Back in March, Walmart announced that they were closing their last two locations in Portland, Oregon.

Now they are announcing the closure of four stores in Chicago. Just like in Portland, the retailer is claiming that these stores are just no profitable.

In reality, people know that the real problem is crime, most likely massive amounts of shoplifting, which is to blame for the closures.

The Blaze reports:

Walmart to close four Chicago stores

Walmart announced that it will shut down four Chicago locations, noting that while four other locations will remain open, its Chicago stores have been losing money for years.

“The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties, but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community,” Walmart explained in a press release.

The company claims that it has endeavored to remedy the profitability problem, but to no avail.

“Over the years, we have tried many different strategies to improve the business performance of these locations, including building smaller stores, localizing product assortment and offering services beyond traditional retail. We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the city, including $70 million in the last couple years to upgrade our stores and build two new Walmart Health facilities and a Walmart Academy training center,” Walmart wrote. “It was hoped that these investments would help improve our stores’ performance. Unfortunately, these efforts have not materially improved the fundamental business challenges our stores are facing.”

This is ironic, considering that Democrats just announced that they’re going to hold their 2024 convention in the city.

Amazing. Same day it's announced Chicago will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Walmart announces the closure of 4 (four!) Chicago stores.

"[T]hese stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years." pic.twitter.com/jMaJIs7cAl

— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 11, 2023

Walmart said it will close four of its eight stores in Chicago as annual losses have nearly doubled in the past five years to “tens of millions” of dollars per year.

the DNC can rent out one of the empty stores, and also offer discounts on politicians.

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 11, 2023

Democrat policies lead to the crime that causes these stores to close.

And the poor people who Democrats claim to care about are the ones who are hurt the most in the end.

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A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested for holding a violent “fight club” for sixth-grade girls in her classroom.

Angel Footman, 23, is a teacher at Griffin Middle School in Tallahassee and has been charged with four counts of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” for encouraging and promoting fights in her classroom.

Local station WCTV reports that court documents note “a School Resource Deputy was alerted on March 24 that students were being allowed to fight in 23-year-old Angel Footman’ classroom. School administrators were also shown videos purported to show several of the alleged fights taking place between March 22 and March 23.”

“According to the documents, several sixth-grade girls told detectives that they participated in planned fights during school hours, and they allege they were invited back for additional fights,” the report continued.

The girls also said the teacher had rules: “30 seconds, no screaming, no yelling, no phones.”

According to the probable cause affidavit obtained by the station, a detective reviewed videos in which Footman was seen sitting at her desk during the fights and saying things like “no screaming, no nothing” and “stop pulling hair.”

Footman claimed she was not organizing the fights — but did not intervene, call for help, or report any of them to school officials.

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office took the disgraced teacher into custody on Friday. She is scheduled to be arraigned on May 4.

It is unclear if her employment has been terminated by the school.

The Gateway Pundit has reached out to Griffin Middle School officials and will update this story if more information is provided.

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