by Alex Mark


5 entire grocery stores are leaving the city of Milwaukee at once, along with 2 walgreens locations. Local officials and residents are outraged, and want the stores to stay. Kroger who owns the 5 Pick n Save locations says the stores are leaving for ‘health of the business’ reasons… which requires an investigation.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/13-supermarkets-abandon-milwaukee-over-theft-epidemic/

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10023064/walgreens-closing-stores-theft-threats-milwaukee-wisconsin/

Why supermarkets have abandoned some of America’s poorest neighborhoods​

"Supermarkets have abandoned the inner city for suburban and exurban locations"​

By Ashlie D. Stevens
Senior Food Editor

Published March 24, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)​

A "Going Out Of Business"sign is displayed outside a retail store (Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images)
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Despite the recent news that Family Dollar would be closing nearly 1,000 of their 8,000 American locations, dollar stores are spreading across the country at a staggering rate. Since 2011, the number of dollar stores nationwide has climbed from 20,000 to over 30,000, meaning there are now more dollar stores than Walmart and McDonald’s combined, according to a report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Though they rarely carry fresh fruit, vegetables and meat — and despite likely exacerbating American food deserts — dollar stores are actually the fastest-growing food retailers in the United States, according to a 2023 study from experts at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

There are a variety of reasons for that, but one of the most significant by far is the way in which big-name supermarkets have largely abandoned, or avoided, many low-income neighborhoods over the last half-century, leaving a gigantic vacuum for dollar stores to fill, specifically in urban communities of color.

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/24/wh...doned-some-of-americas-poorest-neighborhoods/

Then they hold demonstrations saying that having food is a right.

Maybe, just maybe if the patronage of these very unfortunate establishments would refrain from shoplifting, then begin purchasing the products there may very well have been a different outcome .... just say'in...f.a.f.o.

 

[ll74]

Grocery stores need proper subsidies to keep them in neighborhoods that need them. The free market doesn't make money there and will leave.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Grocery stores need proper subsidies to keep them in neighborhoods that need them. The free market doesn't make money there and will leave.

LMFAO!!!!! Who pays for the subsidies that will keep the stores open so those vermin can continue to steal?

 

[glamorilla]

can't they do amazon fresh?

 

[Rebel5soul]

can't they do amazon fresh?

*snap* Of course, they all have cell phones. Delivery may be an issue though.

 

[ll74]

LMFAO!!!!! Who pays for the subsidies that will keep the stores open so those vermin can continue to steal?

Figures you'd miss my point. I'm talking about grocery store chains.

Dollar stores would go the way of the DoDo if there were better run companies who were willing to stay.

 

[coati]

LMFAO!!!!! Who pays for the subsidies that will keep the stores open so those vermin can continue to steal?

No surprise here with this MAGAt referring to poor minority people as "vermin", which was the favored term that Nazis used to dehumanize whole groups of people.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Figures you'd miss my point. I'm talking about grocery store chains.

Dollar stores would go the way of the DoDo if there were better run companies who were willing to stay.

Of course you "assumed" which makes you an ass.

Grocery stores work at the lowest profit margin of ALL retail businesses. And based on location the higher the lose based on theft, the higher the prices the owner has to charge to merely keep the doors open.

It is absolutely true that if you shopped at chain store 'X' in an affluent neighborhood the prices were lower than stores of the same chain located in the ghetto. And the denizens of the ghetto scream that they're 'getting ripped off.' No they aren't, they're making up the losses of the assholes in their community that engage in theft.

Ultimately, as an owner, the loses reach a level where you just pack up your shit and leave.

Now, if the community wants to use the citizens tax dollars to subsidize a store, fine, have at it. Let's see how local Communism works. But it's been tried and has failed every time. Subsidized grocery stores are no answer. If you don't deal with the criminal you'll never get rid of the crime.