Again with the "Food Deserts"?
Rahm, stop already. There's more at play here than you comprehend:
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday took another crack at launching a produce bus project that aims to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to parts of Chicago that lack them after a similar city-backed initiative failed two years ago.
Standing on the grounds of an old Bridgeport trucking depot that has been converted into an urban agriculture farm, Emanuel re-upped one of the aspects of his effort to decrease the city's so-called food deserts.
"That used to be a book mobile," said Emanuel, pointing his thumb toward the bus as an artist spray-painted trees on the bright vehicle. "Now that bus has been rehabbed to serve and make sure communities that do not presently have access to fresh fruits and vegetables at a store, doesn't mean they don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables in their neighborhood, in their community."
Do we really have to explain to the mayor of Chicago why there are so-called "food deserts" in the city?
You see Rahm, there's this thing called "Capitalism." A company, left to its own devices will evaluate the "demand" for certain items and then determine if it can "supply" the items at a cost that produces a "profit" for the owners/shareholders. Then they build a "store" and conduct "business."
Now, government can attempt to "incentivize" businesses to locate in a "desert," but accountants and actuaries can pretty much figure out if it makes sense to rent or build a structure, hire and train staff, stock the shelves and conduct business. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, food stores don't reap much of a profit from certain neighborhoods. Most operate on pretty thin margins already, and adding in the costs of security along with the propensity for "shrinkage," and the outside chance a riot might burn the store to the ground, well, you can imagine it becomes a net negative.
We don't suppose you realize this, since you were handed $11 million for having a degree in interpretive dance or something, but this is how the real world works.
You see Rahm, there's this thing called "Capitalism." A company, left to its own devices will evaluate the "demand" for certain items and then determine if it can "supply" the items at a cost that produces a "profit" for the owners/shareholders. Then they build a "store" and conduct "business."
Now, government can attempt to "incentivize" businesses to locate in a "desert," but accountants and actuaries can pretty much figure out if it makes sense to rent or build a structure, hire and train staff, stock the shelves and conduct business. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, food stores don't reap much of a profit from certain neighborhoods. Most operate on pretty thin margins already, and adding in the costs of security along with the propensity for "shrinkage," and the outside chance a riot might burn the store to the ground, well, you can imagine it becomes a net negative.
We don't suppose you realize this, since you were handed $11 million for having a degree in interpretive dance or something, but this is how the real world works.
Labels: dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
69 Comments:
There is no such thing as a "food desert" in an urban setting. If you want fresh produce you can get it.
Open up a 24 hour pop and chip store and your set for life
Due to pensions you may have actuaries on the mind. Actuaries are usually involved in deciding where a business should be located .
The fifth paragraph fails to list "locating in a city bereft of leadership honest enough and intelligent enough to provide an adequate number of fairly compensated police and an effective court system bent on delivering justice to the victims and the community at large, and an economy robust to invite capitalist investments" on the negative side of the ledger.
I live in a gun shop desert. Can I expect a mobile armory to head this way?
SCC you are right about how the world once worked and in a few far flung places in this country may still work. But don't forget we are living in the transformed progressive world of Obama. We are living in an Obamanation, with a food czar named Moocheal. And Rahm is her disciple.
Now honestly, who in Chicago cannot get to someplace that sells fresh produce, if they really want fresh produce.
Going back to a previous post remember that most of these neighborhoods have FREE (taxpayer bought) school breakfasts and lunches. Why buy when the you can get all you want for the kids at schools. Maybe Rahm should have the schools issue TO-GO boxes and have the kids take the food home instead of trashing most of it.
There was a sign is U.S. Mess Halls during World War II. "Take all you want but eat all you take. General Dwight D. Eisenhower."
So much of the food is wasted in these programs because not only is there no there no discipline but the people involved make more money by wasting food.
In Minneapolis they feed the school children Breakfast, Lunch and an Early Dinner; then they send them home with a backpack full of food. During the Summer, they are sending a lunch wagon to their front doors.
I am waiting for them to open the food shelves right inside the schools. Maybe then the parents might become involved in their childrens school performance? Except how would they handle the EVIL Christian Food Banks being on school grounds?
When will the Whole Foods that was promised be opening?
My neighborhood is a heroin desert. Can find any to buy. Damn, never could. Can you look into it Rahm?
Did anyone check that soil on the old trucking grounds for contaminants before planting a gardne there?
Would yu like your tomatoes leaded or unleaded?
When theft became "shrinkage" and the policy was to let it happen to avoid liability , the exodus began from the Ghetto.........Oppsss sorry Urban Landscape. Amazing how certain gruops can run out a legit business and turn around and bitch about it.
According to Rahm, a bus delivering books is a bad thing?
If Englewood is a food desert then why does it have two very large grocery stores (Food for Less and Aldi) loaded with fruits and vegetables?
Ñeighborhoods that do not have access to friuts and vegetables? How could that be. There is acess to hair salons, droopy pants stores, high end underwear that ride out of your pants, beer stores, stores to buy lottery tickets, places to buy Jordan's, swisher cigars, lighters, white t shirts, places to buy weed,, guns, ammunition, knives, shanks, bunny slide slippers, hair extentions, 22 inch dub wheels and tires, incense sticks, nachos with cheese sauce and peppers, red pop, newports, old English, red hots and even with all of the victory gardens you have to drive in fruits and veggies are you kidding me.....seriously do you know what you said mayor. You are so stupid. You couldn't get some people to eat a carrot to save their lives but they will take yours over a cell phone.
Dyla Hata
That's funny! True but funny! Then again maybe not so funny cause it's true!
I heard that the concept idea actually belongs to our former Superintendent.
A 'mobile' (produce) vehicle serving the high crime area.
Give credit where due, the idea is ingenious.
While 'serving' the community, when there's a drive-by, they drive-off.
They're considering calling it the Weis-wagon.
"Here's your LINK card back, gotta run."
...and so I heard.
It would be a more successful and well-patronized delivery service if they handled what they really run out and buy.
Hey, do the market demographics and see what they consume before you put a truck out.
This carpet bagger is not living in the real world
You've got to see the irony here. What was once a "book mobile", yeah remember those, will now bring produce to the food deserts. So they obviously gave up on the desert of the minds in these neighborhoods and think feeding them greens might help. Rahm probably has never heard the old saying about teaching a man to fish.
That van sure in the fuck wasn't used by "Food Desert" folks when it contained books, and something tells me it's not going to be used when it contains fruits and vegetables.
Well all that and also how things seem to mysteriously vanish out the back door - which destroys the balance sheet and makes it necessary for companies to leave .
How about a liquor-mobile? They would be following it around like the Pied-Piper.
JUST A CITIZEN: I don't have a college education but somehow even I know that every single grocery store sells fruits and vegetables. So now just because the lazy ass leeches won't buy fruit and vegetables for themselves, we (taxpayers) have to make sure they are eating right? if they wanted to eat fruit and vegetables, they'd buy them instead of junk food. I think this is racist, only focusing on the south side neighborhoods. maybe the kids on the north side want to eat junk food - why can't they have a junk food truck? Why is this entire god-damned country so concerned about what the south side neighborhood is doing and thinking and saying and yearning for? GET A FUCKING JOB AND SUPPORT YOURSELF. I have to take a break from reading my beloved SCC in the mornings cuz my blood pressure is rising.......
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
Hey rahm, haven't you heard the old idiom, you can lead a horse to water if people don't eat fruits and vegetables it's very hard to make them. Now if your book mobile was converted to a flaming hots and purple pop mobile...
I go nuts every time I hear anyone say food desert this ain't the middle of a desert its a big city get on a fukin bus walk a couple blocks call a cab BAM a grocery store. Or walk to the corner there's a slop shop on every corner in the ghetto of chiraq.
I work at the 18th District (Near North) when I drive around the Marshal Field homes, I see the Kids eating chips(flaming Cheetos) and juice they can go to the Jewel a block away and get fruits ,But chose not to it's there choice.
Take all those empty lots in the "food deserts" like Englewood and grow giant vegtiable farms. Geez how hard is that??
Chips and Juice make me Bullet Proof.
More deluxe, very-best, exclusive city services for the South and West sides.
Black Privilege. Tax-subsidized institutional racism.
Enough shiny SUVs in the community zooming up the sidewalk flattening babies in carriages after committing a shooting, but no transportation available to go and buy a bunch of celery.
Yeah, right.
Mobile armory? Lmfao. You, sir have made my day.
to 7/12/2015 10:11:00 AM:
Yeah, I'm so certain that Jewel and Kroger base their business plan on "respect." Are you actually reading what SCC wrote and applying it to real life or are the unicorns and cotton candy blocking your view? Banks didn't exist in the ghetto because the security costs and reinforcement of the building are cost prohibitive, and I doubt you could produce any legitimate study that says otherwise.
Most of the inhabitants of these food deserts wouldn't know what to do with fresh produce. Do they even teach such things as Home Economics in schools anymore. I grew up watching cooking shows and I just can't imagine some of our Desert Denizens watching them.
Cooking wasn't taught in school or TV it was such a part of family life growing up and it was taught parent to child. It was how to pick good produce from the supermarket shelves and how to look for seasonal bargains.
Asparagus is racist.
Hey SCC!
Stop continuously demonstrating to Rahm that he is nowhere
near the smart and politically savvy super middle-man/fixer/
financial/governmental insider and go-to guy he rather fancies
himself as being.
He's already beside himself because his national ambitions and
the ultimate financial lick he desires to hit, are screaming and
desperately yanking on the locked burglar gates while burning
to charred skeletons.
Amusing to watch the North Shore Shit-Ass running around with
his eyes wet and bulging out of their sockets with the first real
fear he's ever felt in his life.
Slapping his "propeller-head" minions upside their heads and
screeching: "IDEAS! I NEED MORE FUCKING IDEAS!
Fuck! I shoulda just said fuck the law and made those coppers,
firemen and teachers take a shitty haircut when I first got to this
cow town and told the papers I saved billions! Then I coulda blew
this joint and been back in D.C. before the smoke cleared and
anybody caught on!"
Minion #1: "Well, we can always dirty-up those greedy Coppers
who don't wanna let us use their pension money, right boss?"
Minion #2: "Hey! How about ANOTHER incarnation of the fruit & veggie bus?
Just re-purpose a book-bus, give the press a heads-up and we can ride the
spin into the week-end to deflect from all the killing going on."
Or some such...
So much "busyness" in order to be seen as doing "something"
while the flames started with his very own hands are now spreading
and igniting nearby structures.
And when the embers are cooling and Rahm sees the fused together, crispy skeletal remains
of "national ambitions and ultimate financial lick," it may just dawn on him that in all his
excitement, he had the keys to the burglar gates on a string around his neck.
Hmmmm...
Something about blowing into a cow town and picking very unnecessary
fights with the people who help make it go. However imperfectly at that...
Shit happens when you only have corporatist bean-counters as counsel.
Who comes off being smarter than whom now?
Just another old, tired Blueshirt with many years of courtesy seating
(Behind the wheel of a squad) at the shit-show that IS Chicago.
Motherfuckers ain't nothin' if they ain't funny but the true tragedy
is that so much of the current condition was so easily preventable.
Well... Maybe if any of the principals had a "True North" on their
moral compass and tried to adhere to it?
...Another Sunday rant.
Be safe, watch out for each other.
Police like you have no friends.
Do your time.
Survive.
Escape.
Collect.
Take pleasure in these because
you're seen somehow as a cheat
for your "success" and many will
begrudge you for the crust of
bread that you worked for.
Retirement IS an honorable win.
Thanks for posting my rant, we can agree to disagree. My point is, South Shore for example there should be decent grocery stores in walking distance, not miles apart. Again, the lies and myths about black people storming the banks and stores with rampant theft are not true. Not even close. And posters here continue to bring up school breakfast and lunch. Have you really seen that shit they serve? There is a reason the kids do not eat it, Cook County feeds the prisoners better, also that is a forced program from the government. FACT. Thanks for posting my rant.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
7/12/2015 10:11:00 AM
I've worked in grocery stores all over the city, sent in to 'fix' underperforming stores. (Translate 'underperforming' to 'less profitable than our comparable stores'.)
If you think there isn't a HUGE shoplifting problem in bad neighborhoods, you have your head planted firmly in the sand. Underperforming stores get CLOSED because owners are in business to make MONEY.
7/12/2015 11:41:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
to 7/12/2015 10:11:00 AM:
Yeah, I'm so certain that Jewel and Kroger base their business plan on "respect." Are you actually reading what SCC wrote and applying it to real life or are the unicorns and cotton candy blocking your view? Banks didn't exist in the ghetto because the security costs and reinforcement of the building are cost prohibitive, and I doubt you could produce any legitimate study that says otherwise.
7/12/2015 12:39:00 PM
Man oh MAN!
Memories...
Kroger.
National.
A&P.
And just for fun we'll throw in:
The old corner Walgreens. (Hmmm... Ok.)
Rexall. ("Huh?")
Woolworths. (Whooo! Way back!)
Community. (Whooo! Way WAY back! ;^)
Gee! What happened to all these "neighborhood"
institutions from our once upon-a-time long ago?
"You old and bitter cops always going on about the past!
It's a NEW day now so get over it!"
Mmm-Hmm...
SPOT ON SCC!!!!! If I was the owner of a business I wouldn't relocate SHIT to the hood. Just for the reasons you stated. But the moonbats don't want to hear the truth. Oh no!!!
You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
Lame brain, they do not throw the stuff they are stealing in a bag and walk out !
Its a battle with your help, placing your merchandise out the back door with the garbage, and a friend walking by and stealing it ! Or the cashiers ringing up 100.00 worth of groceries for $6.50.Every store owner knows you lose more out the back door, than the front ! Now why did you move ?
Dear Mr. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. You are full of shit. Business only knows one color,GREEN.
The chains would trip over themselves if they could open stores in Roseland or Englewood and be profitable.
Orange Jubilee MD20/20, Chilli Chetos and Grape Cool-Aid isn't good enough anymore?
These aren't food deserts - they're people deserts.
Hey SCC, I thought you meant Food Dessert like there ain't no Dairy Queens or Fannie May's around here.
I was goin' say YES we needs more Dessert places. We needs the four basic foods groups - Ice Cream, Candy, Cake, and cookies.
That veggie bus has been in service for afew years, this is nothing new. I think it was in sewrvice before Rahm became Mayor. I am confused.
Get on board the funky Double Dutch fruit bus,We dont care for chips and juice,We going to make you tight.Get on board Now !
Anonymous said...
How about a liquor-mobile? They would be following it around like the Pied-Piper.
7/12/2015 09:47:00 AM
Oh yeah, for those liquor deserts.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
7/12/2015 10:11:00 AM
Bullshit. Businesses exist to make a profit, not to give respect or not. If they made a good profit, they would be there. If they didn't get shoplifted to death they would be there. If the employees didn't rob them blind they would be there. If sis didn't under ring bags of groceries to mom they would be there.
It is simple math, profit brings more retail stores, grocery and otherwise. Nothing else. Profit. Lack of profit drives them away. Not lack of respect.
Anonymous said...
When will the Whole Foods that was promised be opening?
7/12/2015 02:53:00 AM
Pm the north side they call Whole Foods Whole Paycheck. I live near one and it is too expensive for me. How the hell will ghetto dwellers pay their prices? I will have to go there when it opens and compare prices. If prices are lower than near my house, that shit is going on YouTube or I'll call Pam Zeckman or Chuck Goudy or Dave Savini.
The New York Times dispelled the myth of "food deserts."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html?_r=0
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
Oh, where to begin? Wouldn't a business that wants to turn a profit want to invest in an area where there would be little to no competition? Why, yes, a capitalist free market system such as the one we live in would certainly encourage such a profitable venture. Can we explore some of the reasons why, despite the obvious opportunity to make a buck, there are so few food establishments in these "underserved" food deserts? Well, I can speculate, but then, I would be accused of being racist. Feel free to discuss....
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
_________________
Out of curiosity, why is it that the grocery stores moved out of the area? I legitimately don't know the answer, but if this is a middle class working neighborhood, why would the grocery stores walk away from paying customers that could improve their bottom line?
I read your blog from time to time but this article here is fucking bullshit. I used to live in the South Shore area. Lived there for a good twenty years. We had two grocery stores in walking distance. Both are gone now I have since moved out of the area. There were no riots,there were not people walking or running out of the stores stealing food. Where the fuck do you get this bullshit from? These are the same damn lies told about bank branches in black areas, that black people do not use banks they prefer to risk their lives cashing checks at currency exchanges and paying bills by money orders. That lie was proven wrong. The lack of grocery stores in certain areas is a total lack of respect. Period. And to write this bullshit is sickening. You can write all the crime stories you want, those are true, but damn man. No one is running out of the stores stealing food or asking for free shit. People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
I can't speak on the grocery store issue, but I've worked with black coppers that I have personally seen cash their checks at the currency exchange. I'm not suggesting that they all do it, but maybe it's just enough for certain banks to avoid tutor neighborhoods. I wild my be interested in going away portions of my check to cash it at the currency exchange, but to each their own.
On average, grocery stores operate on a 3% profit margin. But when their insurance and security costs are higher to begin with.... and then you consider the "shrinkage" write-offs (theft and soiled goods) that happen with lots of businesses anyway, you're looking at a bad risk. And if it weren't that 20 Million dollar grant to Whole Foods, they wouldn't even dream of opening in Englewood. But I guess you have to start somewhere.... I hope this project works ?
"Thanks for posting my rant, we can agree to disagree."
7/12/2015 02:16:00 PM
No, we will tell you flat-out that you are full of s__t.
"My point is, South Shore for example there should be decent grocery stores in walking distance, not miles apart."
A. You never walked anywhere in your life.
B. "Food Desert" North/Harlem. No elaborate city foodbus.
"Again, the lies and myths about black people storming the banks and stores with rampant theft are not true. Not even close."
Baltimore proves it. Nearly 400 businesses damaged. Not to mention East Rogers Park, both Jewel and the lovely natural food store next door shut down by unsustainable shoplifting, attacks on/robberies of customers in the parking lots, etc.
"Cook County feeds the prisoners better..."
Is that a fact? Complete this phrase. "Pink P-----"
You ARE full of s__t. Go crawl under something and just stay there.
Profit wont happen if the Store's need 10 loss prevention agents.
How about a fruits and 40s bus? Strawberry Margaritas! Colt 45 Yea baby.
Google, New York Times food deserts myth,good article.
FOOD DESERTS are grocery stores that cannot afford to deal with shop lifters , pan handlers and robbery of their business and customers
Its face time for the Politicians, trying to pretend its not the kids fault they are fat,Sorry but I love Soul food and I know its fattening.
Lets begin here. There was a Dominick's on the corner of 71st and Jeffrey. There was also one on the corner of 115th and Kedzie. I remember when a police officer had to shoot and kill an armed shoplifter at 71st and Jeffrey. How many times did that happen at 115th and Kedzie?
Thus endeth the lesson.
7/13/2015 10:18:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about a fruits and 40s bus? Strawberry Margaritas! Colt 45 Yea baby.
7/13/2015 10:21:00 AM
Y'all got some Malt Duck on this here bus?
Damn... What was that beer in the green bottles with
the pictographic riddles in the cap?
What happened to that grocery store an outfit wanted to build -- south side, I think -- and the project got a lot of threats, intimidation, and shakedown attempts? Did they finish the place, or just take their tools and go home and leave the vacant lot?
When the Jewel on Morse Avenue was driven out of business by the shoplifting inside and robberies and attacks on customers outside, the Dominick's over on Ridge began running a shuttle bus from the Morse location to their store.
Oh no.
The "elderly" didn't get much good out of it -- it was all people rushing out the door with their jackets bulging and s__t falling out, grinning like fools. Of course, the store personnel ignored it and instead followed a middle-aged white guy around, watching that he paid for that carton of smokes. "Don't look at me. You're busing your theft problem in."
After a while, the bus was very quietly discontinued.
Yeah, there was a "lack of respect" -- and it wasn't on the part of the stores.
"Again, the lies and myths about black people storming the banks and stores with rampant theft are not true. Not even close."
7/13/2015 01:46:00 AM
Yeah, that is why everything in ghetto stores is behind 2"-thick Plexiglas. Have to ask for the can of beans and put your money up front into this rotating thing. Then the beans come out, and not until.
...and that surveillance photo of the guy with the gun in his belt robbing the bank I'd just been to the day before was undoubtedly a phony.
...and all these scenes of people smashing stolen vans through the doors of fancy stores and grabbing everything they can carry are all made up, as are the flashmob assaults on shopping malls.
...and these photos of people looting 30 pharmacies and clinics in Baltimore are all a setup with paid actors.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-dea-suspect-photos-20150611-story.html
Aside from the huge street drug problem and gang turf wars this has triggered, pharmacy customers will now fall victim to identity theft from all of the stolen prescription information...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/prescriptions-looted-baltimore-expose-personal-data-article-1.2246305
You're right. This is all made up.
"People live in South Shore working people, senior citizens, that Walgreens on 71st and Jeffrey is packed because of a lack of a real grocery store. WTF
7/12/2015 10:01:00 PM
"People live around North/Harlem, working people, senior citizens, and have to buy overpriced packaged food at CVS (back and forth across dangerous Harlem Avenue) because the Dominick's closed, and the new Walgreen's probably won't be ready for another year -- not that that is a grocery store either. We badly needed a nice fruit market on the corner, right where Blockbuster moved out when it died -- we got an expensive chain "health food" store filled with jars and bottles of expensive pills and organic f__ing dog food and "toilet paper made from recycled materials." It doesn't look like it's doing much business."
You get this situation in many parts of town.
71/Jeffrey was real nice 50 years ago. IC train, our doctor was there, used to go shopping, etc. Like you say, you've moved away now...it's sad.
God bless and stay safe, my friend.
Rule -- if you have access to an automobile, the "food desert" does not exist for you.
It's the genuinely poor and elderly who have the real problems. Where can you get to, and how many bags can you carry back while struggling over the snow and ice with a walker. Daley laughed at us about CTA cutbacks -- "No one has to walk more than four to eight blocks to find a bus..." You try it sometime on a good day, let alone when it's 0 or 100 out there.
...and why is it that, every Thanksgiving and Christmas, I see morbidly obese people on TV lined up outside their churches to grab another free Butterball? It's like north side collects and gives, south/west sides take. And take.
Most "charity" web sites have a "DONATE" button to click -- but no "I NEED HELP" button. Go figure.
A family member of mine worked at the Morse Ave Jewel,Hearing gun fire was an everday thing.
Post a Comment
<< Home