Bloomberg is running a story how police departments around the country are getting bogged down with needing a permanent presence at Walmart
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
On the positive side, this seems to make Walmart stores an aggregator of criminal activity by being an easy target.
The Obama administration is rolling out new rules requiring stores that accept SNAP (Food Stamps/EBT) to pass the Michelle Obama test for selling “healthy” food or be kicked out of the food stamp program. Convenience stores are complaining the loudest, but if Walmart refused and stopped accepting Food Stamps, I think their crime problem would vanish overnight.
Of course, it would also end their viability as a business.
Has anyone yet challenged Hillary on her role in creating Walmart when she sat on the Board of Directors when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas and Sam Walton was running the company?
I think someone needs to correlate crime at WalMart with ethnicity of the location. But… that might be deemed racist. I know a few stores that had to close in San Antonio, TX because of the location. Hint…one was on MLK Drive, the other one on Zarzamora Ave.
I generally have noticed that police cars outside Walmart are a common sight. Maybe Congress should write a law allowing Walmart to operate its own private prison system.
I’ll raise the ante of your theory and propose a correlation with the ethnicity of the checkout clerks.
Walmart just reported better than expected earnings. A writer at Bloomberg floats the idea that Walmart doing well is a sign that the economy is falling apart. People are eating out less shopping at Walmart to save money. No mention of the minimum wage issue, Target embracing transgender bathrooms or Walmart’s Pickup service.
Walmart Pickup has shown to have issues with giving me the wrong products. I’ve decided next time I’m going to try Harris Teeter, even with their higher prices… Either that, or the Walmart down in Tega Cay, SC. It’s a couple miles further away, but very different demographics.
I know a corner in Baltimore that lost a pharmacy a couple years ago.
Officer related shooting at Walmart in Lenoir NC a few days ago
http://www.wbtv.com/story/32783010/surveillance-photos-released-in-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-at-walmart
Lenoir is about an hour Northwest of Charlotte
If I shop at WalMart I usually do it no later than 9AM on MON or TUE. Will never go to the store after 3PM, will never even drive in the vicinity of the store past 9PM!
I hadn’t gotten around to mentioning it yet, but a few days ago a guy was murdered in the parking lot of the Walmart where I was using the pickup service. Police got a call around 9 PM of gunshots, but only found an empty car. I think the dead guy was dumped off at the hospital. They arrested the alleged shooter.
Drudge linked to a story about an experiment in Baltimore where a Cessna aircraft flies around all day recording everything (100 MB/Sec) with a real time feed also available. After the fact, when a crime has happened, they can follow the participants forward and backward from the point of the crime. As I watch crimes in Charlotte, they seem to find the suspects immediately even if it is a needle in a haystack. My guess is they have an extensive cell phone tracking system and a network of license place readers and cameras.
Unrelated, while looking for that story, I learned there was a fatal car accident involving an 80 year old woman turning in front of a truck about a block from where I live. I hadn’t heard the emergency responsders which is a little bit odd. Maybe I was asleep
The suspects accused of shooting the guy in the Walmart parking lot are named Kedar Aziz Muhammad and Ibrahim Nathaniel Muhammad.
http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/195261918-story
Their faces are similar enough they might be related. I doubt they eat grits and sausage gravy for breakfast
No hablo espanol?
¿Donde esta el baño?
It is a disinformation campaign started by Democrats since Hillary left their corporate board. Walmart is making it easy for the police so they don’t have to look all over town for crime when it is in a more concentrated geography.
The fact remains, most of the shooters at Walmarts are salad.
You’re only saying that because you hate green
Unrelated to crime, when I went to start my next pickup order, there are huge price cuts on a lot of items. This is very peculiar. Bi-Lo similarly seems to be cutting prices. Maybe the export market for US food has dried up. Maybe Walmart wants people to be happy at election time. Don’t know.
Bloomberg has an interesting story about the 400% increase in the epipen shortly after the government mandated schools to keep them around when a student gets scared by seeing a picture of a peanut. The CEO of the company is the daughter of Senator Manchen (D-WV)
we had a survey with the pic of a peanut or ‘Mr. Peanut’
Lenoir NC use to be a busy furniture town, Berhardt, Broyhill, Bassett Thomasville;
that all had factories there. there is a truck drivin school there right off 321
One of those Aldi stores is in Lenoir.
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