Closed stores because of protests

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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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rwsandiego wrote: June 2nd, 2020, 5:56 pm
storewanderer wrote: June 1st, 2020, 6:10 pm..I am a little confused. They have stores closed temporarily in perfectly quiet and (I thought) safe suburbs of Sacramento, like Folsom. ...
That was my original thought, too. La Mesa, CA is a quiet, leafy suburb of San Diego. A VONS and two bank branches were burned to the ground. Scottsdale Fashion Square is located in a very nice area of Scottsdale, AZ. It was looted Saturday night.
Well Target kept stores open in Rancho Cordova and Citrus Heights (which are basically geographically between Sacramento and Folsom).

Hard to understand what is going on.

It seems like any location is at risk, basically, based on the past few nights.
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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The attacks are highly organized. With the riots going on criminals are using the riots as a cover to systematically loot affluent suburbs. The police indicated that it was 20-30 cars in a convoy, highly organized, targeting a specific city. High end cars with looters would loots stores and then stuff the merchandise into the cars. They would then leave and go back on the freeways heading to the Central Valley. It was like a scene from Tokyo Drift. An entire line of cars speeding down the freeway in a group.

They are targeting stores in the evenings during protests and then looting under this cover.

Some suburban cities are fighting back. Concord set up traps to stop the cars from reaching the mall. A combination of armed police, barriers, spike strips, and booby traps to disable vehicles. It worked and the looters were scared away. They then moved on to other suburbs to loot.

The suburbs need to be armed with tear gas, machine guns, and booby traps. These people need cars to get away, and the best way is to disable those cars and capture the looters. Then they will be interrogated and we will find out who has organized this crime ring. There is one main freeway leading to the Central Valley that the cars must cross. The police should stake out this strategic point and set out the spike strips. Every single car can be disabled at that point. The convoys should be easily tracked by helicopter. They just need to bait a tracking device at one of the stores.

When looters could not breach the pharmacy safes inside of pharmacies, they set those stores on fire. The looters did not realize that pharmacies have installed tracking devices and have fortified their safes. When the looters found that they could not access the drugs that they wanted, they set the stores on fire. Some pharmacies have a tear gas system. In the case of a pharmacy burglary the tear gas system will activate. Some banks already have tear gas systems and tear gas pellets to booby trap robbers.
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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Effective today Tuesday Reno, CA I mean NV has a curfew from 7 PM to 5 AM "until further notice."

Raleys is closing at 7 PM now. Not sure about other stores.

Technically I believe all businesses are obligated to follow this curfew and close at 7 PM. Another nice shot at restaurants struggling to get reopened and trying to operate at 50% capacity and now forcing them to close at 7 PM?

No incidents here the past couple days at least none that were publicized. This makes me suspicious there were incidents but the incidents were not publicized.

Casinos are slated to reopen Thursday one of which was doing a reopening party at 12:01 AM Thursday.
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Restaurants and grocery stores are not abiding by these curfews. There are curfews at 6 PM in Walnut Creek and San Leandro, California which are the worst hit cities. There are 8 PM or earlier curfews in most of the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area. Restaurants are still open and grocery stores are still open. Perhaps they think that they are essential stores. This is not true. They are supposed to board up and close. Most fast food restaurants kept serving food and convenience stores were open. Gas stations kept selling gas, and I saw people walking dogs in the streets and riding bikes.

I know some of these gas stations and convenience stores are run by individuals. They take risks being open. Any looters also take risks trying to loot these stores. Many of those convenience store owners are armed. If you want to stay open, it is up to you. If you want to loot, be ready to suffer to the consequences.
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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Alpha8472 wrote: June 3rd, 2020, 1:47 am Restaurants and grocery stores are not abiding by these curfews. There are curfews at 6 PM in Walnut Creek and San Leandro, California which are the worst hit cities. There are 8 PM or earlier curfews in most of the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area. Restaurants are still open and grocery stores are still open. Perhaps they think that they are essential stores. This is not true. They are supposed to board up and close. Most fast food restaurants kept serving food and convenience stores were open. Gas stations kept selling gas, and I saw people walking dogs in the streets and riding bikes.
Perhaps that is similar to what was posted about those doing this heading to areas where protests were taking place, in that the police would be occupied there and not catch them as easily.
In this case, the stores figuring that staying open and having people in them would cause these groups not to bother them, but rather go to the closed/unoccupied stores figuring they would be less likely to be interrupted by others?
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Walgreens is closing many CA Stores at 3 PM or 5 PM now. Basically any store within about 30 miles of a large city closes early. So for instance Rocklin, CA closes at 5 PM but Auburn, CA does not and is still on a 10 PM schedule.

Curiously they have not modified hours much in Las Vegas except a select few stores close at 5 PM, despite some incidents in Las Vegas. Still numerous 24 hour stores all over Las Vegas.
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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Tonight I tried to visit the Walmart neighborhood market in Beaverton, Ore. Its entrance was "carted" off and waist high barricades up around the seasonal garden items. (seems like if they were worried, placing those in front of the store doors might be better)

The parking lot was so empty that the store was closed for some time already. No employees appeared to be on site.

It is true that Portland is requiring use of "mutual aid agreements" but the Washington County Sherriff's Office is 2 miles-ish north from this store straight up the same road and the Beaverton Police do seem to be responding reasonably to calls for service. No protests are taking place in this city. No vandalism has been going on. I and several other shoppers had to move on and go elsewhere. :?: :?: :?:
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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Were any other nearby stores closed or only that store?

I've been avoiding going out in the evenings so can't comment on what has been happening at night around here lately.
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The criminal rings have been targeting Walmart stores on a nightly basis. They hit many stores several times taking merchandise at night in takeover style robberies. It is too risky to have any overnight people at all. However, tracking devices are in use.

The Walmart that was burned, had been hit several times, and eventually the criminals were so frustrated that they set it on fire. The safes could not be accessed despite multiple attempts.
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Re: Closed stores because of protests

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storewanderer wrote: June 3rd, 2020, 10:35 pm Were any other nearby stores closed or only that store?
This was the only closed retailer around. Up the street Safeway was largely business as usual, and as this county was finally approved for "phase 1" reopening effective this past Monday, most of the shopping center was open too. Across Murray from Safeway there's a Rite Aid and another fully operational shopping center without a large anchor that was fully open as well.

Safeway did have two large produce bins outside in front of the entrance door stocked with melons. I did find it odd these were directly in front of the entrance door but the official exit door to the store had nothing to prevent someone from 'ramming it' if that was the intent of the items.
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