Another example of plantation thinking

[Mik]

Target closed a 10 year old store in Baltimore because it wasn't profitable enough. Locals say they should not have done that because it was 'providing a public service'. If shrinkage was problem they should have 'hired more security or used technology to prevent theft'.

Such a one sided article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/business/target-baltimore-store-closings.html?mc=aud_dev&campaign_id=23848405190050063&ad-keywords=auddevgate&subid1=TAFI&adset_id=23848410753950063&ad_id=23848410754110063&ad_name=INTER_20_XXXX_XXX_1P_CD_XX_XX_SITEVISITXREM_X_XXXX_COUSA_P_X_X_EN_FBIG_OA_XXXX_00_EN_JP_NFLINKS&adset_name=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/business/target-baltimore-store-closings.html&fbclid=IwAR3yMwnIJcQuF9broq5lL-Fb7brhry-9Z6wwcT0zD45kGDgCZB9j7Jv7YDk

[LuFins Dad]

Your whiteness is showing…

Seriously, though.. They opened in late 2015 and shuttered it 2 years later. Think about that for a few minutes. They ate 7 years of a 10 year lease that’s probably a couple of million on top of the $30 million buildout. To walk away in 30 months knowing that it would also be a public affairs nightmare gives you an idea of how bad it was.

I love parts of Baltimore, but have always suspected Batman’s Gotham City is based on that city.

[Mik]

It said it opened in 2008, closed 10 years later.

[LuFins Dad]

@mik said in Another example of plantation thinking:

It said it opened in 2008, closed 10 years later.

Ah, I was skimming and the paragraph about the riots after Freddie Gray in 15 made it read like that was when it opened.

[Mik]

In any event, the same issue still applies - 'what will the plantation owners give us?' as opposed to what do we have to do to be successful?

[Loki]

There is a Shoppers Food and Pharmacy right in the mall. I don’t know what they are talking about with respect to lack of access to drugs etc.

Just fuck off NYT when you can’t include the obvious.

https://www.mondawmin.com/en/directory/shoppers-food-pharmacy-6757.html

[LuFins Dad]

I wonder if Target advertises in the Times?