How are the stores in the riot area. I've been reading some of the social media pages of our Seattleite employees and it's a f'n hell right now. Where the f' is kroger in all this? Sure the h-ell not protecting their workers. It's time Kroger develop a contingency plan. Our area seems to riot about every 3-4 years. Each one is getting worse.
What do you want Kroger to do? The only think they can do it close and barricade their doors.... Last I checked, protesters are not fighting other people, just looting.....and trying to take anything of real value. If your store was in a possible riot location, you should have called off and I bet the store was closed (Period).
Oh...looting only causes prices to increase and only be a act of opportunity.
-- Edited by EUID_Unknown on Sunday 31st of May 2020 08:13:37 PM
-- Edited by EUID_Unknown on Sunday 31st of May 2020 08:14:39 PM
What do you want Kroger to do? The only think they can do it close and barricade their doors.... Last I checked, protesters are not fighting other people, just looting.....and trying to take anything of real value. If your store was in a possible riot location, you should have called off and I bet the store was closed (Period).
Oh...looting only causes prices to increase and only be a act of opportunity.
-- Edited by EUID_Unknown on Sunday 31st of May 2020 08:13:37 PM
-- Edited by EUID_Unknown on Sunday 31st of May 2020 08:14:39 PM
They're saying on the news that the looters aren't there to protest. They're not even from the area. They are simply there to steal and cause destruction. There are people who deliberately go from city to city as professional protesters. They don't care what the cause is. They are simply there as opportunists. Next time one of them smashes a window someone should take a bat and smash their skull with it and send them to Hell.
The best thing you can do in a case like that with looters, is absolutely NOT a d@mn thing. You will be unable to do a d@mn thing about it anyway. Things can be replaced. Lives cannot. However if they decide to fight you, then by all means defend yourself as best as you are able. But if they are just damaging and taking property, let them.
Some in Los Angeles have protective boarding, accessible during business hours. Armed security at the door. Less hours, work faster (of course), come in when you are scheduled regardless of curfew, leave when you are done. You feel kind of trapped and can't find out what is happening.
I don't know about the rioters, but here in Michigan, I witnessed something I've rarely ever seen...As I was going home the other day, I saw THOUSANDS of protesters, peaceful protesters marching across our parking lot...They must have walked for miles, but there were large groups of blacks, Asians, Latinos, Arabs, and yes, even many whites holding signs and walking down both sides of the street on the sidewalks...Police were there, but they really just watched for trouble...And not unsurprisingly, considering how things have gone the last few days, there was NO trouble whatsoever...I'm seeing and feeling a lot of disenfranchisement with the youth nowadays...They've lost jobs, they feel that their futures have been put on hold indefinitely (with issues like climate change and now, the COVID pandemic) and they just need a way to vent their frustrations...Add to that another killing of a black man in broad daylight (one of many over the last few years) and you've got the perfect storm for what is happening now...Remember Vietnam, Kent State, Woodstock and The March on Washington? I think things are reminding us of that era again...All I know is that I've never seen a group that large in the suburbs and groups from all around Michigan from Lake Orion to Lathrup Village, Livonia to Lansing, Troy to Detroit, and Rochester to Romulus have been out in full force...or will be in the coming days...This sounds like a real awakening among the people...We'll have to see how this all plays out over the next few days...I don't know about the rest of you, but all I can say is that I've never seen anything like it...Sure, it remains to be seen how long the momentum lasts, but I can say that at least the young people are not apathetic...Anyone that says that young people don't care about their communities, are lazy and don't give a damn didn't see the sight I did yesterday...And It gives me hope for the future of America...
