Major companies closing stores in Portland

Cracker Barrel just closed its two remaining stores in Portland, OR and Walmart announced it is closing its only two stores by the end of this month. The reasons they are citing are the Pandemic and crime including uncontrollable shop lifting. Cracker Barrel closed another store in Bend, OR. The thing I don’t understand the politicians in Portland don’t seem to care or do anything about the crime and the disintegration of their city.

North Minneapolis is also loosing stores, no one is quite sure why...

What's a Cracker Barrel? Never heard of them.

It's a racist named-restaurant that serves American food around a systemically racist themed environment. Personally, as a white person I'm offended every time I hear the name Cracker Barrel, or Cracker Jack, or saltine crackers. When will this systemic racism ever end?!!?!?

To bad but thats what the communist ideology gets ya. Its been said before by many but I dont see how an administration could do any worse. Anyone with half a brain knew that Biden was going to be a disaster but this is beyond what anyone thought. The communists that run these blue states are just as bad.

To bad about Cracker Barrel but I dont blame them for pulling out. They allow RVs to camp overnight at most locations so we have been to a few and always found them clean and well run.

Better than having your feelings hurt by mean tweets.

LOL, I hope you're making a joke!

Divide and conquer , BO planted the seed, sniffer harvesting the fruit.

I hope that you understood it as a joke!!!!

Two of the 12 walmart stores in the Portland area are closing. My sister lives there and says that she won't shop at walmart, they never have what you need and the people who shop there are bums. She thinks that's why they are closing.

I think you can say the same thing about Target or any other big chain store like that in cities totally infected with leftists. I'll bet the problem with out of control shoplifting and destruction of property is more in line with reality. I haven't spent a lot of time in Portland, but what I have I'll tell you that it is the most leftist place you can imagine, way worse than anything where most of us live.

Imagine people opening packages and eating what they want out of them, because they feel entitled to take from capitalists. Imagine hundreds of thousands of entitled people who think they deserve what walmart has, without paying for it. Then you have some idea of why walmart is saying enough is enough.

Can't speak for Cracker Barrel in Portland, everywhere I have been to Cracker barrel, the food is really good and you have to wait in line to get in.

I'm starting to feel like I am living out the book "Atlas Shrugged."

Of COURSE! Keep on going with that train. The stuff like the "The Congressional Black Caucus" and the "Congressional Asian Caucus" and the "Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus" or the "Congressional Hispanic Caucus" (from which Hispanic Republicans are barred from membership) are the ones that I enjoying teasing about. IMAGINE if someone tried to start "The Congressional Anglo Caucus"? What a riot!

Soon there won't be a grocery store or pharmacy for miles in these big cities.

Minneapolis is the only city I've been in where I felt like a minority.

I personally don’t feel sorry for any of these Democrat liberal run cities falling apart or the people living in them that voted for the wacko politicians running them.

I really can't believe you guys think this is a bad thing. Perfect opportunity for the Federal government to move in to fill the void and show how socialism/ communism can take care of its people and to put ur tax dollars to work for something good. You guys are living on the dawn of a great history in the making. Shout for joy embrace the evolution of the New World Order or pay the price in the future!

A big bank, based in Portland, has recently taken over the smaller town bank in Idaho , where I used to have my accounts. They have merged with a number of other banks in several states . It was bad timing for them, when the day came to shut down the Idaho bank , taking several days before its customers could log into their new re done accounts.

In their description about themselves, they made no secret of their agendas , just the same as some of the other big banks that have recently gone under and want bailing out, because of those same ideologies . Reading their trigger words , was enough for me. It made me ill reading all the woke agenda stuff right in their website descriptions.

I found the perfect small town bank in MT , and I love it. Should have transferred years ago.

I found out, I wasn't the only one jumping ship . The gal whom I dealt with , as I withdrew my accounts to put in my new bank, bemoaned the fact that a bunch of long time customers were doing the same as I.

She said the girls on the team there, who all know me, were still working there and they will miss me. I told them I will miss them too. I told them it wasn't them at all. But when they are now told to do something, they have to follow the new owner's orders.

I don't know how long banks can hold out and not comply with this flood of American Fascism .

Month or so back, ducked into a grocery store........picked up a couple items and went to self checkout to pay. Quickly realized something was wrong when what I paid for was about $70 more than I bought. Went to service counter to get it back. They told me it was now common for people to come pick stuff up.......take it to self checkout, pretend they are paying, bag it up and walk out the door. Last time I was in that store, there was now a uniformed city cop standing around checkout lines.

Walmart next door has now removed all self checkout lines. I'm told for same reason. Next step would be to hire security.........not sure why.......then close the store.

You can thank St. George for all that.......and more. You reap what you sow.

How is that even possible that a nonpaying group of drug addicted, crazy and lazy thieves that run wild could have a negative impact on society this must be Trumps fault somehow.

They should change their name to graham Cracker Barrel, they are brown so not so racist.

glad your joking , because a cracker barrel was a barrel of hard tack. cracker/biscuit a food of voyages , travels and fed as a portable ration that needed no cooking or refrigeration.

the buissness model is to place stores/restaurants along major travel corridors and be a comforting place to eat while traveling.

Was that Umpqua Bank that took over your local bank?
Umpqua took over my local Columbia Bank last week. I went in the day before the takeover and moved my accounts to Timberland Bank; a local owned bank.

Waggler, yes sir, on all counts.

The news reported the 2 walmart stores were the only 2 in the portland area. I think they maybe only have 12 in the state, not sure though

There are 45 walmarts in Oregon, 12 in the portland area, according to Walmart. Don't believe the news.

I believe the two that are closing are within the city limits. The others are outside the limits. The Cracker Barrels are in the Portland Metro area.

My Dad went thru Portland on the way to Pearl Harbor in 44. He said it was the prettiest city he ever saw. Im sure it's not anymore.

There's one left in Oregon . Medford.

We said the same thing when Minneapolis was burning, we didn't care, found it amusing, etc. Guess what happened, all the people who could afford to leave moved out my way and now land prices are ridiculous, there are a ton more houses, apartments even in small towns, farms sold for houses. It sucks.

So sad to see the best nation on earth end this way

We said the same thing when Minneapolis was burning, we didn't care, found it amusing, etc. Guess what happened, all the people who could afford to leave moved out my way and now land prices are ridiculous, there are a ton more houses, apartments even in small towns, farms sold for houses. It sucks. [/quote]

I wonder what they’d do if a farmer bought the abandoned parts of Minneapolis and began farming it.

Crack Barrel closed because of their gawd awful bland food . They couldn't figure it out

Chinamart ironically closed for the very libtard , woke , big government , defund the police crap
They support .

The freaks that run the city of Portland will in no way put 2 and 2 together .....2+2 =5

The PNW is one of the most beautiful places on Earth !

Too bad the liberal freaks in places like Portland and Seattle have turned these places and surrounding areas into great big Sholes !!!!

So will any of them change their voting habits or do they remain slow learners?

Try walking around Saint Cloud

Not enough pain and suffering yet ..... Yep , slow learners

Just about all liberal controlled large cities are going this way....not going to stop but will get worse/spread.

Thats a fact.
I spent most of my life in Nebraska.
Then Florida.
Now NW Arkansas
There are too many people. Everywhere.
The little settlement we live in is just outside Fayetteville. Where the Univerdity is.
Our little village doesn't have street lights, yet just outside the village is gated communities with million dollar homes.
First California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Colorado, now Montana, Idaho, Texas.
It's a nonstop situation.

Yes, the end gets closer....

St Cloud isn't that bad, just make sure you go to the Walmart on 15, not the ghetto one.

Demonrats willjust blame Trump and MAGA!!! Remember Jessie Smollet syndrome!!!

Don't forget Alaska!

You can't fix Stupid!!! Makes you wonder about some of these voters. I wonder if their family tree is a Telephone Pole!!!

Not unusual in the past or the present for major firms to close stores, depots etc. and move to new sites where their research tells them they will have better sales and profits. Stores have been moving away from the more land locked larger cities with lower incomes, higher crime rates and into the outer suburbs for decades, many times jumping over some of the first and 2nd wave burbs to the outer newer ones. I bet when we look at which areas have had the most closurers over the last 50 years percentage wise the rural areas have not fared any better either.

Bryce

I like it out here in West Texas !! I may never go home !!!! WHY would anyone want to live in a city????? Fewer people. The better life is

How are you going to get your government cheese? if you don't live in the city.