The company that owns the iconic QT convenience store that was torched on the first night of the riots in Ferguson, MO has no plans to re-open the store.
A QuikTrip official told The Gateway Pundit the company has no plans on rebuilding in Ferguson and that the looted store was barely breaking even.
You go, social justice seekers! Drive all the businesses out of your hood. That’ll show those racist cops.
By the way, some cops in Ottawa, Kansas shot an unarmed white kid to death last week. Oddly enough, the citizenry did not respond by burning and looting local businesses.
I grew up in Tulsa – home of QT. QT stores are clean and they hire good people (QT has made several appearances on the Fortune Top 100 employers list).
I noticed over the years that, in Tulsa anyway, QT doesn’t build stores in areas with crime problems – the safety of their employees and property are priorities.
QT says that the Ferguson store wasn’t particularly profitable… that may be true but there’s no way they’d say anything else.
Being on welfare is better than being in the top 1% of natives of any black nation. Here is proof.
http://www.newser.com/story/165405/why-an-african-king-lives-on-public-assistance-in-virginia.html
I’m sure the locals will feel that the addition of yet-another parking lot is an improvement…
Wow. I live in Ottawa, KS. I would never have expected to see it mentioned on here!
Most convenience stores are about one incident away from closing; it’s not an overwhelmingly profitable industry (though, like supermarkets, it is a consistent business).
I wondered if the QT there would reopen/rebuild; my money said it wouldn’t, so I’m not surprised. I am surprised they commented on it so soon; if I were doing their PR, I would just say it was too soon to tell.
Well, they’re right, in a sense. Destroy any vestiges of private property and everyone will be equally poor.
Oh, except the government, that is…
TomKS, the Ottawa shooting has been in the news in KC but nowhere near the Ferguson coverage.
Not having been there, I’ll reserve my judgement, but it looks to me like the cops grossly overreacted.
It’s time that cops returned to revolvers. It’s harder to be trigger happy.
So the Ottawa shooting begs the question-why do poor AA rise up and destroy their communities but whites don’t (whites only seem to riot over sports)?
That said I don’t blame businesses for choosing to not rebuild after having them destroyed. Of course it won’t help that unemployment rate any for businesses to leave.
Conservative logic.
Affordable Care Act- COMPLETE TYRANNY!!! WE NEEDS R GUNZ!
EPA= FASCISM!!!! WE NEEDS R GUNZ TO DEFEND RSELFS!!!
Arresting a redneck who hadn’t paid his taxes for 10 years= OMG WE’RE THE SOVIET UNION NOW. WE NEED TO KILL THE MARXIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Cop kills unarmed 18 year old= No biggie, It’s outrageous that people are angry.
James Edward clearly you are projecting.
Being angry over cops killing unarmed citizens (teenagers or not).
Destroying your community in a riot and stealing and burning the property of innocent business owners isn’t a legitimate way to express that anger. Many of the victims of the looting and property destruction were African Americans trying to earn a living.
RSG “Most convenience stores are about one incident away from closing; it’s not an overwhelmingly profitable industry”
And yet every now and then I encounter complaints about the “unfairly” high prices at such stores, showing that the complainers have never run a business or known anyone who did.
James Edwards.. If a white unarmed teen is killed by a police officers should whites loot and riot?
Now, just how has the rioting and looting improved the plight of black people (excluding Sharpton)?
If the black community of Ferguson is outraged by the white power structure, why does only 12% of the black community vote? Why are white candidates running unopposed?
Unfortunately, the rioting and the looting sets reinforces the negative stereotypes of the black community, much like gay pride parades reinforce negative stereotypes of the gay community. Both groups bring it on themselves.
Can you imagine the blow back if a conservative organization held a public event portraying blacks rioting/looting and showing drag queens/leather sissies (you know the leather queens who open their mouths and purse falls out)?
So the burned out QT “was barely making a profit”. Does everything need to be about the profit motive? As a place for the neighborhood to hang out, gather and the community to linger, wasn’t it worth it to reopen to continue the good work of getting along?
(sarc)
Which is interesting, James Edward, because not only do you support and endorse as leaders of the Obama Party and national news networks dodging millions of dollars in taxes and fines for illegal activity, you have also called for murdering the President of the United States.
If you were a principled and objective individual, James Edward, you would be roundly criticizing your fellow black Americans and Obama voters for cheating on taxes, dodging Federal fines, and calling for the murder of the President.
But frankly, you are not. You are really nothing more than a tribal savage, a primitive throwback with no education and motivated solely by hatred and distrust of people who look different than you do.
This is the core of liberal and Obama Party thought — racist hate and tribal mentality. You exemplify it perfectly. You and your fellow Obama voters are incapable of functioning in a civilized and diverse society because you have been incalculated since your birth with racist hatred, with racist thoughts, with even your insults like “acting white” meant to engender fear and violence toward those who look different than you.
Sad.
Well, if this store and many others do not re-open we all know it is Bush’s fault!
Noted paedophile (by his own standard) James Edward supports arresting people who don’t pay their taxes. Where was he on Turbo Tax Geithner?
The same paedophile seems to have found evidence that hasn’t been released to the press, that or he’s making shit up.
Hmm, given that he’s admitted to be a Paedophile, which is it?
You used the British spelling just to confuse him again, didn’t you Livewire?
heh, spent Tuesday night in a hotel in Ottawa, KS. Didn’t think riding south into tornado warnings was conducive to long life. Should have kept my helmet on as as soon as I checked in walked out to remove some items from my bike it started to hail.
The cops there may have over reacted a bit, but what if the lady was wrong and Surprise, He has a real gun and now we got a few dead officers? Suicide by cop is a long time problem. Why was this obviously highly suicidal kid still out and about to be able to get a bb gun (or real gun, or….) and not in a well padded room until he was safe to himself and others? BTW, holding a bb gun is not being “Unarmed” it is Poorly Armed. There are now firearms with the same calibre too, and though not as powerful (unless you are an anti-gunny, then because they are fast and flat shooting you’d label them High Powered) as a typical police issue arm, a cop (or me, or anyone with a brain) does not want to be shot by them. And those who will argue, let me shoot you with either. I’ll even be nice and hit you where it won’t kill you.
KCRob…revolvers are not a solution (go see Jerry Miculek on that 😉 He is known to run a 10 shot 9mm revolver in pistol competitions) neither is, as Memphis/Shelby County did, going with a 12.5-13 pound DAO trigger pull.
From the sounds it wasn’t a mag emptying fusillade by one officer anyhow. He got to a point where several though he was an eminent danger to others. The lady in the story acts like it was an easy thing to just handle the kid, yet the cops were called and she and her hubby had not yet dealt with the kid?
QT was likely looking for an out if the store was not making enough profit. Closing a store can be pricey, and it seems like it was on the cusp of costing more to close than to operate though not profitably enough and not yet losing money to make it clear a closing was needed. So they got an easy out and a bit of cash in a settlement for the place being burned out. Way to go. Way to make it clear to QT whether or not a store was needed there.
Black folks who wonder why they are not being taken seriously (and for that matter, being openly mocked) really need to look at who they canonize … A strong arm thief and a drug making thug who attack people are not those you should hold up as heroes.