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It's become a convenient lie for stores to make up politically charged reasons for their store closures. For example one of the stores being closed is in the U
by fzeroracer 3y ago
It's become a convenient lie for stores to make up politically charged reasons for their store closures.
For example one of the stores being closed is in the UDistrict here in Seattle. It's one of the worst targets I've ever gone to, with the store consistently having nothing on the shelves, the layout being awful and generally poorly managed.
It's incredibly bad compared to the Safeway or HMart a block away and that's been a consistent experience since it opened up. None of the other stores in the area are struggling with these issues.
- lostmsu 3y agoA friend of mine works in a retail shop in Kirkland, and the shoplifting is rampant. She is often depressed at the end of the day for seeing their work stolen right in front of their eyes and being unable to do anything.
- fzeroracer 3y agoKirkland? Really you say, what neighborhood exactly?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI would guess Totem Lake, Kirkland isn't uniformly nice.
- fzeroracer 3y agoThat's like, 8 years out of date and even then Totem Lake has never been a bad neighborhood, just a sleepy one. The implication by the poster I was responding to was that Kirkland was somehow similar to South Park or something where it has some sketchy parts.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoHuh? Maybe. When I was in high school in Bothell 30 years ago, Totem Lake was where all the shootings were (bad things going down in totem lake became a meme before memes were a thing). They’ve gentrified a bit since then, looking at: https://www.areavibes.com/kirkland-wa/most-dangerous-neighborhoods/ https://www.areavibes.com/kirkland-wa/most-dangerous-neighbo... It seems like downtown Kirkland and even Juanita (now part of Kirkland) are more dangerous now. I guess it really was just the mall.
- lostmsu 3y agoWell, perhaps you are not looking close enough. Shoplifting is not a loud crime.
- lostmsu 3y agoYou are correct.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoBallard is also one of those stores. Whether the actual reason is shoplifting, I saw shoplifting happen often on my visits to that store. It was like...if I was seeing this 50% of the time I was checking out, it must happen every hour or so. > It's incredibly bad compared to the Safeway or HMart a block away and that's been a consistent experience since it opened up. None of the other stores in the area are struggling with these issues. Ballard Safeway has a shoplifting problem, but they lack many of the goods that unhoused neighbors can fence easily for drug money (and stuff that they could is locked up). Hmart is probably even a worse target because they don't offer things like detergent, aspirin, baby milk powder, etc...that would be fenceable at all. I would still love to have an HMart in Ballard, maybe they can take over Target's space that they are vacanting.