Too rough for Walmart
It's become fashionable thse days to get the heck out of Portland. People on both ends of the economic stick are bailing on the place.
On the high end, the outfit that owns the Heathman Hotel just sold it, and they're trying to get rid of the Nines Hotel, too.
On the low end, Walmart's closing both its stores within the Portland city limits. They're not saying why, but the one location, up by the Interstate Bridge, is adjacent to Tent Addict Central. The other, down by Marshall High School, may have similar problems, I don't know. The parking lot shots on Google Street View (see above) sure suggest it.
Man, when your town is too sketchy for Walmart, it's time for a course correction.
I remain surprised Tim Boyle hasn't locked up his Broadway emporium. Likewise, Mario and the Nordstrom brothers, along with Pendleton over on Park. "Too sketchy" is putting it mildly. "Shithole" is more aptly descriptive.
ReplyDeleteTim once delivered an accurate assessment of the city. Which caused the city to double down on it’s objection to his comments.
DeleteGood riddance to the corporate citizen equivalent of a deranged meth addict.
ReplyDeleteSure, run them out. Then the merged Safeway, Albertson's and Freddy's (all such fine corporate citizens themselves) will become one big monopoly ready to gouge everybody who lives here.
DeleteLuckily Winco exists for the budget conscious. And it’s employee owned!
DeleteAs far as I know, Safeway and Kroger have not been guilty of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for its systematic bribery in four different countries, like Walmart has. They haven't been found guilty of violating labor laws and illegal union-busting dozens of times, like Walmart has, and are union shops. They are not notorious serial violators of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act like Walmart is. I could go on with Walmart's criminal history, but you get the idea. Not to mention the small towns across the country whose business community was hollowed out by Walmart through selling below cost until they were the only, or nearly only game in town, only to shut down after a few years.
DeleteIf the beast of Bentonville was an actual person, they would be in prison for a long time. Yeah, the other big grocery stores are not exactly public-benefit organizations, but compared to Walmart, they ain't nearly as bad, even if they do have some repugnant board members. They can't shut them down fast enough for me.
That they cannot make a profit in Portland despite engaging in the corporate malfeasance you allege is evidence of the bigger problem. This City has sunk so low that even alleged corporate criminals cannot survive. A win for social justice virtue signalers? Perhaps. A loss for low income Portlanders with one less place to shop? Definitely.
DeleteNot alleging. Public records, admissions of guilt. May the Waltons rot in hell.
DeleteBetter to rot in hell than in Portland, apparently.
DeleteMayor Weenie says he’s “made for the moment”. The moment of ultimate destruction…
ReplyDeleteA friend of 35 years was carjacked on Wednesday afternoon at 4pm on her way home from work in the inner southeast of town. Her car was found quickly about 6 blocks away wrapped around a utility pole. It’s a total loss. The cops showed up…30 minutes after she was able to call 911.
I am SO upset and angry and I feel helpless to even protest. Obviously the “sh*ty of Portland is irrevocably broken.
And of course WW is blaming the pandemic and the economic slowdown for the sale of some of Portland’s most iconic hotels. Talk about denial.......gotta hold the line on the destruction of western civ.
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DeleteDumpster fires and broken windows scare people. It’s naive to maintain that episode is over.
That’s why downtown Portland is becoming empty.
Every other word out of the Weed is “pandemic.” They’ll be saying it for decades. It’s the lawlessness, stupid!
Delete"It's the lawlessness, stupid!" Should be our new bumper sticker.
DeleteBlaming the pandemic for the economic decline in Portland diverts attention from the activities of BLM and Antifa
Deletehttps://www.portland.gov/bps/cleanenergy#!
ReplyDeletePaying the Clean Energy Surcharge
DeleteOnly Large Retailers are subject to paying the Clean Energy Surcharge. A Large Retailer is a business that has Retail Sales of $1 billion or more everywhere and Retail Sales of $500,000 or more in the City of Portland.
They're keeping their suburban stores around here. No clean energy tax there.
DeletePerhaps "Too Weird" or "Weird Enough" bumper stickers as well?
ReplyDelete"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone."
ReplyDeleteI arrived in PDX as a newborn during the Vanport flood.
ReplyDeleteI've loved her all my life, but something has gone horribly wrong and I've finally figured out that it is not worthwhile to love something that can't love you back.
I left for good a few weeks ago and feel renewed. Yes, Portland is a shithole and I no longer call it home.
My perhaps faulty recollection is Sam Adams took it on himself when he was mayor to see that no more Walmarts would locate in town. Looks like he won the long game.
ReplyDeleteIf Walmart is going, things should be interesting. When the Russian car theft gangs leave, that's when you'll know Portland has hit bottom.
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