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the economy is so bad,... (and this isn't a funny joke)

Steve

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Wal-Mart Begins Store Closures on Sunday, Including 2 L.A. Locations

Two days after Wal-Mart announced it would close 269 stores globally-- 154 of which are in the United States -- the mega-retailer began shutting down locations on Sunday, including two in the Los Angeles area.

The Wal-Mart located at 4101 Crenshaw Blvd., in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw neighborhood, and the Neighborhood Market at 701 W. Cesar E Chavez Ave., in Chinatown, were among dozens of locations closing Sunday, according to the company's website.

seems like the obama recovery may take a few more decades..
 

Mike

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Back about 15 years ago the Wal-Mart in Tuskeegee, Alabama closed down making it the first closure EVER for a Wal-Mart. The reason was an excess of "Shrinkage" (Stealing). You guess which part of town this Wal-Mart was in.............

In addition to a bad economy, could there be a "Shrinkage" problem across the entire U.S.?
 

Cowpuncher

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I wonder if the prevalence of self checkout contributes to shrinkage. If you wanted to steal, it wouldn't take much to outsmart
the machine. And they always have one person to monitor the self-checkout. One good cashier could probable do almost as much.
Sam's club, owned by walmart, has a person at the door to check outgoing carts. But all they do is to see if the number of items
agrees with the sales slip.

As a long retired accountant, I always look at how the system works and figure out how it could be beaten.

The biggest deterrent to theft is that most people are honest.

CP
 

loomixguy

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I used to make deliveries to a couple of places on Crenshaw. Nothing makes Homey as nosy as a truck backed up to a store's front door making a delivery. They would gather like flies on you know what to see what a coupla crackas were doing in the hood. They lost interest pretty quick when they noticed the .357 this cracka had tucked in his waistband. Areas along Vermont Avenue and in the Torrance/Lawndale area weren't very safe, either.
 

Brad S

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I had to make a delivery of black hills lumber to a yard up in Detroit. The rule was to call at some predetermined landmark, so they'd be expecting you. As I'm closing in on the delivery point, I see what looks like the Berlin Wall circling where I think I need to go, and there was no opening. As I slowed to figure out where to deliver, I see a community welcoming gathering walking and jogging toward my truck. It was really nice of these guys to take the day off from their jobs just to meet me, but I don't much care for kill whitey social gatherings. Just when I'd dropped into gtf outta there gear, I see the wall parting like the Red Sea. As the wall parted enough to clear a peterbilt, I rolled into the lumberyard and saw the real welcoming committee wielding gorgeous AR15s, and the kill whitey guys went back to their arduous tasks of doing nothing and receiving everything necessary to sustain life for free because someone long ago and unknown got a free boat ride.
 

loomixguy

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I heard horror stories about deliveries in Philly...you didn't dare stop at any lights, you just kept moving til you got where you were headed (at a predetermined time), and you didn't stop to investigate noises or movements you might feel from the truck, even if you thought you had ran over a body.

Those who ultimately got the free boat ride and their generations of spawn have ended up doing far more harm to this country than they ever did good.
 

Faster horses

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Brad S said:
I had to make a delivery of black hills lumber to a yard up in Detroit. The rule was to call at some predetermined landmark, so they'd be expecting you. As I'm closing in on the delivery point, I see what looks like the Berlin Wall circling where I think I need to go, and there was no opening. As I slowed to figure out where to deliver, I see a community welcoming gathering walking and jogging toward my truck. It was really nice of these guys to take the day off from their jobs just to meet me, but I don't much care for kill whitey social gatherings. Just when I'd dropped into gtf outta there gear, I see the wall parting like the Red Sea. As the wall parted enough to clear a peterbilt, I rolled into the lumberyard and saw the real welcoming committee wielding gorgeous AR15s, and the kill whitey guys went back to their arduous tasks of doing nothing and receiving everything necessary to sustain life for free because someone long ago and unknown got a free boat ride.


:shock: Hard to read that out here in 'fly-over country' where we are pretty isolated from such incidences.
 

Steve

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loomixguy said:
I heard horror stories about deliveries in Philly...you didn't dare stop at any lights, you just kept moving til you got where you were headed (at a predetermined time), and you didn't stop to investigate noises or movements you might feel from the truck, even if you thought you had ran over a body.

Those who ultimately got the free boat ride and their generations of spawn have ended up doing far more harm to this country than they ever did good.

most of the worst areas of philly where you would drop deliveries off are pretty well gated up., with guards and all... even NYC isn't all as bad as some would think...

but they are getting bad fast.

Camden County is dunning dozens of towns statewide to recover its costs of training for the county police force officers who then left after a short time to join other jurisdictions.

Since the creation in May 2013 of the Camden County Police Department, which patrols only the city of Camden, more than 100 officers have resigned. At least 50 have taken jobs with other departments, most of them at the Jersey Shore.

While it's common for towns in New Jersey to recoup police training costs, the scale of the effort in Camden - where the county-run police force records some of the highest turnover in the state - is unusual, police and other officials outside Camden said.

"That amount of people, that's massive," said Bob Fox, president of the New Jersey State Fraternal Order of Police and a former Cherry Hill police officer.
 

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