I see where a Walgreens in Chicago is closing and an Alderman wants to blame corporate.

I read the alderman wants Walgreen's charged with 'corporate abandonment'. That's a new one.

Actually Walgreens should counter charge Chigago with neighborhood abandonment. The store doesn't have the support of the neighborhood it is in. If it did have support it wouldn't be shoplifted, robbed, and vandalized to death. Walgreens is looking out for employee safety and a profit.

It's really that simple. If a store can't make money it folds up. 

Of course the alderman was playing his constituents like a virtuoso and telling them how it wasn't fair.

Fact is the alderman should be visiting his district and telling them why Walgreens was leaving and make an effort to organize the locals to run the forces of evil out of their neighborhood.

All it would take (and this requires some doing) is get a couple neighborhoods to clean themselves up and turn itself into a decent place to live and it would probably become contageous.

It would certainly beat the current hopeeless way some of those neighborhoods live.

 

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