Lawless Democrat Portland Loses Its Last Walmart

Elections have consequences. Big box retailers forced out of Democrat-controlled Portland.

Walmart announced it is permanently closing all of its locations in Portland, Oregon.

You reap what you vote.

The announcements come just a few months after the Walmart CEO warned stores could close and prices could increase in light of sky-high retail crimes affecting stores across the country.

“Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in December on CNBC. He added that “prices will be higher and/or stores will close” if authorities don’t crack down on prosecuting shoplifting crimes.

Big Box Retailers Forced Out Of Democrat-Controlled Portland And More

By: Erica Carlin, Liberty One News, march 3, 2023:

Cities under Democrat rule are rapidly becoming lawless. Nowhere is this more evident than in Portland, Oregon, where Mayor Ted Wheeler has refused Nike’s request for help with theft in its Northeast store and Walmart has been forced to close its remaining stores in the city.

The situation at Nike’s store is emblematic of the issues facing businesses in liberal-run cities. The store has been closed for months due to rampant retail theft and Nike asked Mayor Wheeler if the city could either pay to hire additional cops to patrol the area or pay off-duty cops to do so.

But Wheeler refused, citing the city’s “significant personnel constraint” as a result of the city’s “brush with defunding the police”—a ludicrous idea that Portland embraced in 2020, sending experienced officers running for the exits.

Instead, he asked Nike to re-open its store “on a limited basis” and suggested that the company may be part of the problem by refusing to allow its security guards to detain shoplifters. Of course, Nike won’t do that for fear of liability, and it’s no wonder Amazon hasn’t wiped out 100% of local businesses trying to deal with this nonsense.

It’s a similar story for Walmart. The retail giant recently confirmed that it is closing all remaining stores in Portland due to the rise of theft. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon warned in December that the company might have to close stores or raise prices if things didn’t improve.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

And as they say, what small mom-and-pop businesses will step up to take the place of these closed Walmarts? Especially in this toxic climate generated by the likes of Wheeler.

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T D

1 year ago

“…as a result of the city’s “brush with DEFUNDING THE POLICE.”

It doesn’t work. THE DEFUND movement actually ends up killing more black people; and more people period. 300% or more increase in murders in some places. Organized crime takes over too.

At the international level, DEFUNDING the WORLD’S POLICEMAN, the US, has catastrophic consequences as well. When there was no policeman in the world, we had 2 WORLD WARS; The Jewish HOLOCAUST, The Ukrainian Holocaust. And COMMUNISM spread like wildfire in Europe, Asia, then the Americas.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  T D

LIBERALS WANT/NEED TO DEFUND LOCAL POLICE. WHY? SIMPLE.
This gives them a reason to ALLOW THE UNITED NATIONS TO STEP IN AND TAKE OVER. It’s the NWO, remember? THAT IS THEIR MAIN GOAL.

But, wait until they get their wish and find out THAT THESE SAME LIBERALS WILL BE INSIGNIFICANT TO EVEN THE U.N..

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T D

1 year ago

Reply to  TomSJr

There was even one liberal school or city where they were flying the UN flag instead of the American flag.

The UN is suppose to be a place where diplomats can yell at each other as an extra step before going to all out war. But some want it to be a one-world gov’t. which would be a mistake since monopolies don’t work.

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BigJymn

1 year ago

JESUS CHRIST !! Walmart has built it’s empire on the backs of losers since their beginnings. I can’t even fathom what level of “loser” that would even begin to repel Walmart enough to turn away from taking their dollars.

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Staff Sgt Chaos

1 year ago

Walfart is a corrupt organization inside and out. Don’t let their prices fool you. Employees get treated like lowlife’s and they give them the bare minimum, pay, benefits…….$15 an hour isn’t good when you barely get 30 hours a week without real benefits…..been there done that and is a crock of doo doo unless your MANAGEMENT!!!!!

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Norell

1 year ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt Chaos

The higher your earnings the more your taxed, the same with Social Security and increase of $800. a month will put a lot of older people into a higher tax bracket, that equal zero raise. The IRS and Biden really don’t care how much you make, the get it back and more in taxes.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Walmart will be leaving other progressive, commie, demo run cities as well. Hitlery Rotten C used to be on the board of Walmart.

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JoeyJ

1 year ago

Portland will be much improved after Walmart gets out of Dodge. And there will be others to follow such as Costco, Office Depot, Big-5, Fred Meyer, Apple, etc.

Wanna buy something in our fair city? Better have an Amazon account.

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Kagman

1 year ago

Reply to  JoeyJ

They are intercepting Amazon trucks in the streets at ‘pick up points’ and blindly stealing bags/boxes without knowing what’s in them…

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Intrepid

1 year ago

I can’t believe Wheeler is still the mayor of that hellhole.

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Norell

1 year ago

Over the years Milwaukee has lost 2 big shopping centers due to theft.

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ron

1 year ago

Har de har, Serves them right. Wal Mart has had no trouble virtue signaling in the past. Are they going to support MAGA now or more Dems and RINOS?

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Jay

1 year ago

Mark my words: When the “Big Box” stores are shoplifted right out of existence, the bad guys will be forced to steal from online stores and their warehouses.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  Jay

ALL THOSE BIG BOX STORES will ONLY reside in RED STATES as they find out very quickly just how EVIL LIBERALS AND THE WOKE REALLY ARE.

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Barbara

1 year ago

Reply to  Jay

From the article it sounds like the mayor thinks mom and pop stores will fill the gape. NOPE they are smarter than to open a store and financially lose their money to vandalism and theft.

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hans

1 year ago

We have a lady move from Portland to SD. Red state . She said it was because of the crime, drugs and homeless. Then added that she does not understand why folks pick on biden. Old age abuse. Useful idiot .,.

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ATH

1 year ago

When civic government ceases to govern and provide a safe life for the community, locals have two choices: leave the city or take back the government. In some cases that will be done by voting out the enemies of decency, law and order, or by taking up vigilante options.

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Master Turkeychoker

1 year ago

i thought wheeler was smarter than this. of course that was decades ago.

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