Walmart to close ALL Portland stores in March

[FreeAndClear]

@e7alr

If potential customers have stopped coming to an area there is no market share to acquire. And when the Walmart closes the predators will still be there, but the only prey for them will be the remaining businesses.

All that is true. Except it’s replete with assumptions.

[FreeAndClear]

But that’s not the only point.

Crime is a problem.

Walmart has problems in addition to crime

But we only gonna talk about crime because we get to blame libs and dems for not putting people under the jail. Meanwhile we will ignore three decades of collapsing crime rates in these same cities. We are also going to ignore the fact that crime rates are starting to trend down again.

Because dems!!! Or libs!!! Or some such.

[Rodeo]

@Orygun

Seahawks! My favorite team- and yea that’s hard to be a fan. Been sad since Wilson left. I’ve watched them since I was a kid and watched them suck pretty much forever except that Golden era.

And yes we may disagree on everything, but I have a feeling most of us could drink a beer over a game without getting into a fight. Fun to argue here tho.

Got my first radio job 40+ years ago in southern oregon when I was 17…dream was to be the play by play guy for the trailblazers…(sadly the nba has kind of lost me).

Yeah…and I admit I get carried away but I have strong opinions…

I’m sure most of us on this forum are good people…

Suppose I need to start with me remembering that.

(And just remember Gino Smith’s Seahawks had a better year that Wilson’s broncos who saw that coming?)

Anyway that’s as far off topic as we can get…

These things run in cycles….maybe Portland and surrounding areas can find a spot somewhere back toward the center.

Have a blessed day friends.

[Rodeo]

@FreeAndClear

But that’s not the only point.

Crime is a problem.

Walmart has problems in addition to crime

But we only gonna talk about crime because we get to blame libs and dems for not putting people under the jail. Meanwhile we will ignore three decades of collapsing crime rates in these same cities. We are also going to ignore the fact that crime rates are starting to trend down again.

Because dems!!! Or libs!!! Or some such.

Whatever dude…

[Orygun]

Or…you could see that this is part of a much larger issue of Big Box stores shuttering at extremely high rates. The largest cause? Internet shopping.

I’ll blame Portland politics for some things…this ain’t it.

Why store closures are plaguing big-box retailers

[Orygun]

@Rodeo

Got my first radio job 40+ years ago in southern oregon when I was 17…dream was to be the play by play guy for the trailblazers…(sadly the nba has kind of lost me).

The NBA has lost me too…have a good day today too man.

[DougBH]

@FreeAndClear

And in those decades crime in Portland went down. Something else happened in 2020 and crime started going up nationwide.

He is not wrong. Can’t ignore a rise in crime as having an effect but calling someone short sighted and then looking solely at the indicator that benefits your argument isn’t exactly good analysis.

What prevented walmart from citing to crime?

Walmart CEO said “a lax approach from prosecutors could impact prices and lead to store closures down the line”.
“It’s really city by city, location by location”.

Portland has prosecutors who are lax on shoplifting prosecutions.
Walmart left Portland.
Some people think they know why.

Rising thefts at Walmart could lead to price jumps, store closures, CEO says

[e7alr]

Sounds like a fine robes defense.

[Samm]

@Camp

The article made the distinction of the last two in the city limits closing while there are a dozen in the greater metro…suburban…Portland market.

Makes it more challenging for the drug addled shoplifters to get to the other locations.

It isn’t good news no matter how its spun.

A search on Google maps shows three in city limits. Two in the middle of SE Portland off highway 84 and one near the I5 Bridge across the Columbia. I expect the two in SE Portland are the ones being closed.

Oh wait … today I see another Supercenter on the northeast side on highway 30. There are also several neighborhood stores that are essentially grocery stores.

[Camp]

The actual city lines don’t interest me so much. I would trust you over the published article.

Portland used to be so nice.

[Samm]

@Rodeo

@e7alr

Portland’s downtown district has lost a net 2,692 businesses since 2019. Portland has more than enough population to support 2 Walmarts,

I’m a native Oregonian…I love the state and love what Portland should be…very few cities have the opportunity based on their location, natural beauty, available natural resources to be what Portland could be.

Sadly…decades of liberal democrat stupidity have destroyed that possibility.

And it happens in a remarkably short period of time. Twenty years ago, I loved going to Portland.

The deterioration of Seattle is exactly the same. I rue the fact that both of my daughters are now living in that cesspool … or rather close enough (Kent and Ballard) that they can smell it.

[Samm]

@Rodeo

@Liberty323

It’s a shame! Beautiful state

It is a shame…it’s disgusting…

You wanna know what the liberal left and democrats have in store for America. The evidence is right before your eyes in places like Portland and so many other lib run cities and states.

It’s not just the Walmarts in Portland or the Walgreens in San Fran, it’s the kids walking thru homeless camps and drug dens going to schools, it’s the people and businesses moving out. In Oregon 11 or 13 I forget which rural eastern and southern counties want to join Idaho.

Liberal democrats destroy what they touch.

And when they kill their host city, they metastasize to another city and kill it too.

And it’s not just big cities. They have now invaded the little conservative town of Bend and turned into the “Boulder of Oregon.”

[Gaius]

@Samm

And when they kill their host city, they metastasize to another city and kill it too.

Maybe the Snake Plissken movies had the right idea.

[WuWei]

@Orygun

Covid caused

Covid hysteria-induced restrictions

[GrandWazoo]

@WuWei

What stores do west coast people use?

I can only say that K-Mart made a big splash on the west coast. And it was obvious that WalMart targeted them by buying property as close to a K-Mart as possible and edging them out as well as the mom and pop stores in the area. The politicians in those counties made it a big deal to make WalMart the villain.
People on the west coast do want the likes of WalMart. But they have been conditioned to hate them over the years. A lot of folks on the west coast do not realize that the straggly that WalMart used was pretty damn effective.

[W_and_C]

@Samm

@Rodeo

@e7alr

Portland’s downtown district has lost a net 2,692 businesses since 2019. Portland has more than enough population to support 2 Walmarts,

I’m a native Oregonian…I love the state and love what Portland should be…very few cities have the opportunity based on their location, natural beauty, available natural resources to be what Portland could be.

Sadly…decades of liberal democrat stupidity have destroyed that possibility.

And it happens in a remarkably short period of time. Twenty years ago, I loved going to Portland.

The deterioration of Seattle is exactly the same. I rue the fact that both of my daughters are now living in that cesspool … or rather close enough (Kent and Ballard) that they can smell it.

Ballard is a neighborhood in Seattle, not a suburb; and a very good part of the city, IMO. I’ll be there today in a few hours.

[W_and_C]

I don’t think there’s any doubt that the closures are related to theft; it’s not a partisan issue to me at all.

Walmart Set to Close All Stores in Portland amid Record-Breaking Retail Theft

[Orygun]

@W_and_C

Ballard is a neighborhood in Seattle, not a suburb; and a very good part of the city, IMO. I’ll be there today in a few hours.

I grew up in Seattle 40 years ago. Ballard was the down and out boring part of Seattle. Now it’s homes cost a fortune and the neighborhood is packed with fine dining, nightlife, cool bars.

Things change, some for the better, some for worse. I do miss a couple of the dive bars in Ballard that upscaled.

[W_and_C]

@Orygun

@W_and_C

Ballard is a neighborhood in Seattle, not a suburb; and a very good part of the city, IMO. I’ll be there today in a few hours.

I grew up in Seattle 40 years ago. Ballard was the down and out boring part of Seattle. Now it’s homes cost a fortune and the neighborhood is packed with fine dining, nightlife, cool bars.

Things change, some for the better, some for worse. I do miss a couple of the dive bars in Ballard that upscaled.

Love Ballard… Scandinavian vibe and a whole strip of cool bars/restaurants around Market street. Not to mention Golden Gardens beach in the summer is so much fun.

[STODR]

They did.

“Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been,” McMillon told CNBC. Prices “will be higher and/or stores will close,” the executive added if Oregon authorities failed to address rampant shoplifting.

Walmart Set to Close All Stores in Portland amid Record-Breaking Retail Theft