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Round 2 of tonight's mpls good news...

The walmart in brooklyn center, that just happened to have riots a couple years ago, is closing. Too dangerous.

Walmart closing in Brooklyn Center, another retail departure in the north Minneapolis area

Walmart's departure is the second major retailer to leave Brooklyn Center after the Target store a few blocks north closed in 2019. 
By Tim Harlow and Nicole Norfleet Star Tribune
March 21, 2023 — 5:05pm
 
 
 
 
 
 

The north metro is losing another major retailer.

On Tuesday, Walmart announced it will close its superstore in the Shingle Creek Crossing shopping center in Brooklyn Center on April 21, a major blow to customers in need of cheap and convenient groceries and other household necessities.

"This place is busy. If you take it out of the community, I don't know what people will do," said 45-year-old Abraham Ugas of Brooklyn Park as he finished shopping for his family Tuesday afternoon.

While there is a Cub Foods a bit down the road from Walmart, full-service food and convenience stores are still hard to find between Olson Hwy. and Brooklyn Center, Ugas said. He pointed out the north Minneapolis Aldi grocery store that shuttered last month.

 

Financial performance among Walmart's nearly 5,000 stores is one of the main factors behind closing certain locations.

Brooklyn Center's pharmacy staff will work with customers to transfer prescriptions to other locations. The company will offer employees the chance to transfer to nearby stores, the retailer said.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our Brooklyn Center location," said Felicia McCranie, communications director for Walmart in the northern and eastern United States.

On Tuesday, signs posted on the sliding front doors of the store were the only warning to shoppers the neighborhood resource would soon close. Employees at the store said they heard earlier that day of the closing.

The store will begin clearance sales to sell as much remaining merchandise as possible. Walmart workers already staffed the meat section Tuesday to help print out discounted price tags for customers.

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Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune
A sign posted on Walmart’s sliding entry doors informed incoming customers of its impending closure.

"This is heartbreaking," said Laquita Jones, 60, of Brooklyn Park.

Jones visits the store every other day to shop not only for herself but for her church and elderly friends. She said Walmart employees who recognized her gave her the bad news as she entered the store Tuesday.

"This is going to be detrimental to me," Jones said.

While there are other stores to shop, Jones said the Brooklyn Center Walmart had the best selection of soul food essentials like different kinds of meat and produce she couldn't find elsewhere.

"I can't believe it," said Roxanne Bernhardt, 58, of Brooklyn Center.

She was at the store with her grandson and her daughter-in-law, who questioned why Walmart would close the store. They shop at the location every other week. They will now have to travel farther to go to Walmarts either in Brooklyn Park or Maple Grove.

"It's kind of sad that they are closing," Bernhardt said. "I don't know what other people will do."

Walmart opened the superstore on the site of the former Brookdale Shopping Center off Hwy. 100 and Bass Lake Road in 2012. When it opened, Walmart management said the nearly 190,000-square-foot store would employ about 300 associates. The store has been the anchor of the retail area that includes more than 30 small shops, restaurants, a fitness center and a dental practice.

City officials, who heard of the closure Tuesday morning, had no immediate response.

Walmart's departure is just the latest major retailer to leave Brooklyn Center. In 2019, Target closed its store a few blocks to the north across from the Brookdale Library. The nearby Sears store closed in 2018.

While Walmart representatives didn't mention public safety concerns as a reason for closing the Brooklyn Center store, the shopping area surrounding the Walmart has been called "a hotspot for crime," Brooklyn Center Police Chief Kellace McDaniel said last month. He made the comment as the city rolled out its first mobile camera trailer and planned to park it in the shopping center's parking lot.

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2 minutes ago, mikeman said:

Round 2 of tonight's mpls good news...

The walmart in brooklyn center, that just happened to have riots a couple years ago, is closing. Too dangerous.

Walmart closing in Brooklyn Center, another retail departure in the north Minneapolis area

Walmart's departure is the second major retailer to leave Brooklyn Center after the Target store a few blocks north closed in 2019. 
By Tim Harlow and Nicole Norfleet Star Tribune
March 21, 2023 — 5:05pm
 
 
 
 
 
 

The north metro is losing another major retailer.

On Tuesday, Walmart announced it will close its superstore in the Shingle Creek Crossing shopping center in Brooklyn Center on April 21, a major blow to customers in need of cheap and convenient groceries and other household necessities.

"This place is busy. If you take it out of the community, I don't know what people will do," said 45-year-old Abraham Ugas of Brooklyn Park as he finished shopping for his family Tuesday afternoon.

While there is a Cub Foods a bit down the road from Walmart, full-service food and convenience stores are still hard to find between Olson Hwy. and Brooklyn Center, Ugas said. He pointed out the north Minneapolis Aldi grocery store that shuttered last month.

 

Financial performance among Walmart's nearly 5,000 stores is one of the main factors behind closing certain locations.

Brooklyn Center's pharmacy staff will work with customers to transfer prescriptions to other locations. The company will offer employees the chance to transfer to nearby stores, the retailer said.

"We are grateful to the customers who have given us the privilege of serving them at our Brooklyn Center location," said Felicia McCranie, communications director for Walmart in the northern and eastern United States.

On Tuesday, signs posted on the sliding front doors of the store were the only warning to shoppers the neighborhood resource would soon close. Employees at the store said they heard earlier that day of the closing.

The store will begin clearance sales to sell as much remaining merchandise as possible. Walmart workers already staffed the meat section Tuesday to help print out discounted price tags for customers.

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Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune
A sign posted on Walmart’s sliding entry doors informed incoming customers of its impending closure.

"This is heartbreaking," said Laquita Jones, 60, of Brooklyn Park.

Jones visits the store every other day to shop not only for herself but for her church and elderly friends. She said Walmart employees who recognized her gave her the bad news as she entered the store Tuesday.

"This is going to be detrimental to me," Jones said.

While there are other stores to shop, Jones said the Brooklyn Center Walmart had the best selection of soul food essentials like different kinds of meat and produce she couldn't find elsewhere.

"I can't believe it," said Roxanne Bernhardt, 58, of Brooklyn Center.

She was at the store with her grandson and her daughter-in-law, who questioned why Walmart would close the store. They shop at the location every other week. They will now have to travel farther to go to Walmarts either in Brooklyn Park or Maple Grove.

"It's kind of sad that they are closing," Bernhardt said. "I don't know what other people will do."

Walmart opened the superstore on the site of the former Brookdale Shopping Center off Hwy. 100 and Bass Lake Road in 2012. When it opened, Walmart management said the nearly 190,000-square-foot store would employ about 300 associates. The store has been the anchor of the retail area that includes more than 30 small shops, restaurants, a fitness center and a dental practice.

City officials, who heard of the closure Tuesday morning, had no immediate response.

Walmart's departure is just the latest major retailer to leave Brooklyn Center. In 2019, Target closed its store a few blocks to the north across from the Brookdale Library. The nearby Sears store closed in 2018.

While Walmart representatives didn't mention public safety concerns as a reason for closing the Brooklyn Center store, the shopping area surrounding the Walmart has been called "a hotspot for crime," Brooklyn Center Police Chief Kellace McDaniel said last month. He made the comment as the city rolled out its first mobile camera trailer and planned to park it in the shopping center's parking lot.

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Here's the part where the negro woman accuses black city council members of racism.

Ex-racial equity director alleges 'toxic' Minneapolis City Hall, accuses Black leaders of racism

Tyeastia Green says City Council President Andrea Jenkins and Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, both of whom are Black, are "antiblack." They disagree. 
By Dave Orrick Star Tribune
March 20, 2023 — 7:55pm
 
 
 
 
 

Minneapolis' recently departed race and inclusion director isn't leaving without a fight.

In a memo sent before she departed last week as director of the Department of Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, Tyeastia Green is alleging a "toxic work environment" at City Hall and accusing several senior Black officials of "antiblack racism," including City Council President Andrea Jenkins and Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw.

City officials responded Monday in a statement that said they are reviewing Green's memo and that "professional staff" will decide whether to investigate further. "The city disagrees with the characterization of the events outlined in the memo," according to the statement.

Vetaw defended her actions, and Jenkins fired back.

"I am not anti-Black, but I am anti-incompetent," Jenkins said.

In her memo dated March 6, Green states that "what I have experienced here is, in fact, antiblack racism and that some of that racism was done at the hands of other Black people in the enterprise."

She continues that having been "in the belly of the beast for nearly a year ... Minneapolis holds, matures, coddles, perpetuates, and massages a racist anti-black work culture."

The effects of the potentially incendiary 14-page memo are hard to predict in a city that has grappled with racial reckoning since the 2020 murder of George Floyd and seen racial tensions permeate its progressive politics. As of Monday, reactions from inside City Hall ranged from silence to caution and skepticism. At least one voice sounded a note of solidarity with Green.

Hanging over some of the responses is the fact that city attorneys regard much of the matter as confidential under personnel rules. At least one council member on Monday said that they believed they weren't legally allowed to speak about the memo at all.

 

Green's memo, addressed to her superiors, adds to the drama surrounding her departure.

Her last day, on March 13, followed weeks of scrutiny surrounding her planning of the city's inaugural Black Expo and the allegedly false statements she made about it. The Feb. 24 event fell far short of Green's hoped-for attendance of 20,000 and left some vendors feeling let down.

A week before the event, the City Council met in emergency session to plug a funding shortfall for the expo. At that meeting and since, Green claimed that the Bush Foundation was prepared to offer $3 million to sponsor the event over three years but had certain conditions — a claim repeatedly denied by the St. Paul-based foundation and city officials, who back the foundation's assertion that the city never actually applied for funding from Bush.

Nearly a month later, the event's precise budget — apparently approaching $500,000 — remains unclear. In a statement Monday, the city notes that the City Council allocated $435,000 on Feb. 17, but add that the total amount budgeted "outside the action taken on Feb. 17, is still being assessed by the city."

The city auditor is planning a three-stage probe into the matter, which would seem to satisfy Green's demands that the city investigate the expo.

Some sentiments in Green's memo echo thoughts expressed by some former city workers of color as well as her predecessor, Joy Marsh, who previously held the title of race and equity director. In May, Marsh penned a public letter alleging that during her yearslong tenure, she and other non-white workers were subjected to "gaslighting, marginalization and tokenism" in an "organization that is built upon policy and practice that centers whiteness."

But Green's memo also includes claims disputed by the city, as well as some contradictions of previous statements she's made.

While Green initially sent the memo to a small number of people, she later forwarded it to the entire City Council. A public relations specialist working with her last week indicated she wanted to speak publicly about her experience and the memo, but later said that Green had decided to decline a Star Tribune request for an interview. Green has granted an interview to at least one other media outlet.

What the memo says

Green's memo, which she describes as a "report," contains a range of specific accusations interspersed with generic descriptions of racially charged workplace problems. It quotes from prominent Black writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.

Green alleges that in planning the expo she was undercut by a lack of marketing, a foot-dragging procurement process and "fake ethics complaints," suggesting that city attorneys were holding her to an ethics policy she was never shown.

In its statement, the city responded that many city staffers worked "tirelessly" to make the expo a success, and that it was "disappointing to see them publicly criticized for the hard work they do on behalf of the city and its residents."

 

 

 

 

A number of Green's complaints relate to personal interactions. For example, regarding Vetaw's "antiblack sentiment against me," she says, "whenever I step into council chambers, she sneers at me."

Green alleges that Vetaw has "made it her mission to spread lies and defame my character with the community" regarding the expo, and says she's preparing a lawsuit against the council member for "defamation of character."

Green offers one false statement that she attributes to Vetaw: that Green owned the city-contracted company that staged the expo. It's unclear when Vetaw might have said that. The Atlanta-based company is owned by someone Green had worked with at her previous job.

In a response, Vetaw said in a statement: "Even though I had numerous concerns about the Expo, I did my part to make the event a success. … At the end of the day, I don't think this event was satisfactory for a variety of reasons. Primarily, we let our small black-owned businesses down. I look forward to seeing the results of the audit. … I will work to ensure that the lessons learned from the audit are put into practice and that we put in the work to regain trust."

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23 minutes ago, PatrickBateman said:

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I bet you think Andrea is the only trans member of the mpls city council? You would be wrong.

George Floyd’s queer neighbours ‘want justice’ after his death, says trailblazing Black trans Minneapolis official

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Phillipe Cunningham, a Black transgender man who sits on Minneapolis city council

Phillipe Cunningham, a Black transgender man who sits on Minneapolis city council (Photo: Flickr user Tony Webster/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Phillipe Cunningham, a Black transgender man who sits on Minneapolis city council, has said that the local LGBT+ community wants justice for George Floyd.

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9 minutes ago, vitalyo said:

Very sad story.

While there is a Cub Foods a bit down the road from Walmart. 

Cub Foods is fvcked now. Walmart was the buffer zone. 

It is nice to see that business's are finally starting to wise up, more and more they're just saying Fuck it, we're out.

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2 minutes ago, mikeman said:

It is nice to see that business's are finally starting to wise up, more and more they're just saying Fuck it, we're out.

I have to say your posts almost always make laugh it's like reading a news from an alternative world where the people and the government have gone completely insane. What do you mean there is only two genders? Lock this guy up! We have to protect our values. Fvck in just 20 years or so US gets turned up side down. I can't imagine on how you guys feel. 

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32 minutes ago, vitalyo said:

I have to say your posts almost always make laugh it's like reading a news from an alternative world where the people and the government have gone completely insane. What do you mean there is only two genders? Lock this guy up! We have to protect our values. Fvck in just 20 years or so US gets turned up side down. I can't imagine on how you guys feel. 

Dont you live here(in the US)?

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2 minutes ago, vitalyo said:

Ottawa Canada since 1992 where the economy way worse then in your home country. 

Where I live, and the US in general, things can change radically within a short distance. You can be in a complete dangerous shithole, but 3-4-5 miles away its just fine(maybe even 1 mile). Minnesota only has like 7% blacks, and most of them live together in a few crappy areas. Thats why I can go to grocery stores, bars, and even casino's and see almost none.

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24 minutes ago, mikeman said:

Where I live, and the US in general, things can change radically within a short distance. You can be in a complete dangerous shithole, but 3-4-5 miles away its just fine(maybe even 1 mile). Minnesota only has like 7% blacks, and most of them live together in a few crappy areas. Thats why I can go to grocery stores, bars, and even casino's and see almost none.

I have been to US many times I know how it is. Driving and by the air. The longest drive/trip I had Ottawa all the way to Miami so I have seen the country. I am only an hour away from the border. 

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About everything. In the last decade housing prices doubled,property tax just got increased by 2.5%  the food prices since covid 19 gone up 30 to 100% percent, sells tax 13%, income tax 15 to 33%. 6 pack of Heineken beer 500ml cans $20.99. Alcohol sells in Ontario controled by the government of Ontario so it doesn't matter which store you go it is all same price, just like in good old USSR 😄. 2 weeks ago government of Ontario increased the tax on booze by 20% accross the board. A pack of cigarettes an average price $20, cheep smokes the lowest price $16.75. Glass of wine $17 to 20.Our economy is dying people can no longer afford to go out. The price hikes and the taxes are way overboard, tons of homeless they are everywhere now, and it is all accross Canada. Back in the 90's you will not even find one. Same like in US the neighborhoods had gone to shit, crime rates are way up. Blacks in Canada are the largest minority 8.5% given that Canada has only has 8 large cities you would think 15%-20.Same situation with the Arabs. From the 90s to the present it is like you have moved to another country. Downtown I used to go out in the 90's early 2000 now is a shithole full of blacks and arab gangs. One of my friends is a cop get this they don't have body cameras they are not allowed to wear a camera because it is violating whatever the fvck rights. Canada is still under British influence. British monarchy is still part of the Canadian political system to this day "shared monarchy". Not exactly an independent country. South of the boarder your home country the largest trade partner on whom Canadian economy rellys the most. So Canada doesn't have much of it's own say. 

Does Canada depend on U.S. economy?
Canada's Economy Depends on the United States. It doesn't border any countries other than the United States. This makes shipments of goods to other markets more expensive.Canada doesn't even have it's own trade Fleet. 
 
We can't even refine our own oil it has to be shipped to US and then brought back to Canada. :laugh That surly cost effective. It's all because we are not allowed to have our own refinery. Lol. There 2 small refinerys but to build the major one no. That will cut into profits of some people who are not going to be happy. We got same changes happening as you do on much larger scale with higher taxes and much weaker and more dependant economy. 
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The local news covered the walmart closing last night, they never once mentioned possible crime and shoplifting as possible reasons for them closing, just said it wasn't meeting financial expectations. Then they interviewed shoppers who said "it's always busy", I'm sure it is, walmart prices are the same all over, so when 1 store is having 10% of the product stolen while another is at 1% that makes all the difference.

Typical of the lying local news to not mention the real reason, if they would mention crime and shoplifting that would be racist.

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10 minutes ago, mikeman said:

The local news covered the walmart closing last night, they never once mentioned possible crime and shoplifting as possible reasons for them closing, just said it wasn't meeting financial expectations. Then they interviewed shoppers who said "it's always busy", I'm sure it is, walmart prices are the same all over, so when 1 store is having 10% of the product stolen while another is at 1% that makes all the difference.

Typical of the lying local news to not mention the real reason, if they would mention crime and shoplifting that would be racist.

Same with the coverage of the Portland WalMart closings.  I know a vendor that services the South Bend store that is closing. He said that they were short $6 Mil in the last inventory, and were considering just selling groceries only.  Most stores have 2x year inventory, so they were shorted $1mil/monthly.  

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39 minutes ago, FairWarning said:

Same with the coverage of the Portland WalMart closings.  I know a vendor that services the South Bend store that is closing. He said that they were short $6 Mil in the last inventory, and were considering just selling groceries only.  Most stores have 2x year inventory, so they were shorted $1mil/monthly.  

Yup, you have normal shoplifting that has no end in sight because the police wont punish thieves, then you have employee theft robbing the store blind at night, etc. far better to just cut your losses and leave the animals to themselves.

What they did up here was very drastic as the store was only 12 years old, just shows how far and fast things are falling apart.

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1 hour ago, mikeman said:

Yup, you have normal shoplifting that has no end in sight because the police wont punish thieves, then you have employee theft robbing the store blind at night, etc. far better to just cut your losses and leave the animals to themselves.

What they did up here was very drastic as the store was only 12 years old, just shows how far and fast things are falling apart.

That’s about the age of this WM also.  It’s 10-15 min tops from ND’s campus.

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