Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
@ivangtv This CVS is having to hide its toilet paper in washington dc #toiletpaper #cvs #stealing #crime #foryou ♬ Chill Vibes – Tollan Kim
Crime in America is completely out of control. Since looting is legal in Soros-backed blue cities, countless stores and businesses are fleeing. This is also occurring with the most basic stores, such as pharmacies and grocers. Countless stores have begun locking up their inventory, and shoppers must flag down an associate to purchase low-cost items. They do not even do this in third-world countries as the issue here is psychological. Crime and not creative destruction will be the end of brick & mortar stores.
One pharmacy in Washington, DC, has resorted to arranging pictures of products on their shelves. One social media user showed that even the toilet paper is missing from the shelves, replaced with a framed picture of the product. The workers at these locations cannot personally shop for each customer, and people are refraining from in-person shopping in general.
Around 70% of the US population shops online, spending an average of $3,428 per year. This figure will likely rise as it is simply not possible to shop in physical stores amid this intense crime wave. Online shopping in the US has increased by 16.2% since 2020, and global online sales are expected to reach $7 trillion in 2024. This is an international trend as countries like the Philippines (+26%), India (+26%), Indonesia (+23%), Brazil (+22), and Vietnam (+19%) among countless others have seen a spike in e-commerce in the past year alone.
In Asia, the shift toward online shopping is due to convenience. This is the creative destruction Schumpeter promoted, as it is simply faster and more time-efficient for many to shop online. In the US, however, the trend toward online shopping is being fueled by CRIME.
But brick & mortar stores have served a purpose in our society. If I buy a new suit, I want to feel the material and try the clothing on. I do not want to return and reorder items as that eliminates the convenience factor. The troubling thing here is that Americans living in high-crime cities no longer have access to the basic necessities. No one wants to wait 15 minutes for an associate to grab toilet paper from the back of the store. How low have we fell as a society when we cannot trust our fellow man to act humanely? There are countless societies that have say markets with no cashier as each person is trusted to leave behind the proper payment.
We will see a surge of government-run stores that are guarded and managed by the public sector. The globalists will have an easier time turning American cities into 15-minute cities since the city government will already have control over the food supply, and those receiving government aid will be required to shop there.
So while brick & mortar stores are dying, there is a cancerous wave of degeneracy infecting American cities. In recent years, the government led masses to feel entitled and underprivileged. They are the victims despite committing crimes. This view is promoted in universities as well. That us vs them mentality has led to a divide where Americans do not view their fellow Americans as neighbors and it is destroying the most basic aspects of society.
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All in purpose.
1. To decrease morale
2. Decrease product availability
3. Encourage more online shopping which is controlled by only a few Mega corps
Once they do all of the above, brick and mortar will disappear and then you will ONLY be able to shop online. So what?
Well….if you don’t have the acceptable social views/politics, guess who won’t be getting TP? Or food delivery, or medicine delivery, or diapers, or clothes.
Because you won’t be able to drive there with your range-limited EV and you will be unable to pay for a bus or train to get there with your lack of digital currency credits (I’d like to call them ‘wokens’…sorry sir/ma’am/zir, you have insufficient wokens to complete this transaction).
Trust me, absolutely no one cares about all the stolen Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches, and Versace hoodies. That’s what insurance is for.
There is an endgame here folks make no mistake.
Once all the brick and mortars are gone, and the feral gangs of yutes can no longer steal with abandon, they will come to your urban/suburban house en masse and just take your stuff.
Thank God hate will have no home there, perhaps you can smother them with love and acceptance, maybe wave a Trans flag at them as a sign of solidarity? They will not fear your unarmed vegan ass as they are well aware you willfully gave up any chance of defending yourself or your children.
They, on the other hand, will have black market guns with the serial number shaved off they easily purchased on the streets of whatever urban hell-hole they hail from.
You have been warned many, many times yet you refuse to believe.
Those online goods may never make it to your house. Just in the past week a UPS delivery truck was carjacked in broad daylight and a Fedex 58 ft tractor trailer was roadblocked after leaving the distribution center in Memphis, the trailer lock was broken which requires a special tool (this was preplanned and organized) and it was completely looted.
And we haven’t even started hyper-inflation which is the Fed endgame if they start cutting rates again.
Or go to your house. If you live in the wrong neighborhood,
Been there done that more than once at that. The last time it was not only contents but the whole house and property also.
I seen an Amazon truck got hit too. I guess that they didn’t care it was owned by a black women watching while her investment was getting robbed.
Then UN police and/or federal gestapo will be policing and shooting anyone out of line. Many of these illegals will help with UN activities incl killing off useless eaters, then when that job is over they too will be killed off as no longer useful. City and state gov. and majority of churches and local civic org. are condoning all this chaos because they refuse to speak out and grow spines and quit being wussified cowards.
The increase in online shopping also has to do with the increasing age of the population and their physical inabilities
Online shopping for some (us) is because the item is cheaper and free shipping (ebay), also vitamin stores. We don’t use amazon. Many physically able people are too lazy to shop in stores so they buy online from stores or amazon. I see mostly older people out shopping. Certain things you want to see, touch and try on. (Clothes shoes, linens) Same with buying furniture and electronics.
Vote with your feet…………move out of the democrat party controlled shitboxes while you still can .
the simplicity that you make this out to be shows that you 1 do not own a home!
2 do not own any household belongings
3 you dont have any children
4 you dont have a job
5 you either live in your parents basement at 40 and recieve govt assistance or disability and will never own nothing.
so einstien you should have the hundreds of thousands to buy out homes. tens of thousands for the moving costs and securing lodging while a new place is acquired built or what ever plus utilities and all the costs of moving.
then theres that thing you dont have a clue about, a career. thats where some one invests in a education. then invests in seeking out a decent place of employment or builds a business again putting down roots placing children in school an all that.
its easy to talk shit on the internet but not so easy to pull up roots and walk away from a multi genrational home.
Once the physic stores are a gone,
People will be dependant on electric delivery trucks.
And social credit scores. Ya wanna eat? Take the killshots. Call girls boys. House illegals.
No need for you to leave your
cellapartment except for your 10 minute fresh air break, in your 15 minute city. Even have a spare 5 minutes, what to do!?!?The title to the article is missing the first word …….. “Democrat.”
Call them what they are –communists.
More a suicide/death death cult than a commie.
AMZN and FEDEX trucks being highjacked and looted by niggers is the coming thing. Whatcha gonna do when coons come for you.
Bad nogs bad nogs
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?
Gonna go “pew pew”!
over the cliff, Very prescient observation. coming to neighborhoods near all of us. someone needs to repost the old video from several years ago of the Venezuelan sugar truck looted by a scooter mob. It’s our future.
When all the stores are gone… and a people are reduced to ordering online you can bet the selection will suddenly be missing many material goods.
Swarm of 40 Looters Ransacks Memphis Gas Stations
Over three dozen suspects vandalized and shoplifted from two Tennessee gas stations, stealing over $17,000 worth of merchandise and ravaged the inside of the stores, in a slew of Saturday night thefts.
Police said the mob hit up an Exxon station and a Fill-N-Go gas station in Memphis Saturday night.
Video from WREG shows the group wreaking havoc inside the store, and at one point, a thief is seen ripping an illuminated sign from its base at the door…
Data from September shows major violent crime is up 10 percent year to date and major property crimes is up 29 percent in Memphis.
Also….
*Small shops/stores should have a halon system installed. So when a fire breaks out the guy in the booth closes a small window, doors lock to keep people from trying to rush in and save the cat.
After 15 minutes the doors unlock, the booth guy waits till the halon dispersal system clears the store and he’s back in business. Just has to call a restoration biz to clear some debris.
Dothead at door is a half-nigger.
One way to solve this theft issue is to introduce Islamic or Sharia justice. Just have the Saudi’s take over store security. Anyone caught stealing will have their hand(s) chopped off with a sword but not before being beaten regularly with a steel rod while awaiting trial.
Areas of the country have turned into unlivable hell holes, people that stay in these crime ridden cities are those condoning and participating in these crimes and/ or have friends and relatives getting them stolen stuff from these stores. Some cities have no police because they are bankrupt and maybe have afew traffic police. If someone is killed in a criminal act just call the coroner, as no police to investigate anything. When it gets like this all over the country and you can’t shop (look, see, touch some items like clothing) then we will be exactly like third world hell holes countries where kids are starving while adults keep breeding more kids for a hopeless future.
Haven’t been to the US since 2017, but figure this must be part of the plan. One can’t have independent stores and drive a top-down agenda. No, one needs ‘new economy’ stores and shops that toe the line with vaccines, digital currency, and woke hiring policies.
Almost makes you wish for the bad old days of under-the-counter economies, doesn’t it? I predict barter markets will become a big deal, and the gubmint will of course criminalize them as anti-American-values.
I would say that the majority of credit card and payments hacking also traces back to the central bankers. It’s all to drive us into a single provider technocracy.
I’m helping to kill them. First, I’m trying not to do business with anyone trying force covid lockdowns on to me. Second, not interested in paying more for merchandise just to support shoplifters.