Walmart, Home Depot Sound the Alarm: State-Tolerated Mass-Looting Is Getting Worse and Worse

I'm surprised Woke Target would admit that people who take their goods through diverse ways of acquisition such as theft are a problem at all.

But the problem is so big now that even the wokest of the woke corporations has to begin objecting to blue jurisdictions legalizing crime.

Inventory shrinkage -- the loss of items to retail theft, organized crime, damage, vendor fraud, and other factors -- is still a major headache for US retailers. At least, that was a common thread heard on recent earnings calls from Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), Walmart (WMT), and other large retailers last week.
On Wednesday, Target CEO Brian Cornell said the retailer is up against "an unacceptable amount of retail theft and organized retail crime." Last November, Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said the disappearance of merchandise caused a $400 million hit to the retailer's gross profit margin for the year.
"Shrink in the second quarter remained consistent with our expectations but well above the sustainable level where we expect to operate over time," Cornell said in the company's Q2 earnings call.
Walmart US CEO John Furner echoed that sentiment, saying: "Shrink has increased a bit this year. It increased last year. It's uneven across the country."
Retail theft weighed profit margins too. Just ask Home Depot.
"In the second quarter, our gross margin was 33%, a decrease of 8 basis points from the second quarter last year, primarily driven by pressure from shrink," Home Depot CFO Richard McPhail said on the earnings call. "Shrink has been a consistent pressure over the last several quarters and even the last few years. It's something we're tackling every day."
According to the National Retail Federation's (NRF) National Retail Security Survey, retail shrink was a nearly $100 billion problem for the industry as of 2021, the last year data was collected. That cost more than doubled from $45.2 billion in 2015.
"I can tell you that never before have I seen what I'm seeing today," David Johnston, NRF vice president of asset protection and retail operations, told Yahoo Finance. "The retailers are not crying wolf. They are highlighting a major issue out there."
It's not just shoplifting -- organized retail crime and employee theft have become growing concerns, according to the NRF.
Violence is a bigger issue too: According to Cornell, Target stores saw a 120% increase in theft incidents involving violence or threats of violence in the first five months of 2023.

It's true that these woke corporations have other reasons for their woes. Target is facing a boycott, for example.

Dick's Sporting Goods alienated half the country with its gun-grabber-friendly policies. But it too is whining that their beloved Democrats are feeding them to the criminal wolves.

The New York Post:

Dick's Sporting Goods on Tuesday blamed "organized retail crime" for sinking its quarterly profits by nearly 25% as the company slashed its full-year earnings outlook.
The popular retail chain reported a 23% drop in profits in the second quarter across its more than 700 stores nationwide -- despite sales rising 3.6%.
Dick's attributed the losses to "organized retail crime and our ability to effectively manage inventory shrink," an industry term used to describe stolen or lost merchandise.
...
Dick's share price plunged more than 20% after Tuesday’s opening bell.

Here's some of Dick's post-George-Floyd Summer-of-Love BLM-Batsignalling in February 2021:

Many first-time Black achievements are happening within the sports industry as diversity, equity, and inclusion become a priority. It’s essential that we not only share these stories of triumph, but we work towards a future where equality is the norm. #MoreFirsts pic.twitter.com/8qxWBj0OXD
— DICK'S Sporting Goods (@DICKS) February 1, 2021

I guess the wolves don't really care if you support their agenda or not.

Posted by: Ace at 06:04 PM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:05 PM (VaV9x)

2 I want companies to simply pull out of places like California completely.

That would entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 05:05 PM (LvTSG)

3 Yeet yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:05 PM (VaV9x)

4 up top again!

Posted by: DanMan at August 22, 2023 05:05 PM (wcu+j)

5 Go woke, get broke seems to have diverse meanings!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:06 PM (5Vde1)

6 I guess the wolves don't really care if you support their agenda or not.

=======

Organized crime isn't all that interested in social media virtue signaling? They are instead interested in crime and scaring off those who would stop them?

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

7 when the store closed
I was happy to see my town go Dickless.

Piss on em

Posted by: 2Dogs at August 22, 2023 05:07 PM (og5mY)

8 Somebody in tonight's debate might want to mention this...

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:07 PM (+T4jH)

9 Yeet?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 22, 2023 05:07 PM (GzDfN)

10 I'm confused - aren't the thieves all Very Important Stakeholders?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2023 05:07 PM (AcWfM)

11 Just ask Home Depot.

"In the second quarter, our gross margin was 33%, a decrease of 8 basis points from the second quarter last year, primarily driven by pressure from shrink,

*counts on fingers...* That is an ASSLOAD of state-sponsored theft.

Posted by: t-bird at August 22, 2023 05:08 PM (e2onP)

12 Is this where I'm supposed to stand up for the corporations?

Cause I got a sammich in the oven.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at August 22, 2023 05:08 PM (MITUm)

13 I know Walmart, contribute another $1M to BLM so its founder can buy another house. 🤣

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:08 PM (NLZCv)

14 Too bad, so sad.

Anyway...

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 05:08 PM (sXoqN)

15 Police states usually have lower crime.

We really did get the fucked up timeline.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (cmney)

16 First online shopping put a major hurt on bricks and mortar, now come the flash mobs...

how long will bricks and mortar be a viable alternative?

Posted by: kallisto at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (zX78/)

17 In before the Nelson Muntz laugh comment

Posted by: In Before Guy at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (awjlR)

18 "Organized retail crime"? What, has the Corleone Family taken to pilfering from Target? The ghost of Sam Giancana is directing Outfit poltergeists to loot Walmart?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (J2vNu)

19 To the woke retailers: "Tough Shit"

Embrace the suck. Y'all championed this stupidity, reap the rewards assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (Q4IgG)

20 Isn't "shrinkage" a penis problem?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (FuPH4)

21 I have an idea!

Stores being flash-mob-robbed could light a special signal on their roof, and send a light into the sky (maybe a "Bat" shaped light), and then hope a superhero comes from out of nowhere, and saves them from the icky yutes.

No one else will help them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (5Vde1)

22 12 Is this where I'm supposed to stand up for the corporations?

—

It is yiur duty as a patriotic American to do just that, sir. And also fight like hell to make sure the CEO of Walmart pays no more than 10% of his income in taxes. Anything less and you are a communist.
- GOP + most conservatives

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (NLZCv)

23 I witnessed it myself . In a Walgreens. Some feral calmly took what he wanted and then just walked out.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (+T4jH)

24 Yeet?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 22, 2023

***
Reet and complete!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (J2vNu)

25 What you will see is these stores leaving the problem blue zones. Then they will complain about how unfair it is that those meanie corporations left their utopia. FFO.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (aGVn1)

26 20 Isn't "shrinkage" a penis problem?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (FuPH4)

It's just a euphemism here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (cmney)

27 Just remember: if you shop home depot, target, or walmart, you are subsidizing the looters.

Posted by: Tom at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (bjV9z)

28
Brought forward from last post:

313
Bidenomics is spreading through retailers around here. Just today I have seen numerous shelves with barriers to removing items thereon in a Home Depot and a Walgreens Drug store in the suburbs outside Wilmington, DE.

As I do not consume local news media, I do not know to what these are responses, but I suppose it wasn't good.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 22, 2023 05:10 PM (xG4kz)

29 Nurse, didja hear Hi-Point named their new pistol Yeet Cannon?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 22, 2023 05:11 PM (G0bxm)

30 Isn't "shrinkage" a penis problem?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (FuPH4)
==============
so, if I understand your idea, you're suggesting a little testosterone boost could help solve the problem?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:11 PM (5Vde1)

31 the only answer is Rooftop Koreans but I think they're illegal in most states.

Or stick-wielding Sikhs

Posted by: kallisto at August 22, 2023 05:11 PM (zX78/)

32 Stolen election have consequences.

https://twitter.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/
1638539484852617219?s=20

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at August 22, 2023 05:11 PM (0q+t6)

33 Seems like there's a simple remedy: close stores in jurisdictions where there is no police protection or prosecution. If the stores don't, then don't expect any hangwringing from me. Make sensible business decisions. Or don't. Whatever.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (ppBhU)

34 Police states usually have lower crime.

We really did get the fucked up timeline.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2023 05:09 PM (cmney)

We’re a police state banana Republic. But we have neither cool tropical beaches or low crime.

Wus up wit dat?

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (NLZCv)

35 I think I see a yuuuge market opportunity

Posted by: Roof Asian Security at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (5Vde1)

36 Walmart bought a big bag of Dicks

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (us2H3)

37
But when the smaller retailers notice 87 thousand IRS agents falsely accusing them of bad books who will bitch?

Oh, and a cashless retail environments pretty much eliminate the wheel and deal anymore so eat it, peasant.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (j4U/Z)

38 Most higher end stores in my area have off duty police guarding the exits.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (+T4jH)

39 so, if I understand your idea, you're suggesting a little testosterone boost could help solve the problem?
-------------
How do say -- the bingo!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:12 PM (FuPH4)

40 Bidenomics, baby!

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (+T4jH)

41 Jim Cramer. Go long on Dicks!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (aGVn1)

42 Gee, what would happen if academics & media suddenly decided to lay unwarranted adulation on one demographic and venomous hatred on another? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (IG4Id)

43 "It's uneven across the country".

Like the areas that don't tolerate it and punish it have less of it? How non progressive of them. Maybe Walmart and Target need to just have more green space behind their buildings, or maybe basketball courts and people will use their energy there instead.

Posted by: Msm at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (KuG1T)

44 *adds Amazon shares*

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (MITUm)

45 This is like to Hawaii fires. Democrats will lose zero support there. Every corporation will fully embrace Biden and Democrats going forward.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:13 PM (NLZCv)

46 Newsflash: Dick's have Shrinkage -- Blue States Hardest Hit

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (FuPH4)

47 It turns out that the "listless vessels" comment some here got so exercised about was actually due to a deceptive edit by the media. I know, shocking.

https://tinyurl.com/27w4treh

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (I/Qkd)

48 The chains tell their employees not to engage when someone is stealing because the chains don't want get to sued if the thief gets hurt. They'll even fire employees who do try and engage. And then they act surprised when more people steal.

Also, "Dick's" is an appropriately named company.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (Bd6X8)

49 Target lost half a billion due to theft in 2022. They expect to lose $1.3 billion in 2023 due to theft.

https://is.gd/gchhB8

This is unsustainable. I am thrilled they're going down, but what happens next? Will this continue until we all have to drive 45 minutes to a store, wait in line for hours, employees behind bullet proof glass shove your bags through a sally port door, and you have to have armed guards escort you to your car?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (R38qh)

50 Unless it stops ESG financiers from extending advantageous rates for woke it won't matter.

It technically shouldn't matter per fiduciary duty.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (xEgLq)

51 Special. Very special. No, really, really special.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (UVrop)

52 Hi Bander!
You were missed on the art thread this morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (C/VHT)

53 The security guards will stand by, arms akimbo and watch the shoplifters steal.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (MeG8a)

54 It turns out that the "listless vessels" comment some here got so exercised about was actually due to a deceptive edit by the media. I know, shocking.

But at least it lets you know who the prefer as the GOP standard bearer in '24. Gee, I wonder why that might be.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:15 PM (I/Qkd)

55 This is unsustainable. I am thrilled they're going down, but what happens next? Will this continue until we all have to drive 45 minutes to a store, wait in line for hours, employees behind bullet proof glass shove your bags through a sally port door, and you have to have armed guards escort you to your car?
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (R38qh)

It's this or lose competitive financing.

They have to choose this.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:15 PM (xEgLq)

56 How's looting situation in Florida?

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:15 PM (+T4jH)

57 >The chains tell their employees not to engage when someone is stealing because the chains don't want get to sued if the thief gets hurt. They'll even fire employees who do try and engage.

sounds like Kroger policy

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 05:15 PM (Jd6f3)

58
Oh no! The whole of California may become a Target, Walmart, and Home Depot Desert!!!

Anyway...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 05:16 PM (QzZeQ)

59 Rampant crime, drug use and rejection of law and order in general cannot go on forever.

The stores losing money will eventually close and then there will be nothing to steal in these neighborhoods.

The criminals will have to move their criminal
Enterprises to the suburbs.

Maybe then, average LIVs will pay attention and stop voting for criminal to have more rights than they do.

I won’t hold my breath.

Posted by: Czech Chick at August 22, 2023 05:16 PM (0rsFX)

60 This is unsustainable. I am thrilled they're going down, but what happens next? Will this continue until we all have to drive 45 minutes to a store, wait in line for hours, employees behind bullet proof glass shove your bags through a sally port door, and you have to have armed guards escort you to your car?
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (R38qh)

Where I live this is not an issue. No armed guards, no locked products on the shelves.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:16 PM (NLZCv)

61 The security guards will stand by, arms akimbo and watch the shoplifters steal.

I'll have you know that I've never allowed my arms to be akimbo. Discipline is my name.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:16 PM (I/Qkd)

62 Don't worry. The revenue from the red states will be confiscated to cover the blue shithole losses.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (BdMk6)

63 I would like to put in a prayer request please.

In about 15 minutes (5:30 EST) my son is having an interview with the fellow who handles hiring tutors for the campus tutoring center. FenSon has an excellent academic record a,nd I think he'd be good at tutoring and appreciate if he were helping someone, so if you could please pray that if it's God's will that the interviewer see his good points and son put his best foot forward. It would help with tuition costs too. Thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (NpWq6)

64 Why are they paying security guards?

Fear of nazis?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (xEgLq)

65 Going to see more and more a turnover to online.

Brick and mortar already under a heavy burden.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (dWjpk)

66 Let's take a look at who's doing the stealing. Are they Trump supporters?

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

67 The besmirching has begun.

Ramaswamy says he wants the truth about Saudi intelligence involvement in 9/11, to aid the families lawsuit against the Saudi government that is soon to go to trial, so the WaPo is now calling him a "9/11 truther".

The Propaganda Press is slowly wheeling into election shape.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (5Vde1)

68 Shit like breakage, misplacement, and supply chain breakdowns have gotten worse, and will continue to. Inevitable. But the rampant theft and vagrancy shutting down major corporate enterprises in the middle of big cities? That's new and fun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (0FoWg)

69 How's looting situation in Florida?

Not too bad. All the vessels there are listless.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (I/Qkd)

70 Please stop. You're making me all misty-eyed.

Posted by: Tick-Tock the Croc at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (VsUo2)

71 Ace, please don’t ever call these criminal vermin “wolves.” It’s an insult to wolves. Wolves are among the most regal and beautiful of animals. They are intelligent, social, and despite their rep only kill for food or defense. They are probably the most successful land predator who ever walked the earth. These criminals rank below diseased subway rats. Wolves would despise them and sue you for slander if they were compared to them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (GRbpm)

72 The chains tell their employees not to engage when someone is stealing

In fairness, I don't really see minimum-wage restockers and cashiers and whatnot as having signed up for Fight Club on behalf of their corporate employers. My own business? I'd play Mike Tyson's Punch Out over it. Some corporation's business? We'd need to have a word about my compensation.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (ppBhU)

73 Well when the blue hell holes give you a $700 limit worth of stuff before they even prosecute, what did you expect?Even then it's a slap on the wrist. The stores are powerless because if they fart in the general direction of a feral shoplifter they get sued into oblivion too. Simple solution. Pull out of areas like this. Go to places where they have law and order and while you won't eliminate it 100%. You will end alot of it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (aGVn1)

74 The criminals will have to move their criminal
Enterprises to the suburbs.

this is already a thing

Posted by: kallisto at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (zX78/)

75 If you can't find excitement and joy in video showing dozens of youths walking into these corporations and redefining shopping, well.

You haven't a pulse.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (MITUm)

76 Trump completely pussied out during BLM.

Republicans enjoyed a huge advantage on being tough on crime, and then Trump decided to make his presidency about releasing a huge amount of federal inmates.

Posted by: Equate at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (PGboh)

77 Bidenomics is working so well that people "have" to steal stuff

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (bs+z0)

78 Comrade Kaprugina said it best.

Posted by: OCBill at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (+7xwZ)

79 Ace, please don’t ever call these criminal vermin “wolves.” It’s an insult to wolves. Wolves are among the most regal and beautiful of animals.

You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (ppBhU)

80 Stores with flash-mob theft problems need to install catwalks up near their high ceilings.

The going Horde Rate to provide "security" (while equipped with suppressed Ruger 10/22 & sub-sonic ammo, shall be $50/hr.

With $500 Bounties to be paid on every active flash-mobster pelt nailed to the floor. (Sighting Optic mounted to top of rifle, GO-PRO to document the shot was actually taken on an active THEIF, mounted so as to not interfere.)

One of us could work at Anna Puma's wallymart, and I'd suggest splitting bounties if Anna would work as a "beater", moving Active Theives into your field of fire!

It's far past time that society returns to truly awful punishment for thievery. Some outlaws were just plain born to hang, and that's all there is to it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (e6UQI)

81

Hope.

The last time I was in Walmart the customer base seemed to stoned to steal.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)

82 Hi Bander!
You were missed on the art thread this morning.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (C/VHT)
=================
There were breasts!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (5Vde1)

83 Sucks to be you, Dicks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (guGkK)

84 *waves to Jim*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (sXoqN)

85 Target lost half a billion due to theft in 2022. They expect to lose $1.3 billion in 2023 due to theft.

https://is.gd/gchhB8

This is unsustainable.

And yet their executive stock options say otherwise...

Posted by: ESG Funds at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (amJF4)

86 It's this or lose competitive financing.

They have to choose this.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023

***
I'd think they're losing as much in looting and other theft as they'd get with the woke financing. And I'd think the woke financiers might realize this is a losing strategy.

On the other hand, I'm sane.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (J2vNu)

87 Dick's Sporting Goods alienated half the country with its gun-grabber-friendly policies. But it too is whining that their beloved Democrats are feeding them to the criminal wolves.

They complain about "shrink", but as far as I can tell, they are not actually naming the Democrats or the policies that are directly causing this mysterious problem.

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (eHovo)

88 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (NpWq6)

done

Posted by: kallisto at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (zX78/)

89 Thanks so much!

You're welcome, Fen.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (Bd6X8)

90 > We’re a police state banana Republic. But we have neither cool tropical beaches or low crime.

Wus up wit dat?
Posted by: Montec
___________

Banana Republic:
- Tanks in the streets of the capitol city, which is on fire
- Massive civilian unrest and rioting
- Politicians running for their lives, many not making it
- A mustachioed strongman with a cool beret and a sidearm

Sadly, we have none of those. Sadly, we're not a banana republic. But, perhaps there's hope.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

91 Yeet?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 22, 2023 05:07 PM

It's this kind of questioning of the first comment and election results, but mostly the first comment, that causes Ace to be disappointed in us, as evidenced by the way Big Penguin was able to slip content surreptitiously into last night's Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (a3Q+t)

92 I am thrilled they're going down, but what happens next?
Posted by: bonhomme

Big Boxes go online only. Small biz's B/K by the thousands. Central Bank Currencies are deployed for 'dah poooor' as UBI and wedged into everyone's bank accounts by default.

Trans-national Super State is what happens.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (IG4Id)

93 What I don't understand about Target is why our side only just started boycotting them. The went perv on men in girls' dressing rooms years ago. And I stopped patronizing them then.

I don't recall just when, but it was in Richmond, and it's 3 years since we left there. (We're now south of Richmond, so we're OK.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (brAQZ)

94 If Target and Dicks choose to have stores in Los Angeles and Seattle, we’ll play stupid games win stupid prizes. The rampant theft isn’t happening in exurban Dallas.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (NLZCv)

95 I'd think they're losing as much in looting and other theft as they'd get with the woke financing. And I'd think the woke financiers might realize this is a losing strategy.

And it isn't just the thieves that are costing them. I doubt the average shopper wants to be around the feral element, so will shop elsewhere, even if it's online.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (I/Qkd)

96
The last time I was in Walmart the customer base seemed to stoned to steal.
Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)

Although they can move pretty fast with their purloined stock of Little Debbie's on their lap on the motorized scooter shopping cart

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (bs+z0)

97 I have a different take. Earnings calls are notorious for blaming anything and everything (other than management) for disappointing performance. ‘Organized retail theft’ is a very convenient scapegoat. Are they providing detailed breakdowns of exactly how much is lost to theft with specific backup? I doubt it. Yes, retail theft is a problem. But I think it’s been overhyped as a convenient scapegoat.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (GRbpm)

98 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:18 PM (ppBhU)

Absolutely. If I owned a gas station, I'd shoot it out with a robber. Over a nickel. But I'd never expect an employee to do it. Give 'em the register. Use the gun under the counter if you have to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (0FoWg)

99
This kinda sorta reminds me of going to the Emergency Room and seeing it crammed full of illegals, who have no intention of paying even a penny of the bill they run up.

Because of the way the laws are written.

Which means that every one of us gets stuck with highly inflated prices for the care we actually need.

I think Our Betters/Democrats are very aware that the cost of theft will just be passed on to us Middle and Working Class normies.

Which goes perfectly with their plans to inflate us into poverty.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (QzZeQ)

100 Banana Republic:
- Tanks in the streets of the capitol city, which is on fire
- Massive civilian unrest and rioting
- Politicians running for their lives, many not making it
- A mustachioed strongman with a cool beret and a sidearm

Sadly, we have none of those. Sadly, we're not a banana republic. But, perhaps there's hope.

We don't even grow bananas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (guGkK)

101 Posted by: Equate at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (PGboh)

Oh, good. More Trump bashing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM (NpWq6)

102 > Where I live this is not an issue. No armed guards, no locked products on the shelves.

No offense, but you likely simply haven't heard of the incidents. There are no armed guards or locked products on the shelves near me, but I have LEO friends who tell me there are stores within ten miles of my house that are hit for thousands of dollars in thefts daily.

I live in a pretty classy upper middle class to lower upper class neighborhood and several shops near me don't accept paper money any more due to very frequent robbery.

Theft rings are mobile. If they don't have a car, they steal one. Then they go to the nice neighborhoods because people are not on guard there.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM (R38qh)

103 I just order what I need from Walmart and they deliver it to my house for no extra charge. I did have to pay for som annual fee for free delivery. I figure the fee was well worth the price of never having to set foot in a Walmart again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM (JTwsP)

104 Trump completely pussied out during BLM.
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one-named troll day is ongoing

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM (5Vde1)

105 I'd think they're losing as much in looting and other theft as they'd get with the woke financing. And I'd think the woke financiers might realize this is a losing strategy.

On the other hand, I'm sane.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 05:20 PM (J2vNu)

Slower collapse mandated over faster collapse.

Financing outside ESG is non-competitive.

But, they will tinker at the margins by removing whatever locations ESG allows them to.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM (xEgLq)

106

Hope.

The last time I was in Walmart the customer base seemed too stoned to steal.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (j4U/Z)

107 This is unsustainable. I am thrilled they're going down, but what happens next? Will this continue until we all have to drive 45 minutes to a store, wait in line for hours, employees behind bullet proof glass shove your bags through a sally port door, and you have to have armed guards escort you to your car?
Posted by: bonhomme

It stops when the only way you can buy anything is online. Provided, of course, your social credit is good.

Head and hand.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (OUMaO)

108 Walmart in NC is a joy. Yes joy. Walmart in Pittsburgh, CA not so much.

Posted by: DOYLE at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (Z8Yh2)

109 With $500 Bounties to be paid on every active flash-mobster pelt nailed to the floor. (Sighting Optic mounted to top of rifle, GO-PRO to document the shot was actually taken on an active THEIF, mounted so as to not interfere.)

This is a critical component of the whole plan. Participating companies can submit the videos of the takedowns for what would be a lucrative Pay-Per-View highlight reel to help underwrite the security costs.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (p8A+W)

110 This kinda sorta reminds me of going to the Emergency Room and seeing it crammed full of illegals, who have no intention of paying even a penny of the bill they run up.
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The new American Dream

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (5Vde1)

111 Induce a country-wide problem that leads to mass formation.

Whine, needle, and prod the populace to accept a 'Solution'™.

Next problem erupts. Wash, rinse, and repeat.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (IG4Id)

112 I have a different take.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (GRbpm)

NFW! You?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (P7aLi)

113 The worst thing is, you steal a 70" inch flat screen but when you get it outside, you realize it doesn't it in your stolen car.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (guGkK)

114 I'll have you know that I've never allowed my arms to be akimbo. Discipline is my name.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 22, 2023 05:16 PM

Arms? Luxury!!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (a3Q+t)

115 I do not weep for the big chain stores, who made a bundle by being allowed to stay open while their smaller competitors were shut down by the government for the longest two weeks in history.

I would support a law that forced all chains to pay for a Sikh with a stick for every mom and pop store. Covid made me a Distributivist.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (brAQZ)

116 54 Saying a movement is bigger that a single person and just going along with what "The leader" says use to be the kind of thing that we use to mock people as being NPCs and Obama drones. But hey, if you find you want to get your set of what you you should belive after getting a message of email or a social media account, you do you.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (KuG1T)

117 It's what they wanted. . . . .so, it's what they got. We are supposed to celebrate the "elect" who get what they want, remember? Now, they're pleading for the law-abiding to help. . . . .drag them to the edge of the molten lava. . . .throw them in

Posted by: Despise Marxists & Whiny Corp Woke Rat Bastards at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (x7i07)

118 Walmarts in southern Louisiana are a trip to the heart of darkness.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (JTwsP)

119 This kinda sorta reminds me of going to the Emergency Room and seeing it crammed full of illegals, who have no intention of paying even a penny of the bill they run up.
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The new American Dream
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM (5Vde1)

Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)

120 Look it's obvious that we need more Social Workers.

Posted by: Big Tuna - if it wasn't Trump we would have had Hillary at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (SUc4N)

121 The last time I was in Walmart the customer base seemed too stoned to steal.
Posted by: Auspex

That's where meth-heads take over the jobs they just aren't willing to do.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (IG4Id)

122 Is Target really adopting the cliche binary that goods are either taken from a store legally or illegally?

Binaries are so white supremacist, you know.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (krQz2)

123 This kinda sorta reminds me of going to the Emergency Room and seeing it crammed full of illegals, who have no intention of paying even a penny of the bill they run up.

The entire retail industry is going to have to switch over to hospital accounting to make brick-and-mortar work financially.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (guGkK)

124 I live in a pretty classy upper middle class to lower upper class neighborhood and several shops near me don't accept paper money any more due to very frequent robbery.

—

Cash is happily accepted everywhere I shop. It’s not upper vs lower class, it’s something else my area doesn’t have a lot of.

Is there some theft? Sure. There is crime everywhere and always has been. If it more than average? I doubt it.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (NLZCv)

125 n a suburb of Columbus, call Whitehall, there is a city sign that appears outside of several major retailers (like Wal-Mart).

SHOPLIFTING IS AGAINST THE LAW IN WHITEHALL AND VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED
signed
The mayor and chief of police of Whitehall

Whitehall, by the way, is probably a majority-minority suburb of Columbus. It is just east of Bexley, which is another suburb that probably holds some of the wealthiest people in the Greater Columbus area.
In the 1980's, Whitehall was a pretty nice place to live. My late uncle lived there before he died. It started going downhill in the 1990's and into the 2000's. Now, in the last ten years, it is visibly getting better again. A lot of hard work by people, and new developments, etc., and it is now becoming a nicer place to be.
They are not about to let it slide into being a mess.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (vcOmj)

126 52 Hi Bander!
You were missed on the art thread this morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:14 PM (C/VHT)

By you! Thanks, sweetie.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 22, 2023 05:26 PM (GzDfN)

127 Oh! Oh! I get it, goods are taken from a store, and one way, that's the "legal" way, and so automatically, if I don't choose that way, suddenly, it's a crime!?!

Wow. Just no imagination.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:26 PM (krQz2)

128 Oh, good. More Trump bashing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:22 PM

To be fair, he did utter the p-word.

(And prayer up for FenSon)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2023 05:26 PM (a3Q+t)

129 Oh, good. More Trump bashing.

Lets bash Trump for not being an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent spirit of Wrath and Justice.

Because the worst of Trump is infinitely better than the best of the current junta.

So lets focus on why we should be pissed off that Trump didn't turn out to be a benevolent god and let this current chorus of demons operate without notice.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (p8A+W)

130 I think they are just looking for excuses for their bad numbers.... Bidenomics is working! It's the theft Yeah, that's it.. The theft

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)

131 "First time Black achievements in sports"
?
??
???

Jackie Robinson was MVP four years before I was born. And I'm on Medicare now.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (brAQZ)

132 I hope all the woke corps go broke even if it means i will suffer. FUck em

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (EVR4i)

133 Let's take a look at who's doing the stealing. Are they Trump supporters?
Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM

You can clearly see all the red MAGA hats in the videos.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (aGVn1)

134 I would like to put in a prayer request please.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (NpWq6)
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I think I'm in under the wire: Done!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (5Vde1)

135 The future is ordering everything online, paying online and driving to the store to pick it up.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (ZbASP)

136 It's far past time that society returns to truly awful punishment for thievery. Some outlaws were just plain born to hang, and that's all there is to it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (e6UQI)

Brutality deserves brutality .

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (BdMk6)

137 79 Ace, please don’t ever call these criminal vermin “wolves.” It’s an insult to wolves. Wolves are among the most regal and beautiful of animals.

You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (ppBhU)
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No but I have wolf statutes and artwork in my apartment. Right next to the dragons. And I consider myself a “lone wolf” socially. And dogs are domesticated wolves, so insulting wolves is insulting dogs too ….

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (GRbpm)

138 Speaking of the end of the world as we know it, last dental appointment I gave them oodles of cash, because they said I needed a "deep cleaning." And given that I'd skipped out on a few dental visits due to a "virus of unknown origin" disrupting everything, I accepted my punishment.

I went in there today... you want me to pay... how much? Wait, last time was the "deep clean," what are you people trying to do that my insurance isn't covering?

You don't know? Oh, well, fine then, here's my money.....

No, don't be silly, I canceled the appointment. Go F yourselves. I wasn't impressed with your "deep cleaning" last time anyway. Charlatans, everywhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (P7aLi)

139 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2023 05:17 PM (NpWq6)

Done, and it will all work out.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (lX8VI)

140 You might as well give in because Trump is going to do whatever he wants to do regardless of what we or anybody else thinks. Just go with the flow and watch him do his thing. Throw some support his way if you want to.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (vFG9F)

141 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)
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Judge Dredd? Robocop?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (5Vde1)

142 I'm surprised Brandon would risk getting burnt Hawaiians on his boots.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (brAQZ)

143 I worked at 2 different Walmarts during the Obamapocalypse, or "My Extended Staycation (tm)." Both were decent, but the second one was much better. I've shopped in some that were very sketch.

Remember this: Walmart does not create the customer base. Walmart builds stores in all kinds of different communities, and the customers show up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (T/Lqj)

144 Good!!

Reap. Sow. And appears very little assembly required too.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (FxH7T)

145 124 This kinda sorta reminds me of going to the Emergency Room and seeing it crammed full of illegals, who have no intention of paying even a penny of the bill they run up.

The entire retail industry is going to have to switch over to hospital accounting to make brick-and-mortar work financially.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (guGkK)

Gosh, that's a real shame.

Posted by: Amazon Executives at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (AMIL/)

146 Fuck em

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (gwFMs)

147 A bunch of Sam Walton's spawn are leftist and they donated to BLM, the Dayton's who own Target are leftist to including the former idiot gov of Minn, Disney's spawn and Iger are leftist, Dick's got rid of their guns and are run by a leftist woman. I realize this downturn doesn't help the overall economy but the hell with all of them they voted for and funded this shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (BqPUE)

148 > Walmarts in southern Louisiana are a trip to the heart of darkness.

There's a Walmart in Renton, WA that's like going to Mogadishu. Everyone's in Muslim garb and has that vacant look you see on the faces of the permanently jobless. I've seen homeless guys in the aisles there with a knife in their hands and nobody blinks.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (R38qh)

149 67 The besmirching has begun.

Ramaswamy says he wants the truth about Saudi intelligence involvement in 9/11, to aid the families lawsuit against the Saudi government that is soon to go to trial, so the WaPo is now calling him a "9/11 truther".

The Propaganda Press is slowly wheeling into election shape.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

1) LIV Golf is bad because of its connection with Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses and their involvement in 9/11 are some of the reasons.

2) Ramaswamy is a 9/11 truther for agreeing that the Saudis were involved with 9/11.

Oh, to be able to juggle both of these thots in one's head. Amazing really.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (sAmhv)

150 The future is ordering everything online, paying online and driving to the store to pick it up.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (ZbASP)

You... drive? To the store??

What are the portholes in the back of your house for then?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (P7aLi)

151 The future is ordering everything online, paying online and ~~driving to the store to pick it up~~ waiting for it to be delivered by a self-driving car, and promptly stolen from your porch.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan!

Fix't.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (OUMaO)

152 You might as well give in because Trump is going to do whatever he wants to do regardless of what we or anybody else thinks. Just go with the flow and watch him do his thing. Throw some support his way if you want to.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (vFG9F)
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Well said.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (krQz2)

153 Public hanging, heads on stakes, handless thieves. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Big Tuna - if it wasn't Trump we would have had Hillary at August 22, 2023 05:31 PM (SUc4N)

154 79 Ace, please don’t ever call these criminal vermin “wolves.” It’s an insult to wolves. Wolves are among the most regal and beautiful of animals.

You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 05:19 PM (ppBhU)

Hmmm.... seein as how my License plate reads GR WLF.... uh...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 22, 2023 05:31 PM (oHd/0)

155 113 I have a different take.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:21 PM (GRbpm)

NFW! You?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:24 PM (P7aLi)

—————

Shocking I know …. But I do know earnings calls and was involved in prepping for them. If there is any disappointing news, you MUST find a scapegoat. All good news is of course the result of genius management.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:31 PM (GRbpm)

156 Nobody cares. Ye reap as ye sow.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 05:31 PM (pohLc)

157 1. Urban youths steal from retail stores in the. Âme of racial justice.

2. Retailers, facing epic losses, leave urban areas but prosper in non-urban areas.

3. Urban families complain that they have to travel to non-urban areas, which makes them uncomfortable and reminds them of racial injustice.

4. Democrats force retailers to go to urban areas in the name of racial justice.

5. See step 1.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (I0OE7)

158 142 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)
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Judge Dredd? Robocop?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The Road? THX-1138?

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (sAmhv)

159 1) LIV Golf is bad because of its connection with Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses and their involvement in 9/11 are some of the reasons.

2) Ramaswamy is a 9/11 truther for agreeing that the Saudis were involved with 9/11.

Oh, to be able to juggle both of these thots in one's head. Amazing really.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (sAmhv)

Here's a piece of advice, for anyone paying attention to media reports, ESPECIALLY those from the so-called right leaning corporate media complex: Don't.

When it comes to Rammy, they're pulling all the same crap they pulled on everybody else that won't toe the corporate line.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (P7aLi)

160 No but I have wolf statutes and artwork in my apartment. Right next to the dragons. And I consider myself a “lone wolf” socially. And dogs are domesticated wolves, so insulting wolves is insulting dogs too ….
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM

C'mon up here. We have tons of Timberwolves. Too many in fact. We had a trapping season a few years back but the citiot tree huggers got it stopped. They have decimated the moose population, deer as well. the DNR of course attributes it to...you guessed it. Globalwarmingclimatechange!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (aGVn1)

161 It's not just shoplifting -- organized retail crime and employee theft have become growing concerns, according to the NRF.

That's because retailers wanted to get rid of loss prevention departments. Are used to stop shoplifters, and worked with a buddy who did internal thefts. Retailers did what they could to cut loss prevention department, and finally eliminated them.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (BRJFo)

162 If we stop the looting at these stores then Persons of Color will starve and have no way of making a living !!!!!!!

You WHITE CRACKER AND WHITE KKK LOVING RED STATE RACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTS !!!!

Posted by: George at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (uYj1h)

163 If a candidate started running vigilante squad, they would have an inside track to the nomination.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (2Nl5C)

Yep. Part of why DJT ran. He doesn't want that.

And the DEM party and GOP party want this to happen. They're conspiring to make it happen. For their donors.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (xEgLq)

164 I live in a pretty classy upper middle class to lower upper class neighborhood and several shops near me don't accept paper money any more due to very frequent robbery.
Posted by: bonhomme

Barring a state/local law that hasn't been challenged, it's illegal to forbid cash. No, I'm not suggesting everyone here create a situation at their local stores to prove a point. ( your ass is going to jail even if you win all of the resulting court cases) But, the law they are trying to ignore is pretty plain; 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public or private.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (IG4Id)

165 Amazon just has to worry about porch pirates, and maybe some returns where the product is the wrong product in the right box. But they don't prosecute the porch pirates either.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (Cus5s)

166 The future is ordering everything online, paying online and ~~driving to the store to pick it up~~ waiting for it to be delivered by a self-driving car, and promptly stolen from your porch.

...

Fix't.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (OUMaO)
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The future sounds a lot like San Francisco.

Also, the eating of the bugs.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (krQz2)

167 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)
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Judge Dredd? Robocop?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The Road? THX-1138?
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (sAmhv)

Sure, but I want my Lincoln Continental with chandeliers for headlights.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (P7aLi)

168 You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?

Those shirts pair well with a mullet and heavy acne scars.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (p8A+W)

169 Not very supportive of Walmart or Target to complain about the diverse distribution of their wealth to help bring equality.

Clearly they are bigoted haters.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (pACZ7)

170 > They have decimated the moose population, deer as well.

Well, only culling 10% isn't that bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (R38qh)

171 So... there'll be a push for delivery only. Some Amazon reject in a beat-up Kia will show up at your place with your AA batteries, cough syrup and some hair spray.

He/she will then proceed to rob you instead of the store.

Don't even think about protecting you and yours, citizen.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (Q4IgG)

172 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)

For me, it's Buckaroo Banzai. And I pray it comes to pass.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (xEgLq)

173 "The popular retail chain [Dick's]..."

Is that true? Given the tack it's taken, shouldn't the operative word be "controversial" and not "popular"? I mean, that's been the MFM stylebook for, literally, decades. Dick's cuts its appeal to around half the American population. I'd say that's the definition of controversial as opposed to popular.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (pLf8e)

174 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan!

Yoot !

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (T4tVD)

175 The thieves will rob the Amazon and FedEx trucks when everything is online.
We need to remember that the people running the West want to destroy everything.
Everything.
Why is this being wrecked? Because they want to. I saw Anarchy or Death graffiti in a rest area in Massachusetts. Someone replied "says the gay in a rest area in a 1st world country".
They will destroy the rest area, too.
Everything means everything

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (Eeb9P)

176 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)
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Judge Dredd? Robocop?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (5Vde1)

I think the newer Robocop is a prime example of what a 15 Minute City would look like.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (BdMk6)

177 1. Urban youths steal from retail stores in the. Âme of racial justice.
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Or maybe they are just making a little money selling stuff that fell off a truck.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (5Vde1)

178 BLM Target, Walmart, and Home Depot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: George at August 22, 2023 05:34 PM (uYj1h)

179 I'm surprised Woke Target would admit that people who take their goods through diverse ways of acquisition such as theft are a problem at all.

are you trying to suggest that paying for things is white privilege?

Posted by: anachronda at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (oY6Yp)

180
It stops when the only way you can buy anything is online. Provided, of course, your social credit is good.

Head and hand.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 22, 2023 05:23 PM

When online merchants don't have to add a surcharge to cover theft they have a certain monetary advantage over bricks and mortar. Sucks to be brick and mortar, but George Floyd or something. They'll figure it out soon or perish.

I've been on the receiving end of 'or perish'. I still have nightmares about the experience. Decades later.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (enJYY)

181 Fix't.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (OUMaO)

Most excellent.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (P7aLi)

182 Don't even think about protecting you and yours, citizen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM (Q4IgG)

In my case, this could be fatally hazardous to your health.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (pohLc)

183 Trump destroyed these companies because he wanted to obey the Law !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: George at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (uYj1h)

184 Er....the newer Judge Dredd movie I mean.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

185 What I don't understand about Target is why our side only just started boycotting them. [\i]

1. Bud Light showed it was possible to win.
2. Most people don't use the bathrooms in a store
3. The pride displays were up front in your face.
4. Some tranny murdered a bunch of school children and the next day was Let's Support Trans Day instead of a day of mourning.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (s2V+q)

186 Sure, but I want my Lincoln Continental with chandeliers for headlights.
Posted by: BurtTC

Oh. So, you're The Duke. Cool!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (sAmhv)

187 You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?

Those shirts pair well with a mullet and heavy acne scars.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:33 PM

It's also looks cool on the side of a 1978 Dodge Tradesman van

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (aGVn1)

188 163 No but I have wolf statutes and artwork in my apartment. Right next to the dragons. And I consider myself a “lone wolf” socially. And dogs are domesticated wolves, so insulting wolves is insulting dogs too ….
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM

C'mon up here. We have tons of Timberwolves. Too many in fact. We had a trapping season a few years back but the citiot tree huggers got it stopped. They have decimated the moose population, deer as well. the DNR of course attributes it to...you guessed it. Globalwarmingclimatechange!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 05:32 PM (aGVn1)
———-

I’ve seen wolves in the wild. Was on a snowmobile tour deep in Montana. We stopped for a rest and to take some pics. As everyone was getting back on the sleds, two young wolves walk right across the trail, maybe 15 feet from us. They stopped, turned to look at us, and then kept walking. We of course all rushed to get out our phones to take a pic, but the phones are buried deep under layers in 5 degree weather. By the time the phones were out, the wolves had disappeared into the woods.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (GRbpm)

189 I'd be fine with the truth coming out about 9/11, and I'm sure the Saudis want to know the real story about the Las Vegas shootings.

It doesn't really matter, though, because if President Biden or Vivec want to loot Saudi assets in the USA, I'm pretty sure we will be seeing daily 9/11s until people get straightened out.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (2Nl5C)

I've heard Alex Jones' version of what happened in Vegas.

I would really rather know he doesn't know what he's talking about, but it's become increasingly consistent that so-called conspiracies he's talking about, months or years later become known facts.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (P7aLi)

190 You wanna know what your debit/credit cards don't have written on them? HMMM?????

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (IG4Id)

191 "Shrink has increased a bit this year. It increased last year. It's uneven across the country."

in other words huge in blue areas, almost nonexistent in red ones like where I live. why is that, I wonder?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (vbuLV)

192 Unless Trump is in jail, he'll be the nominee. Maybe even if he is locked up. The question is "what's next?" It's not DeSantis or Ramaswamy. Or anyone. It's Trump, or someone who clinched a joke nomination because Trump is in jail.

What do you do with that hand? That's the question in this election, and all the attendant shenanigans in the courts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (0FoWg)

193 so the WaPo is now calling him a "9/11 truther".

That is one hell of an endorsement .

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (p8A+W)

194 RE crime:

Obviously it's not a law problem; it's an enforcement problem. Also, it's not even that. It's an enforcement choice. Far too many opt not to do it.

Almost all of this would go away with strict enforcement of current law. Or are we at the point of needing laws to force enforcement of laws?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (pLf8e)

195 He/she will then proceed to rob you instead of the store.

you can get your stuff shipped to an AMZ locker, they're everywhere

Posted by: kallisto at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (zX78/)

196 We were promised moar Brawndo with our urban mayhem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (5Vde1)

197 >>You're wearing one of those moon/howling wolf t-shirts right now, aren't you?

Ace!!! I got it!! do a Moon Moon Cafe'!

Posted by: DanMan at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (wcu+j)

198 Oh. So, you're The Duke. Cool!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:37 PM (sAmhv)

I doubt I could get my voice that low.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (P7aLi)

199 Barring a state/local law that hasn't been challenged, it's illegal to forbid cash. No, I'm not suggesting everyone here create a situation at their local stores to prove a point. ( your ass is going to jail even if you win all of the resulting court cases) But, the law they are trying to ignore is pretty plain; 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public or private.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop

Now, pay with $2 dollar bills. Let the fun begin.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (BRJFo)

200 179 Sometimes I watch movies like Escape From New York, just to see what the next few years will be like.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:25 PM (P7aLi)
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Judge Dredd? Robocop?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:29 PM (5Vde1)

I think the newer Robocop is a prime example of what a 15 Minute City would look like.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Judge Dredd (2012 version)

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:39 PM (sAmhv)

201 in other words huge in blue areas, almost nonexistent in red ones like where I live. why is that, I wonder?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (vbuLV)
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It's a mystery!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:39 PM (5Vde1)

202 Oh, to be able to juggle both of these thots in one's head. Amazing really.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:30 PM (sAmhv)
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A lot of them don't juggle these in their head. They just wait until a Dem mouthpiece says something, and that clears it up.

Why carry around a bunch of out-dated conclusions, if better ones come along so readily.

Joe almost had a fire torch his entire Secure Corvette Information Facility. He said so earlier.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:40 PM (krQz2)

203 Now, pay with $2 dollar bills. Let the fun begin.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (BRJFo)

Do they accept $3 bills?

Posted by: Obama at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (lX8VI)

204 192 I’ve seen wolves in the wild. Was on a snowmobile tour deep in Montana. We stopped for a rest and to take some pics. As everyone was getting back on the sleds, two young wolves walk right across the trail, maybe 15 feet from us. They stopped, turned to look at us, and then kept walking. We of course all rushed to get out our phones to take a pic, but the phones are buried deep under layers in 5 degree weather. By the time the phones were out, the wolves had disappeared into the woods.

it happens.

Posted by: bigfoot at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (oY6Yp)

205 In 25 years I've seen two police cars at the local super center. They were selling lottery tickets for charity.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (pohLc)

206
I've heard Alex Jones' version of what happened in Vegas.

What's he say?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (QzZeQ)

207 It's also looks cool on the side of a 1978 Dodge Tradesman van

But nothing is worth the expression on the face of a young teenage daughter's father than pulling up to Saturday night in a custom van with an Adam & Eve mural painted on the side.

Ah, those were the days.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (p8A+W)

208

We can all agree that the modern black deserves reparations for white sins past present and future.

Posted by: Rev Dr Happy Hands at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (OkNWS)

209 When online merchants don't have to add a surcharge to cover theft they have a certain monetary advantage over bricks and mortar. Sucks to be brick and mortar, but George Floyd or something. They'll figure it out soon or perish.

I've been on the receiving end of 'or perish'. I still have nightmares about the experience. Decades later.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 05:35 PM (enJYY)

I remember when Amazon didn't add taxes, because they weren't brick and mortar, and therefore did not have to pay for road upkeep. And police/fire protection.

Boy, were those more innocent days.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM (P7aLi)

210 so the WaPo is now calling him a "9/11 truther".

That is one hell of an endorsement .
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (p8A+W)
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LOL. I'm guessing they gave Michael Moore's movie a good review, though!

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM (krQz2)

211 Joe almost had a fire torch his entire Secure Corvette Information Facility. He said so earlier.
Posted by: Axeman

LOL! I don't work in one of those. I work in the other kind. Heh!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM (sAmhv)

212 Unless Trump is in jail, he'll be the nominee. Maybe even if he is locked up. The question is "what's next?" It's not DeSantis or Ramaswamy. Or anyone. It's Trump, or someone who clinched a joke nomination because Trump is in jail.

What do you do with that hand? That's the question in this election, and all the attendant shenanigans in the courts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 05:38 PM (0FoWg)

Not backing DJT means they've retired. They've quit. They've wrapped it up.

They have decided to walk away rather than deal with DJT.

It's great. A new party will form and we'll have a decade or two of reaponsive pols.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM (xEgLq)

213 "You know where they aren't looting? Lahaina." - Joe Smirkypants

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM (v0R5T)

214 Judge Dredd (~~2012~~only version)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 22, 2023 05:39 PM (sAmhv)
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Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (krQz2)

215 I'm not going to shed a tear for these companies, they wanted it and it's not going to get better aby point in this years.

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (MOY79)

216 50
'Unless it stops ESG financiers from extending advantageous rates for woke it won't matter.'

I'll vote for anyone that promises to jail these financiers.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (roH4R)

217 Joe almost had a fire torch his entire Secure Corvette Information Facility. He said so earlier.
Posted by: Axeman
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Oh, that's good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (5Vde1)

218 What's he say?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 05:41 PM (QzZeQ)

Short version? Saudi commandos, the princes were pissed about something or other, so they came in, guns a'blazin, with dead bodies strewn all over the hotel.

The mass shooting outside was just a diversion, or something like that. It was a message, that they could and would, cause trouble, if they had to.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (P7aLi)

219 I figured the sucker they fingered for Vegas was just the quartermaster logistics guy.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (xEgLq)

220 Now, pay with $2 dollar bills. Let the fun begin.
Posted by: rickb223

Does it have the same legal stipulation written on it.

Yes, yes it does.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (IG4Id)

221 Costco doesn't seem to have this problem. Maybe that's the solution. No membership, No ID? No entry!

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (7ZQe3)

222 Joe almost had a fire torch his entire Secure Corvette Information Facility. He said so earlier.
Posted by: Axeman
================
Oh, that's good.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (5Vde1)
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It's Ace/Chuy/Lamont's

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:45 PM (krQz2)

223 151 Oh, to be able to juggle both of these thots in one's head. Amazing really.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: lena dunham at August 22, 2023 05:45 PM (oY6Yp)

224 We should look to Singapore for crime deterrent policies: for every $50 of merchandise you take you get one whack with the cane.

No prison; just beating, administered in public, with your name and shopping list on full display.

And the penalty doubles every time you're found guilty.

I estimate no more than 100 will succeed in being beaten to death before the rest decide that theft is bad idea that should be stopped.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 22, 2023 05:45 PM (ou9hh)

225 Short version? Saudi commandos, the princes were pissed about something or other, so they came in, guns a'blazin, with dead bodies strewn all over the hotel.

The mass shooting outside was just a diversion, or something like that. It was a message, that they could and would, cause trouble, if they had to.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (P7aLi)

One prince owned the upper floors and a rival prince was also in town, right?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 05:45 PM (xEgLq)

226 The future is ordering everything online, paying online and driving to the store to pick it up.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 22, 2023 05:27 PM (ZbASP)

In Los Angeles they have already attacked trains carrying Cargo containing packages

Posted by: Oldcat at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (eoQWY)

227 Now, pay with $2 dollar bills. Let the fun begin.
Posted by: rickb223

Does it have the same legal stipulation written on it.

Yes, yes it does.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

The funny thing is, most people have not seen a two dollar bill. Most people think it's fake.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (BRJFo)

228 >The mass shooting outside was just a diversion, or something like that. It was a message, that they could and would, cause trouble, if they had to.

Posted by: BurtTC

or maybe the guy was just nuts

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (Jd6f3)

229 Costco doesn't seem to have this problem. Maybe that's the solution. No membership, No ID? No entry!
Posted by: Pete Seria at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (7ZQe3)
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ID's you say.....

Hmmm....

Posted by: Voting Fraud Prevention Expert at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (5Vde1)

230 No, don't be silly, I canceled the appointment. Go F yourselves. I wasn't impressed with your "deep cleaning" last time anyway. Charlatans, everywhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (P7aLi)

So called "Deep Cleanings" are often horseshit glorified normal cleanings used to fleece you and your pocket.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (EVR4i)

231 What is "the modern black"?

Nothing modern about 12th century lawlessness.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (P0lS3)

232 Saudi Arabia's theft prevention.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (+T4jH)

233

Yeah, the pay the parking ticket with nickles is an old game.

But withdraw what, $1,100 in cash savings gets you a look from the man, man.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (j4U/Z)

234 The funny thing is, most people have not seen a two dollar bill. Most people think it's fake.
Posted by: rickb223

I guess not everyone has had a grandma. That was my birthday present for years.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (IG4Id)

235
I remember when Amazon didn't add taxes, because they weren't brick and mortar, and therefore did not have to pay for road upkeep. And police/fire protection.

Boy, were those more innocent days.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:42 PM

Saved me a lot of money. Six percent of a couple thousand a year.

Money now going to a (D) governorator to keep the online ballot scam going through 2024 and beyond. On a long enough timeline my six percent becomes ZERO percent. They may wanna consider that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (enJYY)

236 I'm certain the Alex Jones version is itself a fictional retelling of the actual events. Things had to be really desperate before the illegitimate Junta decided that a gun battle in the casinos had to be covered up with a mass shooting and media suppression.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2023 05:43 PM (2Nl5C)

That's why I say I hope he's wrong. Sounds far-fetched, but not that much more implausible than our government pumping hundreds of billions into Ukraine to protect our bioweapons labs from getting into the hands of the Rooskies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (P7aLi)

237 "but it's become increasingly consistent that so-called conspiracies he's (Alex Jones) talking about, months or years later become known facts."

I don't doubt the DeepState would allow/encourage school shootings, to further their goal of disarming the public.

No idea if the recent shootings or Sandy Hook were MK Ultra type events, or just lack of supervision of the crazies, but certainly DeepState seems to be encouraging attacks on Trump and his supporters.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (Cus5s)

238 >>The funny thing is, most people have not seen a two dollar bill. Most people think it's fake.

Posted by: rickb223

like the Eisenhower dollar, it has disappeared

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (Jd6f3)

239 It's Ace/Chuy/Lamont's
Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:45 PM (krQz2)
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He isn't here, so in fine GOPe fashion, you should pounce and seize!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:48 PM (5Vde1)

240 Walmart US CEO John Furner echoed that sentiment, saying: "Shrink has increased a bit this year. It increased last year. It's uneven across the country."

that's racist

Posted by: x at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (frATP)

241 > you can get your stuff shipped to an AMZ locker, they're everywhere
_________

I'm a 600lb shut in. My cousin has a 21 year old Mazda 3. If she'd take out the passenger seat and remove the B pillar, I might be able to fit in the back seat. But my hover round won't. I also need a support animal. Like an Ostridge.

Posted by: Lizzo's Little Sister at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (Q4IgG)

242 There is a sign in the Singapore Airport as you depart the plane that says......... "The Penalty For Smuggling Drugs is Death".... Guess what.......... They do not have drug problem in Singapore.....

Hey Hunter, I bought you a one way ticket and a baggie with baking powder in it to take on your trip to Singapore !!!!!!!! Enjoy ......

Posted by: George "Jack" Meehofft at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (uYj1h)

243 In Los Angeles they have already attacked trains carrying Cargo containing packages
Posted by: Oldcat

They've been doing this shit forever. Funny how they always know which containers have the most valuable goods.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (NlOOx)

244 64 Why are they paying security guards?

——-

To keep you and I and all the other law abiding normies in line.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (zO4QA)

245 Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (P7aLi)

So called "Deep Cleanings" are often horseshit glorified normal cleanings used to fleece you and your pocket.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (EVR4i)

And they preyed on my guilt over not having been to a dentist in more than 3 years. Oh well, lesson learned.

I'll not be going back there. Thanks for the expert opinion on it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (P7aLi)

246
I always thought the world would forget Alex Jones.

It's weird to see the world becoming more and more Alex Jones.

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 05:50 PM (krQz2)

247 like the Eisenhower dollar, it has disappeared
Posted by: DB

I've got a pocket full of two dollar bills. I get them from my bank.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:50 PM (BRJFo)

248 rly? $2 bills are common around here, & I think they're fun!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:50 PM (vbuLV)

249 Prolly been said but Target's problem is mainly a self-inflicted one and they can blame whoever but I'm not believing it... Fork em with a C4 filled pineapple covered in barbed wire...

Twice

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at August 22, 2023 05:50 PM (LdguF)

250 Money now going to a (D) governorator to keep the online ballot scam going through 2024 and beyond. On a long enough timeline my six percent becomes ZERO percent. They may wanna consider that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (enJYY)
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Gov. Horsey Horchul announced yesterday that the Feds are paying NYC to open a tent city to house 2500 migrants for them, in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 05:51 PM (5Vde1)

251 Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 05:51 PM (v0R5T)

252 Ostridge, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:51 PM (vbuLV)

253 No idea if the recent shootings or Sandy Hook were MK Ultra type events, or just lack of supervision of the crazies, but certainly DeepState seems to be encouraging attacks on Trump and his supporters.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2023 05:47 PM (Cus5s)

Jones has admitted he was wrong about Sandy Hook, of course. I don't doubt it's possible the spooks planted fake "evidence" for him to find, only to discredit him.

That being said, given the shooter, I have no reason to believe it was anything other than him behind it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:52 PM (P7aLi)

254 We need more $3 bills!

Posted by: San Francisco at August 22, 2023 05:52 PM (krQz2)

255 The shrink is increasing?

Is this one of those things like jumbo shrimp, military intelligence>

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 05:52 PM (4I/2K)

256 >I've got a pocket full of two dollar bills. I get them from my bank.

Posted by: rickb223

do you have a hot rod Ford?
obscure musical reference

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 05:53 PM (Jd6f3)

257 The only thing Alex Jones got wrong was that -- in his childlike innocence -- he thought the .gov would fake a school shooting rather than spin someone up to make a real one happen.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 22, 2023 05:53 PM (UfRqq)

258 The shrink is increasing?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 05:52 PM (4I/2K)
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I WAS IN THE POOL!

Posted by: George Costanza at August 22, 2023 05:53 PM (krQz2)

259 Shrink has increased a bit this year. It increased last year. It's uneven across the country."
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Let's mandate theft in all of the other unaffected areas in the name of Equity!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (SBOFW)

260 Face reco has gotten good enough, along with computer vision (CV) (remember when Amazon was ready to go with camera based grocery shopping?) that everyone walks through a one-way turnstile that only opens when someone not on a watch-list enters.

You loot, then the exit turnstiles don't open until you have a talk with a security. If talking to security isn't something you want to do, then your face goes on the watch-list.

If you decide to mend you evil ways and get off a watchlist, you must pay restitution based on what the CV camera system claims you stole.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (p8A+W)

261 the shrinkage is getting bigger

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (Jd6f3)

262 Not an emotional support ostrich! No, you need an emotional support billionaire to pay for your goods. Hunter Biden might be available, and it appears he might already be leash-trained.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (mNmNo)

263 The something was likely a hit on MBS himself. His guards responded with their usual empathy and restraint, the FBI realized shit was out of control, and they decided that a mass shooting might be more easily explained.
Posted by: trev006 at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (2Nl5C)

That might have been it. I don't remember.

It's all mafia type stuff. With civilian casualties coming out the Wazoo.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (P7aLi)

264 6 more minutes & it's New Glarus time!

Staghorn Octoberfest! even though it's still August ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:54 PM (vbuLV)

265 like the Eisenhower dollar, it has disappeared
Posted by: DB
_______

Democrat I knew back then was hoping inflation would make the phrase "Not worth an Ike" popular.

The fact that he understood inflation tells you how long ago that was.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (brAQZ)

266 "Shrink has increased a bit this year. It increased last year. It's uneven across the country."

To a conglomerate it just means retail pricing across the entire country will increase. Moms and Pops and Main Street will go under with such "shrinkage". Big Business will plunder along with the associated costs of doing business increasing however necessary.

Every market in the country is going to continue to get punished no matter how well-policed your particular locale. It's Bidenomics all the way down.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (pLf8e)

267 What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (ju2Fy)

268 do you have a hot rod Ford?
obscure musical reference
Posted by: DB

Golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (BRJFo)

269 Civil war..,

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (+T4jH)

270
We need more $3 bills!

Posted by: San Francisco at August 22, 2023 05:52 PM

I discovered in my deceased father-in-laws desk a $3 bill with Hillary as President. I keep it in my wallet. I'm sure it's worth something.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 05:55 PM (enJYY)

271 Short version? Saudi commandos, the princes were pissed about something or other, so they came in, guns a'blazin, with dead bodies strewn all over the hotel.

The mass shooting outside was just a diversion, or something like that. It was a message, that they could and would, cause trouble, if they had to.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:44 PM (P7aLi)

Ah, thanks.

I can't buy into that explanation.

But, with our new glorious completely open to terrorists and small nukes, and chemical/biological weapons borders,

it could be a prediction of events 15 minutes into the future.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 05:56 PM (QzZeQ)

272 Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?
Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 05:51 PM (v0R5T)

South of the Border would have been constructed and fortified more like the Brandenburg Gate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 05:56 PM (4I/2K)

273 Pretty soon, merchandise will be behind the 2 inch glass with multiple sentry guns at the access point

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2023 05:56 PM (/6GbT)

274 American CEOs are having a real Come to Jesus moment. Their shareholders are angry.

It's not enough to show up at Aspen Institute and mingle and to ignore all the ruination wrought by woke policies.

They are destroying shareholder value, and destroying America.

Posted by: PJ at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (G1dq6)

275 Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?

Confederate States of America
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a 2004 American mockumentary

https://youtu.be/exnwTWfFRM8

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (a5NDH)

276 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor. No idea how in the world that work for grocery stores.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (KuG1T)

277 Thanks for the expert opinion on it.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (P7aLi)

My pleasure. It's also why I drive a Honda and not a porsche. I am relatively honest and like to sleep at night

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (EVR4i)

278 What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?
Posted by: olddog in mo

It's like a flash mob, only they go into a store in groups, grab rocks of clothing or purses, and all run out the door at the same time. We used to call them smashing grabs.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (BRJFo)

279 >>Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?

Only the Sister Humpers.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 05:58 PM (HrNHh)

280 no Eisenhowers, this is true, but lots of Sacajaweas, I like them, too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 05:58 PM (vbuLV)

281 Shop Korean and Sihk places.
They don't put up with this shit.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 05:59 PM (xcxpd)

282 284 What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?
Posted by: olddog in mo

It's like a flash mob, only they go into a store in groups, grab rocks of clothing or purses, and all run out the door at the same time. We used to call them smashing grabs.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (BRJFo)

And color tends to always be a factor...so, the gathering is definitely done on certain channels and not others...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2023 05:59 PM (exHjb)

283 I learned a lot about retail theft being in a grand jury. One thing, just letting the shop lifters go doesn't mean there will not be violence. Customers will inadvertently get in the way and the thief will not hesitate to beat them to get out of the store. The same has happened when a store clerk asked if they needed help thinking they were paying customers. He got his ass beat real good. Large scale shop lifting breeds violence.

Posted by: Mishdog at August 22, 2023 06:01 PM (YXEoM)

284 Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?

*********

Football would be more watchable

Fried chicken and grits would be the national food mascots

Starbucks wouldn’t exist

American Women would be better cooks and not shed a tear when shooting game with their trust rifles before skinning it for dinner

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxxed Ranger at August 22, 2023 06:01 PM (VTu1l)

285 >> What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?

They have Rings of Theft and Resale Agents that work in concert to take advantage of lax enforcement.

California is filled with them.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 06:01 PM (HrNHh)

286 What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?

I wonder if the crims are stupid enough to bring their mobile phones with them.

The ability to use simple tracking technology to identify the flash mobs and follow them to their criminal lair is pretty much old tech now.

If the local governments don't want to do it, I'm wondering if there is a cartel based industry willing to do black recovery and mitigation services for some of these retailers.

Especially retailers that can launder the payments to the cartels through their international locations.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 06:01 PM (p8A+W)

287 I am listening to Poco. Peace in my time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 06:02 PM (J/h2Z)

288 Honey, I shrunk the inventory.
How politically correct.

Posted by: PG at August 22, 2023 06:03 PM (84jHt)

289 282 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor. No idea how in the world that work for grocery stores.
Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 05:57 PM (KuG1T)

Was in a Canadian beer store like that. The beer was listed on a display and they sent the case through on a belt after you paid.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 22, 2023 06:03 PM (aVRv1)

290 I wonder if the crims are stupid enough to bring their mobile phones with them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 06:01 PM (p8A+W)
---
That would be a real mistake if anybody were going after them!

Posted by: Axeman at August 22, 2023 06:03 PM (krQz2)

291
Well, went to see my father at "rehab" in the nursing home. The other day, he popped positive on a Coof test, along with 4 other residents at the "cottage" (Facility has about 15 "cottages" arranged around a circular central court area, each cottage with 12 rooms).

They had "quarantine" mask required signs all over the place. Supposed to check in and have temperature checked.

It's all bullshit on paper only, "officially only". Nobody, not one staffer, therapist, receptionists, nurse was wearing a mask. And not one patient.

Nobody gave a shit. Let me right in. It's all bullshit, and they know it, but they are doing it officially on paper.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at August 22, 2023 06:03 PM (Mzdiz)

292 "292 What exactly is "organized retail crime"? Cartels? Mafia? BLM? Do they say on their calls?

I wonder if the crims are stupid enough to bring their mobile phones with them."

I'm sure 90% of the crims have their cellphones on them...they plan it most of the time through their phones...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2023 06:03 PM (exHjb)

293 Amazon Fresh in Oceanside,NY is camera shopping, open the Amazon app and get a QR code to enter. Store is creepy and not really all that.
StopnShop is much better.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (Eeb9P)

294 The Big Shrink > The Big Short > The Big Chill

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (4I/2K)

295 The funny thing is, most people have not seen a two dollar bill. Most people think it's fake.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (BRJFo)

=====

They are A Thing on cruises, as I found out last May.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (oTPpX)

296 I'm sure everyone here but the trolls realize that the 13% is not costing the retailers money, they are costing the retailers customers money in higher prices. Add that to Bidennomics inflation of 12% and we are talking some real money. I'm sure that is one major reason they allow a 13% discount.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (17s+e)

297
Kid-sniffer-in-Chief almost lost his 67 Corvette in a kitchen fire. Prayers anyone?

I hope not.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 06:05 PM (enJYY)

298 299 Amazon Fresh in Oceanside,NY is camera shopping, open the Amazon app and get a QR code to enter. Store is creepy and not really all that.
StopnShop is much better.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (Eeb9P)

With kids, I'd never do the QR code shopping - if you move an item and don't replace it to the correct spot, you get charged.

Heck, without kids, I wouldn't either...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 22, 2023 06:05 PM (exHjb)

299 Retail is going to have to move to a kiosk-type setup. Pictures/lists of products on a wall and customers fill out an order either on a checklist or digital app. Next, customer pays up front, and the then robots in the back warehouse scoop up the order and roll it out to the customer.

Retail personnel will be barebones. Payment will precede orders.

Crime will move out of store and into parking lot, for better or for worse. Then drive through kiosks will enter the building. And crime will move to street carjackings.

And then vigilante justice will become the norm because government/civil society will have failed utterly (and maybe by design).

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 22, 2023 06:05 PM (pLf8e)

300 If you have no phone on you and are wearing a mask, it is the 99 Coral of shoplifting

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 06:05 PM (Eeb9P)

301 >>I wonder if the crims are stupid enough to bring their mobile phones with them.

A large % are illegals gaming one of the many gameable systems we have put in place for them

I am sure they have their Free Phones on them. Along with at least one or two others.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 06:05 PM (HrNHh)

302 Video of a man delivering a righteous rant on the topic of Joe Biden's acts in Hawaii.

https://is.gd/WYMR9i

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (R38qh)

303 Our future is Demolition Man on the social - you can't offend or watch things that might offend side- but with Judge Dredds cops, though restrained to only shoot white people.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (KuG1T)

304 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor. No idea how in the world that work for grocery stores.
Posted by: Bete

Famously, 'Service Merchandise'. They didnt' last long.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (IG4Id)

305 If I steal from a thief, have committed a crime?

Posted by: Goatweed at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (0Q/6W)

306 I haven't messed with them yet to see what happens if I browse.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (Eeb9P)

307 >>>I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor.

Service Merchandise, RIP. Truly a concept ahead of its time. Of course, these ferals would simply drive a stolen car through the warehouse door and get their loot on.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 22, 2023 06:07 PM (CwhoI)

308 Walmart, Home Depot Sound the Alarm: State-Tolerated Mass-Looting Is Getting Worse and Worse
_____________

Oddly, Barnes and Noble reports they're having no problem with shoplifting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 22, 2023 06:07 PM (eqpxU)

309 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor. No idea how in the world that work for grocery stores.

Its coming. I spoke on length with a senior executive at Kroger about their progress in building a Lights Out warehouse where its fully automated (and thus no need to light the warehouse).

In practice, you place your order, the robots do their thing, you pick up your order after paying for it.

The problems include: brand name vendors pay a lot for product placement; what to do when wanting to do hotdogs and there are buns but not the preferred hotdog meat; impulse purchasing, etc.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 06:07 PM (p8A+W)

310 I saw the Brad Hamilton dude hurl a coffeepot at a bad guy trying to rob the QuickMart. Stopped him cold. It was gnarly awesome!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 22, 2023 06:07 PM (4I/2K)

311 'Shop Korean and Sihk places.'

Steal from us? That is a butt whooping, sir.

Posted by: Sikh with a Stikh at August 22, 2023 06:07 PM (roH4R)

312 > They are A Thing on cruises, as I found out last May.

How so? I was recently on a cruise and every incidental I paid for went on my room key card.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:08 PM (R38qh)

313 These stores also have incredibly high-def security cameras all over the exterior of the building watching the entrances and parking lot.

The store owners can easily identify the perpetrators, but they know the local LEOs will do jack squat to prosecute them.

Minigun turrets, like those in Fallout 4, might be the only solution.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 06:08 PM (BpYfr)

314 This past weekend I watched a few videos of mobs looting of high end stores in CA. Smash and grab that Gucci! One jewelry story in Beverly Hills the mob came in and they had a few customers in the store who immediately laid on the ground as cases were smashed and jewelry stolen. Biden/Soros's America.

Posted by: Cheri at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (oiNtH)

315 Anybody ever wonder what it would be like if the South had won?
Posted by: wth at

Slavery for another decade or to and general malaise. Then invasion by Mexico.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (+T4jH)

316 Service Merchandise, RIP. Truly a concept ahead of its time. Of course, these ferals would simply drive a stolen car through the warehouse door and get their loot on.

What happens behind warehouse doors stays behind warehouse doors.

Freddie and his crew might be stuffed into the industrial box compactors if they hit the wrong shift manager.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (p8A+W)

317 309 Our future is Demolition Man on the social - you can't offend or watch things that might offend side- but with Judge Dredds cops, though restrained to only shoot white people.

go long on taco bell

Posted by: anachronda at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (oY6Yp)

318 How so? I was recently on a cruise and every incidental I paid for went on my room key card.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:08 PM (R38qh)

=====

People bring them and use them for tips.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (oTPpX)

319 Service Merchandise and David Weiss were ahead of their time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (NlOOx)

320 They are A Thing on cruises, as I found out last May.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 22, 2023 06:04 PM (oTPpX)

Three dollar bills are thing on the cruises I go on

Posted by: Shep! at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (aVRv1)

321
Apparently some Maui resident had a 'Trump Won' sign on display as Biden passed. Many middle finger salutes were exhibited.

More votes then Obama though.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (enJYY)

322 Barring a state/local law that hasn't been challenged, it's illegal to forbid cash.

That’s a very common misconception. Legal tender cannot be refused to pay off debts. Like say, Taxes, or a power bill.

Any store or restaurant or hardware store, is free to set the terms of acceptable payment. How could it be otherwise? They can refuse to take cash. Or, they could demand cash only, and refuse cash or credit.

The difference being, you haven’t bought anything yet - thus, there is no “debt”.

What hasn’t been tested, there is a school of thought that posits refusal to accept cash for payment of debt extinguishes that debt. “You owe me $1000”

“OK, here”

“We don’t take cash”

“Great! Sign here on the dotted line…”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (XZCs7)

323 Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:28 PM (P7aLi)

So called "Deep Cleanings" are often horseshit glorified normal cleanings used to fleece you and your pocket.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2023 05:46 PM (EVR4i)
And they preyed on my guilt over not having been to a dentist in more than 3 years. Oh well, lesson learned.
I'll not be going back there. Thanks for the expert opinion on it.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 22, 2023 05:49 PM (P7aLi)

Here's another expert opinion.
If what your dentist actually did was a full periocharting and you had deep pockets and sub gingival calculus and then did a root plane and scale, more than likely you got your money's worth.

A "deep cleaning' is often used as a euphemism for an RPSC but not by me. you also probably needed to be numbed up for an RPSC cuz they can hurt like a bitch.

If you're a smoker and/or non-flosser chances are good that you may have had gum disease.

If your dentist isn't doing regular periocharting, then talks about "Deep cleaning", then yeah the odds go up on it being a scam. Mostly, because if he/she isn't doing regular periocharting, you're not getting proper dental care IMHO

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 06:09 PM (QzZeQ)

324 Conspiracy minded me thinks Amazon is behind all this so in the end there will only be one store where we can get all our essential goods from, and only if we have the mark of the beast and microchip in our skulls they can scan to confirm our social score is good enough to buy food

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxxed Ranger at August 22, 2023 06:10 PM (VTu1l)

325 I see a lot of cars now where the painted number/letter on the license plate is scraped off. The Smokey bubble is a ticket.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 22, 2023 06:10 PM (Eeb9P)

326 I know who these fucks donated to last go around.

Hope they lose all their inventory.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:10 PM (5xURv)

327 295 Strange Brew!

As to organized crime retail theft- yep. If you have a local black market-and if you arr in a large city you do, and a medium city you probably do, then they fence item super cheap and then sell them cheap to buying cx who don't want to steal the items themselves, but want cheaper than store prices.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 06:10 PM (KuG1T)

328 Next up: those retailers will flee the "diverse" areas, which will then be "shoplifting deserts."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (eqpxU)

329 I see a concept where everything is locked up and you have to prepay and then receive your merchandise.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (+T4jH)

330 Always buy your tools from the roadside pop up and flea markets.

You are helping these corporations understand BLM and ESG.

AKA f em.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (c+Owx)

331 The store owners can easily identify the perpetrators, but they know the local LEOs will do jack squat to prosecute them.

There are also COTS AI algorithms for those cameras out there to constantly scan and alert when certain criminal behavior is about to take place.

This is preventable. The doors mysteriously lock and customers can only leave when the algorithms detect organized crime imminent.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (p8A+W)

332 If the preferred delivery methods are;
- home delivery
- pre-purchase/curbside
- warehouse/kiosk pay and self package

or

State delivered "necessities" to a State run market in a State run hell hole.

What is the preferred option?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (Q4IgG)

333 > People bring them and use them for tips.

Oh. NCL charged a per person per day fee that went to tips. Whenever I saw people buying drinks or things, they signed a receipt on which you could add tips.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:12 PM (R38qh)

334 >>>Conspiracy minded me thinks Amazon is behind all this

Well, Bezos is a just a Nehru jacket away from being a full-fledged super-villain.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 22, 2023 06:12 PM (CwhoI)

335

New York Times - The Worst People Run for Office. It’s Time for a Better Way.

https://archive.is/AZ8mp

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (63Dwl)

336 Famously, 'Service Merchandise'. They didnt' last long.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 06:06 PM (IG4Id)

I remember that place! The whole store was just a giant display and you talked to a salesman who wrote up your ticket, you paid at an area in the middle of the store, then went to the back to pick up your stuff. We thought it would be easy doing Christmas shopping like that one year. The warehouse left out out a lot of our order and it took forever to get corrected.

Posted by: Mishdog at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (YXEoM)

337 This is coordinated between law enforcement agencies in the blue areas. I wonder how much evidence of this coordination could be uncovered. It would be nice if the DOJ would investigate, but they are part of it. So that leaves the media and the Republicans. So I guess we won't find out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (2ABVC)

338 I'm amazed at all the Milwaukee battery powered tools you can buy at Watt and Elkhorn Blvd in Sacramento advertised on Craigslist.

It's got to be that Craigslist is used to fence stolen goods.

Posted by: torabora at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (XynZy)

339 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor.

------------

Hmmm. New idea for a brothel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (BdMk6)

340 >>Video of a man delivering a righteous rant on the topic of Joe Biden's acts in Hawaii.

I like this guy. Normally I click off stuff like this after a few seconds, but I listened to his whole bit.

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (Jd6f3)

341 >>As to organized crime retail theft- yep. If you have a local black market-and if you arr in a large city you do, and a medium city you probably do, then they fence item super cheap and then sell them cheap to buying cx who don't want to steal the items themselves, but want cheaper than store prices.

They also sell to small retailers.
The mafia LOVED doing this with Tuna and Diapers.
They'd steal every single truck carrying either. And then sell them to the Bodegas that they shake down for protection cash.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 06:13 PM (HrNHh)

342 335 I see a concept where everything is locked up and you have to prepay and then receive your merchandise.
Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 06:11 PM (+T4jH)

It's funny. That store existed already. It was called Service Merchandise.

You grabbed a ticket from a shelf and the stock room sent it up from on a conveyor straight to checkout.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:14 PM (5xURv)

343 As a former cashier, I applaud corporate getting their heads out of the sand. No one wants to risk violence or intimidation at work every day.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 22, 2023 06:14 PM (/+bwe)

344 314 Batnes and Noble just have to deal with Manga cows, which are people who just come in, read the volumes in store and then leave. Probably has declined as internet piracy increased though.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 06:15 PM (KuG1T)

345 Or, they could demand cash only, and refuse cash or credit.

Posted by: Common Tater

Hahn?

Second, no. Credit can be refused because it requires the merchant to have a merchant account, costing them money to make the transaction. Electronic transactions aren't legal tender.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 06:15 PM (IG4Id)

346 349 As a former cashier, I applaud corporate getting their heads out of the sand. No one wants to risk violence or intimidation at work every day.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 22, 2023 06:14 PM (/+bwe

They donated to the people that implemented this shit. They voted for them. They campaigned for them.

Fuck. Them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:16 PM (5xURv)

347 Let's apply the NYT suggested randomization for politicians to the news industry.

Pick reporters out of a hat and pick articles out of a hat to place articles in the NYT.

Posted by: torabora at August 22, 2023 06:17 PM (XynZy)

348 On my home from work, I pass two residences that are having 'yard sales' every day that isn't rainy or a holiday. All year long. It's pretty obvious where they're getting that stuff, but nobody seems to care.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 22, 2023 06:17 PM (CwhoI)

349 "You grabbed a ticket from a shelf and the stock room sent it up from on a conveyor straight to checkout.
Posted by: AlaBAMA "

You stood in line to submit your tickets and pay. They you stood in line to wait for your stuff to come out. It seemed Sovietesque at the time

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 06:18 PM (vFG9F)

350 In the late 60's I was working downtown Houston at the new control center for the HL&P utility. The direct route home to the Gulf Freeway took me through a black area. I needed a pack of cigarettes so I stopped at a grocery store. The store had a balcony all around the interior with a couple of guys carrying rifles walking around...I shit you not. They knew how to stop "shrinkage".

Posted by: SS at August 22, 2023 06:19 PM (xlrNs)

351 I've heard of stotes in the past where they had all their merchandise in the warehouse, you'd take a ticket to the front and they send it be conveyor.

Service Merchandise.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 06:19 PM (G8h7g)

352 I want to pick out the item I want from the shelf so I don't get one that's been kicked around the warehouse or by a delivery gorilla.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 06:19 PM (vFG9F)

353 CNN doing real journalism?

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig blasted the DOJ for their 'inexplicable' conduct with Hunter Biden.

"I genuinely am perplexed by what DOJ's doing here.
It's really inexplicable to me. First, we had basically five years of behind-the-scenes investigation with no transparency, no action, and some questions being asked, what's taken so long? And then they go all the way to appointing a special counsel, the same guy who's been presiding over the case for five-plus years already. I think they've made a real mess for themselves and now they're going to have to deal with the consequences of it."

https://is.gd/4F0wo5

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:20 PM (R38qh)

354 You stood in line to submit your tickets and pay. They you stood in line to wait for your stuff to come out. It seemed Sovietesque at the time
Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 06:18 PM (vFG9F

But it did work. Basically nill in the theft dept

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:20 PM (5xURv)

355 They donated to the people that implemented this shit. They voted for them. They campaigned for them.

Fuck. Them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:16 PM

If "they" is corporate. I've got relatives who work at Walmart etc because those are the best paychecks and bennies outside the area school or hospital systems.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 22, 2023 06:20 PM (/+bwe)

356 Boldly go where no nood has gone before.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

357 Service Merchandise!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 22, 2023 06:20 PM (4I/2K)

358 I'm laughing imaging the quality of boards you'd get at Menards if you had to order them, and they decided which ones to put on the conveyor belt.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 22, 2023 06:21 PM (CwhoI)

359 > On my home from work, I pass two residences that are having 'yard sales' every day that isn't rainy or a holiday. All year long. It's pretty obvious where they're getting that stuff, but nobody seems to care.

When I lived in Ottawa, there was a woman who would "hitchhike" on a major road every day. She was always out there in the same spot. I guess nobody helped her get to her destination.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2023 06:22 PM (R38qh)

360 364 I'm laughing imaging the quality of boards you'd get at Menards if you had to order them, and they decided which ones to put on the conveyor belt.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 22, 2023 06:21 PM (CwhoI

Kinda hard to steal an 8 ft 2x4.

Might make it to your Honda but they'd catch you as you tried to make it fit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:22 PM (5xURv)

361
Perhaps as many as 1,000 parents have to submit DNA samples in the hopes that some burned beyond recognition pile of ashes can be identified as their son or daughter and Joe equates it with the near loss of a 67 Corvette in his garage and 2024 is still in doubt?

This is NOT the country I grew up in. This is demonic shit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 22, 2023 06:24 PM (enJYY)

362 Service Merchandise.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 06:19 PM

They were owned by my former employer. The only thing I remember about it was customers loved not having to deal with salespeople on commission like most of electronics and furniture stores back then.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 22, 2023 06:25 PM (/+bwe)

363 I swear I'm not going to behave well during this new round of Scare Tactics by the assholes in the CDC.

No masks. Fuck you shots.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2023 06:25 PM (5xURv)

364 Remember when Dicks Sporting Goods stopped selling guns and some small gun shop in SC near a school hung out a shingle that said..."We sell AR 15's because we're not Dicks."

I'm still laughing. That small business owner marketing genuis right there.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 22, 2023 06:32 PM (cCxiu)

365 Yes - typo - “No Checks. No Credit”

Businesses can refuse to accept cash is the point here. It’s legal tender in the sense it cannot be refused in payment of a debt. Your county courthouse must accept cash for your property tax payment. They don’t like it, because cash presents problems.

A business or restaurant or chain store, none of them are obligated to take cash, because you haven’t bought anything yet - there is no debt.

Do you see the difference? You could say “Silver dimes only” or “Wampum only” whatever you want.

Payment of taxes is one of the things that makes fiat currency in demand, and thus have a certain value. Even in my company scrip store, sooner or later I have to convert it into coin of the realm. That’s what makes it work, albeit temporarily.

No funny money has ever lasted more than 100 years or so. On that score the USD is a record.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 22, 2023 06:37 PM (XZCs7)

366 IIRC Service Merchandise was neither.

Posted by: Way back when at August 22, 2023 07:01 PM (5u4i3)

367 From each according to their ability to each according to their brazenness.

Posted by: OCBill at August 22, 2023 07:07 PM (+7xwZ)

368 Freaking HEB tried that war on cash, exact change only crap on me. I left the crap in the cart, walked off and replied..keep it, I'm paying zero, which per your request, is EXACT CHANGE.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 22, 2023 07:11 PM (cCxiu)

369 Is stealing an item from a customer after the customer purchases the item a different crime than stealing from the store?

Posted by: goatweed at August 22, 2023 07:42 PM (0Q/6W)

370 Democrats and Soros and all that, but I can’t help but wonder if it ever occurs to blacks that there might come a point at which the forbearance afforded to them by white guilt might run out. 3% of the population is responsible for 50+% of the crime.

Posted by: SMFH at August 22, 2023 08:05 PM (L7Tc9)

371 Sitting in a bar now, haven't seen a mask in months, now see three, including a band member.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 22, 2023 08:06 PM (CQ84g)

372 Stealing from these woke cocksuckers is a patriotic duty.

FJB

Posted by: jbspry at August 22, 2023 08:43 PM (s78zi)

373 Dick's can just eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: ChupaMe at August 22, 2023 11:46 PM (eHzVv)

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