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Home Front: Politix
Walgreens: getting out while they still can
2024-02-04
[AMERICANTHINKER] By Mike McDaniel
Thomas Lifson recently wrote about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to car in the drive-up lane, robbing customers as they waited for their orders.

This kind of wanton, and unrestrained criminality isn’t limited to California. It’s everywhere Democrats/socialist/communists rule, places across the country like Boston:

Walgreens was accused of "racial discrimination" by a Democratic politician in Massachusetts after the pharmacy giant closed another location in Boston.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., railed against the "multi-billion dollar corporation" for their decision to pull out of the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood of Roxbury during a speech on the House floor on Wednesday. It is the fourth Walgreens store to close in Boston in a little over a year.

"Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th," Pressley began.

"When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination," she stated.


Walgreens is taking what little remains on the shelves after "the entire community" took everything else without the intermediate step of paying for it.

Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats Senator Ed Markey
...U.S. Representative-for-Life from Massachusetts, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party, naturally....
and Senator Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.

Last month, the Democratic politicians protested the store's closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, Boston25 News reported.

What a shame no one could have possibly foreseen that when crime runs rampant, and constant, organized shoplifting destroys any hope of making a profit, businesses tend to go where crime is not rampant and they can make a profit. In Boston, apparently profit is racist.

"Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities," she said.

The community had plenty or input, or more accurately, output, which is why Walgreens is fleeing.

In 2022, Walgreens was accused of racism by Boston officials after it closed three other stores in mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

At the time, the company said "several factors are taken into account" when choosing to close a location, such as "the dynamics of the local market and changes in the buying habits of our patients and customers."

Such as not bothering to pay for things by the dynamic criminals operating in the "local market?" One would think adults, having lived in such places long enough to experience reality, like being robbed and constantly burglarized, would come to understand cause-effect relationships. Places like Washington, DC, for example?
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Posted by:Fred

#7  ..embrace the power of 'and'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-02-04 18:17  

#6  ^Consider not stupid but crazy.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-02-04 13:52  

#5  Imagine being so evil that you're willing to look that stupid to achieve your nefarious goals. Or vice versa.
Posted by: Angusogum Brown2016   2024-02-04 13:47  

#4  So, liberal pols shout "How dare you not stay open to be robbed by my constituents."

How else should a sane person or organization react but to abandon that mess as quickly as possible?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-02-04 09:32  

#3  ^ Less, actually. We had links to 1-3% in comments yesterday
Posted by: Frank G   2024-02-04 09:19  

#2  Most people don't understand that the profit margin in stores is in the 5-10% range.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-02-04 09:13  

#1  Like Covid the stuff still on the shelf must be so unpopular as to not be salable anyway. The difference would be that there is now no purpose in marking down these SKUs as all items currently have the same price.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-02-04 07:57  

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