Burned and Looted Ferguson Convenience Store Oddly Uninterested in Reopening

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It’s what Michael Brown would have wanted

I can’t imagine why. Most stores just love being burned and looted. It makes them twice as eager to reopen. Especially when the looting and burning happened after a robber who violently stole from another store was shot by police.

On August 10, 2014, the Ferguson, Missouri, the local QuikTrip was looted and torched during riots over the shooting death of 18 year-old Michael Brown.

A QuikTrip official told The Gateway Pundit the company has no plans on rebuilding in Ferguson and that the looted store was barely breaking even.

This is where so-called Food Deserts come from.

Stores in bad areas are not that profitable because prices are low and security and loss costs are high. They have to depend on volume and if there are disruptions, then the whole business plan collapses.

Also the lost jobs will increase unemployment. The same unemployment that the protesters are complaining about.

The kind of stores that will open and run in places like Ferguson are…

1. Third World businesses that use family members as cheap labor (no local jobs added)

2. Depend on lottery tickets, liquor and cigarettes for revenue (bad for the community)

3. Run scams on the side, e.g. smuggled cigarettes, lottery cheats, EBT for cash

Instead of making it easier for better stores to open and create jobs, the misery just gets perpetuated.

But there’s an answer. Holder can just sue QuikTrip for discrimination and force it to reopen.

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We love our children too. Please think before you rob, beat, knock out game, rape and kill them. Then they’ll be less likely to be shot by police and you can spend more time enjoying your disability payments instead of holding up stupidly self-righteous signs in the hot sun.

Also please think before you loot and burn your own neighborhood’s stores to the ground.

It’s in your own interest really.

Thanks

  • Enzo

    Detroit has gotten somewhat good at just tearing everything down.

    • Pete

      Will Detroit Be The First Major Chinese City In The United States?

      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-06/will-detroit-be-first-major-chinese-city-united-states

      Keep it up Democrat Party!

      • Hyrdr

        The Chinese will farm the empty lots and chase the blight out.

        • Pete

          An empty lot that used to be a gas station is more than an eye sore. It is not worth anything until the underground tanks are dug out.

          You have to wonder what is in the ground that has leached out from whatever from industrial sites or even suburbs.

      • Hyrdr

        Governor Snyder is a Republican.

        • Pete

          If governor Snyder (Assumed office
          January 1, 2011) had not taken over the Detroit or placed it in receivership or whatever, would Detroit have not been bankrupt?

          Detroit did not get the was it was overnight.

          Detroit started dying in the 1960s. See the graph. Some of it is people with money wanting to move to the burbs for elbow room. But IMO the main culprit is the Democrat Party.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder

          So Democrat Governors and Democrat mayors had nothing to do with this? This a variation of the one drop rule? You just have to find one Republican office holder in the years since the peak (the nearer in time the better) and blame them?

          ***
          BTW at a quick glance I am impressed Governor Snyder. He is a CPA and has a JD. He is much better than some of these other JD cumm politicians. If you dumped him anywhere else in the U.S. and said you could not work in politics, lobbying, or a nonprofit or the media, he could find a job and do well. How many other politicians can do that?

          ***
          F_cking DiqQUs and a low brow populace.

          Cum may refer to:
          A Latin word, which can be either the preposition with or a conjunction meaning when, because, or although.
          An English linking word, derived from the Latin word for ‘with.’ It is used in many place names in England as well as in everyday Englis

        • Pete

          If governor Snyder (Assumed office
          January 1, 2011) had not taken over the Detroit or placed it in receivership or whatever, would Detroit have not been bankrupt?

          Detroit did not get the was it was overnight.

          Detroit started dying in the 1960s. See the graph. Some of it is people with money wanting to move to the burbs for elbow room. But IMO the main culprit is the Democrat Party.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder

          So Democrat Governors and Democrat mayors had nothing to do with this? This a variation of the one drop rule? You just have to find one Republican office holder in the years since the peak (the nearer in time the better) and blame them?

          ***
          BTW at a quick glance I am impressed Governor Snyder. He is a CPA and has a JD. He is much better than some of these other JD cumm politicians. If you dumped him anywhere else in the U.S. and said you could not work in politics, lobbying, or a nonprofit or the media, he could find a job and do well. How many other politicians can do that?

          ***
          F_cking DiqQUs and a low brow populace.

          Cu_m may refer to:
          A Latin word, which can be either the preposition with or a conjunction meaning when, because, or although.
          An English linking word, derived from the Latin word for ‘with.’ It is used in many place names in England as well as in everyday English

        • Pete

          If governor Snyder (Assumed office
          January 1, 2011) had not taken over the Detroit or placed it in receivership or whatever, would Detroit have not been bankrupt?

          Detroit did not get the was it was overnight.

          Detroit started dying in the 1960s. See the graph. Some of it is people with money wanting to move to the burbs for elbow room. But IMO the main culprit is the Democrat Party.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder

          So Democrat Governors and Democrat mayors had nothing to do with this? This a variation of the one drop rule? You just have to find one Republican office holder in the years since the peak (the nearer in time the better) and blame them?

          ***
          BTW at a quick glance I am impressed Governor Snyder. He is a CPA and has a JD. He is much better than some of these other JD cu_m politicians. If you dumped him anywhere else in the U.S. and said you could not work in politics, lobbying, or a nonprofit or the media, he could find a job and do well. How many other politicians can do that?

          ***
          F_cking DiqQUs and a low brow populace.

          Cu_m may refer to:
          A Latin word, which can be either the preposition with or a conjunction meaning when, because, or although.
          An English linking word, derived from the Latin word for ‘with.’ It is used in many place names in England as well as in everyday English

        • Pete

          If governor Snyder (Assumed office
          January 1, 2011) had not taken over the Detroit or placed it in receivership or whatever, would Detroit have not been bankrupt?

          Detroit did not get the way overnight.

          Detroit started dy-ing in the 1960s. See the graph. Some of it is people with money wanting to move to the burbs for elbow room. But IMO the main culprit is the Democrat Party.

          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit
          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder

          So Democrat Governors and Democrat mayors had nothing to do with this? This a variation of the one drop rule? You just have to find one Republican office holder in the years since the peak (the nearer in time the better) and blame them?

          ***
          BTW at a quick glance I am impressed Governor Snyder. He is a CPA and has a JD. He is much better than some of these other JD become politicians. If you dumped him anywhere else in the U.S. and said you could not work in politics, lobbying, or a nonprofit or the media, he could find a job and do well. How many other politicians can do that?

          ***
          F_cking DiqQUs and a low brow populace.

          Cu m may refer to:
          A Latin word, which can be either the preposition with or a conjunction meaning when, because, or although.
          An English linking word, derived from the Latin word for ‘with.’ It is used in many place names in England as well as in everyday English

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Daniel, you can be forgiven, but I think you are overestimating the intelligence and ability to grasp basic economics and cause and effect of these people. Like Muslims who come here with a shopping list of entitlements (“respect” for Islam and Muslims, foot baths in every airport and business and public park, halal food served in restaurants and prisons, and so on), the Ferguson crowd thinks that convenience stores are also what they’re entitled to, because they’ poor and oppressed. Perhaps you’re not overestimating them, because your mockery of them lurks beneath your prose. That always brings a smile to my face.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      What they’re told is that food deserts are part of the “system of oppression” that justify the riots.

      IOW, always the white man’s fault. Neo-Marxism gives them a framework for constantly manufacturing these claims and they do it with a straight face. They’re not joking.

      Cycle of Violence anyone? Refusing to reopen the store is “morally equivalent” to the violence that destroyed it.

      I can do this all day long.

  • Justin St.Denis

    Ferguson residents, by all indications, enjoy an average IQ in the “moron” range.

  • Contemptuous Maximus

    Perhaps the community organizers could put their minds to teaching them to burn down crack houses instead of food stores.

    • Pete

      Perhaps Bill Gates, Bill Clinton or the Obamas could replant some business there and have the run as ESOPs, Charity starts at home and then you work out. ST LOUIS IS NEAR THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF THE U.S. YOU STUPID DEMOCRAT LEADERS!

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership_plan

      This would keep food deserts from cropping up.

      Ferguson is almost 500 miles due east of the geographic center Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the U.S.

      • tagalog

        A good many years ago, the blaxploitation folks gave away their game when the Symbionese Liberation Army (“Death to the Fascist Insect Who Preys on the Life of the People”) extorted Patty Hearst’s father to send trucks into the “ghetto” to deliver free food to the inhabitants.

  • Pete

    Quick Trip (QT) stores 1 through 4 are closest to or in Ferguson.

    It could be the (QT) store 4 at the corner of New Halls Ferry Road & Dunn Road. It is on the north side of I-270 & just outside of Ferguson.

    Supposedly there is a QT (#1 ) at Harneywold Drive and West Florissant Avenue but google map does not show it. It does show a gas station at low resolution (zoomed out) just south at Somerset Terrace and West Florissant Avenue. It looked liked like it was built in the last 5 or 10 years judging from the brightness of the concrete. That store had the potential to bring in money, tax revenue, from people outside the community. Democrat voters burnt it down.

    http://www.quiktrip.com/Locations

    • Saura

      Actually, it’s QuikTrip. And stores #1-3 are in Oklahoma, and we don’t have a #4. If you’re trying to figure out which store was burned to the ground by “customers”, it was 616.

      • Pete

        I used the numbering system at QuikTrip’s corporate web site. I provided the link so people could look for themselves.

        I realize that that might not be the actual number system. Store number one is most likely to be the original store. I don’t think that would have been in Ferguson or some news stories would have mention that Quiktrip got start there.

        I should have know better in my spelling of QuikTrip. Thank you for the correction.

        I wanted people to used google maps and look at the location. they will remember longer that way. i also wanted them to think about the lost tax revenues & jobs.

        The QT is not far from Sams Wholesale club and the local community college. It was convenient for people to use. It provided a service. I know I used them.

  • kasandra

    Don’t give Holder any ideas.

  • JessieS

    This is one of the worst cases of self-destruction I have ever heard of in my lifetime. Talk about ignorance gone to seed …

    • pupsncats

      You must not have been alive in 1967 when blacks in Detroit burnt down black owned businesses and homes and the National Guard was called in and stationed at every street corner for some time after the rioting ended and the fires put out. I worked in Detroit then and it was like living in a third world country.

      • JessieS

        Please, note: I said it is *one* of the worst cases of self-destruction I have ever heard of in my lifetime.

      • JessieS

        I know that must have been frightening and disheartening and shocking.

  • tagalog

    Don’t forget the AFDC and the Medicaid.
    As for the Quik Stop not reopening, like Stokely Carmichael or Malcolm X or somebody once said, “the chickens are coming home to roost.” Enjoy, all those who in Ferguson who backed the rioters.

  • cheri

    On August 23, unarmed Joseph Jennings, 18 years old, was shot 16 times in Ottowa, Kansas by police officers. He was suicidal and all the pertinent details are not known. (Suicide by cop?) Regardless, where is the protest and outrage? Where is the media coverage? Where is the DOJ presence? The young man was a white male. Is this “white privilege?”

    • Larry Larkin

      If it doesn’t fit The Narrative it gets ignored. The Narrative is All.

  • uleaveuswithnoalternative

    As Daniel said, businesses that choose to open or remain in Ferguson may, “run scams on the side, e.g. smuggled cigarettes, lottery cheats, EBT for cash.”
    The Ferguson Market and Liquor Store was indicted in 2008 for money laundering and financing Palestinian terrorist “entities” after an FBI Terrorism Task Force investigation.
    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/74073/ferguson-market-brown-robbed-laundered-money-to-palestinian-terrorists/#more-74073

  • TedCrunch

    Now they’ll have to travel several miles to obtain (not buy) their Molotov cocktail fuel.

  • pupsncats

    Most of the convenience stores in the country make most of their money selling lottery tickets, liquor, cigarettes and junk food Daniel. In fact, all they sell is junk food at a high price.

  • bigjulie

    Don’t worry! The stupid Democrat Governor will simply use Missouri taxpayer’s money to truck in free “humanitarian” food aid resulting in a “Convenience Store” where everything is FREE!

  • Hyrdr

    Oddly uninterested?? Hardly odd. I suppose the title chosen was to capture a audience.