Current Events > Community leaders protest Walmart closing stores in 4 Chicago cities.

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AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

When you cant maintain profit in a city with a high population, well things arent going too good

https://youtu.be/-0UPhZk7mG0

So now we like megacorps?

KillaHarkan posted...

If theyre going to walk out on us, were going to walk out on them, said Pfleger.

I like how they got this in there twice

Pas5wordFAQ posted...

@badjay
I think some of the shrinkage is stuff being hard to find. I think most of the shrinkage is the corporation sending the store stuff it does not want. There is no obvious relation between what sells at a Walmart and what they get sent.

I do not think a manager is allowed to to tell corporate that they sent him unsellable merchandise because the creed is a good manager can sell anything.

Edit My common sense tells me that corporate sends stuff that never arrived.

Or the warehouses that purposely send expired product just so the store has to deal with it instead.

Compsognathus posted...

These aren't mutually exclusive. Walmart enters a market, wipes out all of its competitors by offering prices they don't have the logistical capabilities to compete with all while the money spent there disproportionately leaves the area. This is why people don't want Walmart in the area. That's valid.

But once Walmart is in the area and has done its thing, it's now like the only retail/grocery in the area, since they wiped out their competition. So if they leave, there is just no retail or grocery left. That is a valid reason for a community protesting Walmart leaving an area.

Yes online shopping exist, but it has a lot of its own price and time issues.

What a load of shit. There are two Walmarts here and there are plenty of other stores around.

The Subway inside the Chatham Walmart got 5 days notice his lease was ending after 5 years???

It wasnt just shoppers caught off guard. Aziz Rupshi ran the Subway inside the Chatham Walmart for almost five years and said the news came as a shock.
Youve put in your hard work, effort, into this location, through the pandemic, through the riots, through everything, and then somebody to come just tell you in five days youve got to go, Rupshi said.

https://news.wttw.com/2023/04/13/demonstrators-threaten-walmart-boycott-over-chicago-store-closures

I am having earnest discussions about this because this closure impacts where we live.

Walmart did not get to chose it's original locations so now it is closing the locations it opened just to get into the city.

Originally Walmart had to fight to get into the city.

CobraGT posted...

I am having earnest discussions about this because this closure impacts where we live.

Walmart did not get to chose it's original locations so now it is closing the locations it opened just to get into the city.

Originally Walmart had to fight to get into the city.

They could leave all the stores open.

Revelation34 posted...

Or the warehouses that purposely send expired product just so the store has to deal with it instead.

I saw this and the post you quoted and these are possibilities I hadn't considered or known about. How often does sending expired product or forcing a franchisee to hold unsellable product happen?

If it does again that's part of the number crunching that nobody has access to and we can only ever speculate. I'm inclined to believe that these DO happen, but I have no clue about how MUCH it happens. Same with it's obvious that Walmart steals time, but we will never know HOW much Walmart steals time from its employees. These are statistics we can't really readily access. Although I'm sure they all do happen, but I can't grasp the extent of how much it happens to impact the numbers self reported.

Just learned we lost one in our city too v

https://reddit.com/r/Albuquerque/comments/12pih0v/local_residents_demand_new_grocery_store_after/

Nothing further about the boycott. It is prolematical. The boycott has to be limited to locations Walmart does not want to close.

Hey market researchers! What is the best way to boycott Walmart so as to encourage them to reopen?

badjay posted...

I saw this and the post you quoted and these are possibilities I hadn't considered or known about. How often does sending expired product or forcing a franchisee to hold unsellable product happen?

If it does again that's part of the number crunching that nobody has access to and we can only ever speculate. I'm inclined to believe that these DO happen, but I have no clue about how MUCH it happens. Same with it's obvious that Walmart steals time, but we will never know HOW much Walmart steals time from its employees. These are statistics we can't really readily access. Although I'm sure they all do happen, but I can't grasp the extent of how much it happens to impact the numbers self reported.

I don't know. Both are owned by Walmart but what's supposed to happen is the warehouse is responsible for the expired product which would put the blame on them instead of the store it is delivered to.

Revelation34 posted...

I don't know. Both are owned by Walmart but what's supposed to happen is the warehouse is responsible for the expired product which would put the blame on them instead of the store it is delivered to.

Maybe pissing off the warehouse is not feasible.

CobraGT posted...

Maybe pissing off the warehouse is not feasible.

Nah there's a way to put the blame on them still but it takes far too long since the system is fucked.

AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

Just learned we lost one in our city too v

https://reddit.com/r/Albuquerque/comments/12pih0v/local_residents_demand_new_grocery_store_after/

R.I.P. to your store.

I wonder how much exactly they could cut from bonuses to keep these locations open.

Revelation34 posted...

I wonder how much exactly they could cut from bonuses to keep these locations open.

Walmart is not a charity. If a store is losing money, it no longer has reason to exist.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Walmart is not a charity. If a store is losing money, it no longer has reason to exist.

I doubt they were even losing money.

whateveroh posted...

Those are neighborhoods not cities.

This

Hundreds of kids go on a random violence spree across the city because they're bored.
The community: *silence*
Wal Mart closes because of too much theft
The community: *outrage*

Revelation34 posted...

I doubt they were even losing money.

I doubt you have any say in whether Walmart decides it's not worth it for them to keep those stores open.

ChrisReeve posted...

I doubt you have any say in whether Walmart decides it's not worth it for them to keep those stores open.

No shit.

Apparently, one of those Walmarts has always been losing money, since back then, they were more about just getting the Walmart name out there when they first arrived.

The thefts and stuff just exacerbated the losses and they left.

As someone who does work at Walmart. Nobody in here actually has any idea what they're talking about.

Walmart opened way too many stores and many of these stores are dumpster fires. So, Walmart is closing stores that are high shrink/poor sales. Believe it or not in big cities Walmart struggles to keep up with other stores. Combine that with high shrink and your store is costing them money.

Revelation34 posted...

I doubt they were even losing money.

So what, they're closing these stores out of spite and didn't want to make money then?

TC is toast BTW. Not surprising considering some of the takes in this topic

R.I.P. tc

The amount of theft was probably too high, or there were too many stores and they decided to close some of them.

I dont know why the community is so upset when this means small businesses can flourish again since walmart is gone.

Theyre closing cause theyre racist or something

This will give a chance for small businesses to open up shop in a thriving big city.

Nobody would fuck that up for them.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

I dont know why the community is so upset when this means small businesses can flourish again since walmart is gone.

Priere posted...

This will give a chance for small businesses to open up shop in a thriving big city.

Nobody would fuck that up for them.

Are smaller businesses in these communities more, or less, likely to get robbed?

deoxxys posted...

Not Detroit but Walmart being ransacked:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3px8F7/

What a disgrace.

Tenaku posted...

Are smaller businesses in these communities more, or less, likely to get robbed?

Thieves dont care.

I remember I went to jobcorps in a small mountain town and theyve been banned for years from visiting the small shops because the excessive amount of theft. About the only place we where allowed to go once a week if we signed up was Walmart XD. Then a large amount of people would brag about whatever they managed to finesse lol.

Revelation34 posted...

I don't know. Both are owned by Walmart but what's supposed to happen is the warehouse is responsible for the expired product which would put the blame on them instead of the store it is delivered to.

You and the quote from the first page are so wrong it's not even funny.

Shrink in this context means theft. The warehouses aren't sending a bunch of expired product (to the tune of 10s on million a year). Also, as far as perishables go...a large chunk of them come on vendor trucks. A lot of product on the grocery side isn't handled by Walmart at all.

As far as the person from the first page talking about "not getting what they wanted and hard to find." That's just...no.

I was a vendor in Walmarts for 14 years and now do logistics/planning for my company still delivering to Walmart. I've worked in 30 Walmarts across IL, Iowa, and MO.

whateveroh posted...

What the hell is "four Chicago cities"?

Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, and Chicago?

Anyone that expects me to have any sympathy for theft from Walmart needs to fix their values tbqh. I'd be more in favor of forcing Walmart to stay open and eat the costs, fair repayment for their harm to communities and wage theft.

This is what happens when people know criminals and don't try to hold them accountable and steer them away from that lifestyle. The entire community can end up suffering because of a couple of people's greed. Walmart is super rich so it's not like some of the theft hurts them much in the end, but when the sustainability of populations of entire communities are at the mercy of companies like them you have play ball and do what they want. Goes to show how much the people of this country and our prosperity relies on huge corporations.

Number090684 posted...

This is what happens when people know criminals and don't try to hold them accountable and steer them away from that lifestyle. The entire community can end up suffering because of a couple of people's greed.

Amusing how you're blaming small time criminals here and not Walmart for the massive harm they do to communities

RuneterranSnap posted...

Amusing how you're blaming small time criminals here and not Walmart for the massive harm they do to communities

Blame Capitalism if you don't like it because it's why things are the way they are.

Number090684 posted...

Blame Capitalism if you don't like it because it's why things are the way they are.

No ill blame the company that actually made the decisions to destroy communities, abuse workers, and steal wages.

RuneterranSnap posted...

No ill blame the company that actually made the decisions to destroy communities, abuse workers, and steal wages.

That's alot of companies. Again blame Capitalism. Walmart is a symptom.

Number090684 posted...

That's alot of companies. Again blame Capitalism. Walmart is a symptom.

Yes. I blame them too. When we fix capitalism I still want to see those companies and the ones behind them held accountable for the damage they've done.

Dark-Summoner posted...

You and the quote from the first page are so wrong it's not even funny.

Shrink in this context means theft. The warehouses aren't sending a bunch of expired product (to the tune of 10s on million a year). Also, as far as perishables go...a large chunk of them come on vendor trucks. A lot of product on the grocery side isn't handled by Walmart at all.

As far as the person from the first page talking about "not getting what they wanted and hard to find." That's just...no.

I was a vendor in Walmarts for 14 years and now do logistics/planning for my company still delivering to Walmart. I've worked in 30 Walmarts across IL, Iowa, and MO.

I didn't know vendors sent products in meat and produce cases because the warehouse workers dropped the original boxes.

Instead of blaming walmart and capitalism blame the thieves who neither this topic nor their own communities hold accountable for their actions.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Instead of blaming walmart and capitalism blame the thieves who neither this topic nor their own communities hold accountable for their actions.

I dont know their situation, what they're stealing, or why. So kinda hard to hold them accountable.

Priere posted...

Nobody would fuck that up for them.

idk about that. anyone that takes place will get the same problems.
it doesn't go away by itself.

even if another ralph's/albertsons or something pops up.

RuneterranSnap posted...

I dont know their situation, what they're stealing, or why. So kinda hard to hold them accountable.

You do not steal, it does not matter their situation or whatever bullshit excuses they have. Thieves need to be held accountable for taking things that are not theirs.

Why did I engage with Riku like they're actually a compassionate human being

These people can get jobs and they are not stealing food to eat when you hear about these walmart thieves.

Stop feeling sorry for these criminals, and no it is not being compassionate when you enable or support crime.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

they are not stealing food to eat when you hear about these walmart thieves.

Yeah, I feel like there's this big misconception about what and why a lot of people steal. There's this long history of movies and shows portraying thieves as down-on-their-luck people with good hearts who just need enough bread to survive and feed their kids.

Unfortunately, that's not the reality.

Now they can build their own Walmart.