Nike Closes Doors On Key Store, Joining Exodus From Soft-On Crime Cities
Obama liked to say that elections have consequences, right?
You might almost say that Nike is a victim of its own success. They were among the leading voices in various social justice movements over the years.
They fully embraced the Kaepernick take-a-knee fiasco, giving him a big-dollar endorsement deal. They followed that up with shoveling millions of dollars into the grift known as BLM, scolding anyone who wouldn’t echo their America-hating rhetoric.
Even something as benign as a Betsy-Ross themed shoe got pulled by Nike because Colin K said that had something to do with America’s dark history of slavery. Which is very ironic, considering where the shoes are being made and the links China has with slave labor and concentration camps even now, and this story specifically names NIKE as one of the companies benefiting from slave labor in China.
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The agenda they pushed — including the BLM grift, the defunding the police movement, and hard-left policies with explicitly racist agendas — was turned into policy in many American cities. That included a soft-on-crime attitude to both looting and shoplifting.
The refusal to prosecute shoplifters has had a massive impact on retailers… including the big names.
Now, those chickens are coming home to roost, and Nike is being forced to shut its own doors — because of policies it helped make possible.
Nike has shuttered a community store in its home city of Portland after it was plagued by shoplifting in the crime-ridden woke city.
The sportwear giant confirmed it will not reopen the store in Northeast Portland in a statement issued earlier this month, almost a year after a ‘temporary’ closure was announced.
Nike, famed for its social justice activism, wrote to Portland’s outgoing Mayor Ted Wheeler in January warning him that the shop had shuttered due to ‘deteriorating public safety conditions and rapid escalation in retail theft.’
The firm offered to pay off-duty Portland cops to provide security – but Rose City officials were unable to spare enough staff from its notoriously short-staffed police department to help.
Nike’s deadline of May 1 was missed – and the store was doomed, KGW reported. Wheeler – who was been slammed for his failure to tackle crime in the city – said he was ‘very disappointed’ by the store’s closure. — DailyMail
It became one of those eff-around-and-find-out situations.
Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
Nike is reaping what they have sowed. Their marketing for their overpriced shoes is divided between an entitled athlete class who often get the shoes for free and an imitative, thuggish urban culture who will frequently steal the product to get theirs “free” too.