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Big-box stores closing down due to rising RETAIL THEFT

April 20, 2023 -

Walmart led the charge by closing as many as four stores in Chicago. The store closures in the Windy City followed similar moves in Portland, where the Arkansas-based company closed down locations due to being "unprofitable."

"The simplest explanation is that collectively, our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago," Walmart said in a statement. "These stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses ...

American businesses, big-box stores increasingly rejecting CASH as forced shift to cashless society accelerates

January 31, 2024 -

Upwards of one billion people worldwide currently do not have a bank account, which means that they, too, are in trouble once stores in their native lands decide to scrap cash and switch to a cashless model of digital, and easily trackable, payment systems.

In larger cities like Seattle and Los Angeles, "No cash accepted" signs are popping up everywhere, including on the windows or stores that claim to be "inclusive." Nothing says inclusive quite like refusing customers ...

Customers face long waiting times at big-box retailers as companies LOCK UP ITEMS to stop thieves

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"In a significant effort to address the increasing problem of shoplifting, [the two] major retailers have taken an unprecedented step by placing essential items such as underwear and socks under lock and key," 100 Percent Fed Up said. "This move highlights the severity of theft issues affecting retailers across the country, with losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars."

Shannon Thaler of the New York Post expounded on the issue, citing the shopping trips of several ...

Huge decline in cardboard box sales indicates RECESSION

August 08, 2023 -

In a July 24 press release, the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) reported that cardboard box sales dropped 9.8 percent in the second quarter of 2023. The number was among the largest drops, ranking next to the 12.7 percent slump in the first quarter.

According to FreightWaves Research, the combined six-month decline of 22.5 percent in sales of PCA's cardboard boxes is the largest drop since early 2009. The company has now witnessed year-on-year downturns for the ...

FBI’s safe deposit box searches and seizures violated owners’ Fourth Amendment rights, appeals court rules

January 31, 2024 -

The incident involved a Beverly Hills safe deposit box company known as U.S. Private Vaults, who offered the boxes for rent to clients who value privacy and anonymity. While some may argue this attracted parties involved in illegal activities such as drug dealing, it also drew in customers who do not trust banks and wanted an alternative place to keep their most valuable possessions and documents.

Agents raided the business, believing that criminals were using it. Although ...

Nike CLOSES flagship Portland store due to rampant THEFT

September 12, 2023 -

"Nike's commitment to supporting and uplifting Portland's North and Northeast community is unwavering," the company said in a statement – keep in mind that Nike is based out of Oregon, which makes this look really, really bad for the state.

"We are reimagining Nike's retail space, permanently closing our current location at 2650 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and considering future locations as part of this community's long term revitalization plan. True to our ...

South Korean convenience store rolling out vending machines that SELL GOLD

June 27, 2023 -

GS Retail, with nearly 14,000 branches all over South Korea, reported that it has already sold a total of $19 million worth of gold bars in the past nine months ending in May. The gold bars were introduced in September 2022 at five of its stores in five sizes, weighing between 0.13 ounces to 1.3 ounces.

"The most popular gold bar is the smallest, the 0.13-ounce one, which is currently priced at around $225," said one representative of GS Retail to UPI News Korea, who added ...

Unlabeled GMO salad greens coming to a grocery store near you

June 12, 2023 -

CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat, was used to edit the DNA of mustard greens, removing a key gene that gives them their pungent flavor.

Set to first be rolled out at restaurants in the St. Louis and Springfield areas of Missouri, as well as in Massachusetts and the Minneapolis – St. Paul area, Conscious Greens Purple Power Baby Greens Blend will eventually be sold at grocery stores all across the United States, starting with ...

T-Mobile CLOSES DOWN flagship San Francisco store amid city’s chaos

May 10, 2023 -

According to the Post Millennial, T-Mobile closed its two-level flagship store at the upscale Union Square area back in April. An employee assigned to T-Mobile's Mission Street location attested to the closure, which left 17,000 square feet of retail space vacant.

A spokesperson for the telecom firm said in a statement to SFGATE that the closure of the Union Square location was part of an effort to reshape T-Mobile's retail strategy. The spokesperson added that affected ...

Disney announces price hikes for Disney+ and Hulu ad-free plans to compensate for several box-office flops

August 21, 2023 -

Starting October 12, Disney+ Premium will see a price hike from $11 to $14 per month, while Hulu without ads will jump from $15 to $17.99 per month. These price hikes represent an increase of 20-27 percent for both services' standalone premium plans in the United States.

This will be the second price increase in Disney+ streaming service within a year. In December 2022, the subscription cost was raised as part of Disney's effort to better align with the perceived value ...

Trans agenda is straight out of pedophilia playbook, says agent depicted in box office hit “Sound of Freedom”

July 12, 2023 -

Tim Ballard, the real-life former government agent depicted in the film by "Passion of the Christ" star Jim Caviezel, spoke with Fox News this week about the bizarre QAnon claims about the film coming from the likes of The Washington Post, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, Media Matters, The Guardian (United Kingdom) and others.

"I can't explain it, and neither can they," Ballard said about how the media outlets making the claim that "Sound of Freedom" involves QAnon have zero basis ...

Nike drops plan to reopen Portland community store, confirms its closure is PERMANENT

September 25, 2023 -

A statement from Nike earlier in September stated that its Nike Unite Factory Store in northeastern Portland will no longer reopen. It was originally slated to reopen on May 1 following an "indefinite hiatus" last year, prompted by a rise in shoplifting. Prior to its permanent closure, the store first opened in 1984 and transferred to its current location in 2000.

The sportswear giant closed the factory store, the first one in its history, in October 2022. While the ...

Woke entertainment is a JOKE! Disney LOST at least $1B this year alone due to a string of box office bombs

September 03, 2023 -

Overall, Hollywood's profits have crashed as theater audiences dropped by 50 percent in the past four years. Disney in particular incurred at least $1 billion in losses this year due to a string of major box office failures. The company's stock recently plunged to a nine-year low.

Subscriber losses continued over the last three months, with the company reporting 146.1 million Disney+ subscribers during the most recent quarter, a 7.4 percent decline. Disney recorded ...

Convenience store chain accused of DISCRIMINATION for requiring applicants to have no criminal record

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced via an April 18 press release that it had filed a lawsuit against 24/7 convenience store chain Sheetz. It accused the company of having discriminatory hiring practices that targeted minority applicants.

The lawsuit filed in a federal court in the state of Maryland alleges that Sheetz has maintained a long-standing practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction, and then denying them employment ...

Jury finds Google guilty of turning app store and billing service into unlawful MONOPOLY

December 14, 2023 -

The jury delivered its verdict on Dec. 11, affirming the search engine giant's monopolistic control in app distribution and in-app billing services on the Android platform – itself a Google creation. According to jurors, Google's practices stifled competition and harmed Epic Games, the creator of the "Fortnite" game franchise.

The North Carolina-based Epic Games sued the California-based tech giant in the Epic v. Google lawsuit. The trial spanned over four weeks and ...

TIPFLATION: Workers at first unionized Apple store in Maryland want MANDATORY TIPPING at checkouts

May 17, 2023 -

According to the Daily Mail, workers at the Apple store at Maryland's Towson Town Center want the Cupertino, California-based tech giant to put in place an option for customers using their credit cards to tip staff. It added that the workers want either a custom tip amount or between three percent and five percent of the price of an item a customer buys. In other words, they want mandatory tipping at checkouts.

Putting the gratuity into perspective, a five percent top on ...

Big Tech and Big Government to subsidize salaries of MSM journalists in Canada

December 12, 2023 -

LifeSiteNews expounded on the $100 million agreement involving search engine giant Google and the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The outlet also cited the augmented subsidies from Ottawa as outlined in the Fall Economic Statement. These two, LifeSiteNews said, are poised to significantly subsidize the salaries of MSM journalists.

Rudyard Griffiths, journalist and executive director of Canadian news site The Hub, said journalists earning up to ...

Health Ranger Store donates $155K+ to food banks to help feed and nourish hungry Americans

May 04, 2023 -

In the video below, the Health Ranger displays three pallets of boxes all filled with numerous popular health food items from the Health Ranger Store, including 3,840 bottles of vitamin D3, valued at over $56,000; $11,000 worth of certified organic Superfood C powder containing acerola cherry, baobab, and camu camu berry; and 1,000 packages, worth about $30,000, of buffered vitamin C, which is easy on the stomach, does not come from China, and is non-GMO.

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BIG BRIBES: Big Tech spent at least $250M to kill regulatory proposals in Congress

July 10, 2023 -

The National Pulse's Jack Montgomery shed light on the scheme in a July 7 article, claiming that the tech giants shelled out huge amounts to block any bills limiting their censorship of conservatives.

"Republicans concerned about censorship worked alongside Democrats championing unions to pass bills with bipartisan majorities. None of them made it to the floor of either chamber of Congress, despite public support for regulating Big Tech," he wrote.

According to Montgomery's ...

EIGHT key body systems are under PERPETUAL ATTACK by Big Food and Big Pharma

May 22, 2023 -

Those same consumers develop symptoms of "bad food disease" (BFD) and they begin suppressing those signs with over-the-counter medications, which is about as smart as cutting the wire to the "check engine" light on an automobile and thinking that might fix the problem.

After a few days or weeks of covering up all the symptoms of BFD, these same folks head off to their allopathic doctor, who has ZERO college education or training in nutrition, who says all the problems are ...