Whole Foods closing Englewood store: 'It's a devastating blow'
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2022
- Whole Foods is closing its store in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood just six years after its opening was celebrated on W. 63rd Street. READ MORE: abc7.ws/3LxznOA
The store has a responsibility to supply food, economically.
The community has a responsibility to behave in the store and not steal from it.
Sounds like the community did not meet its obligations.
@Hollywood ...and your grandma. neighbors and yourself will shop/steal in more distant stores.
"The store has a responsibility to supply food, economically". 😆
@Hollywood But only one side lost and only one side cares.
Sounds like the store told them to get a vaccine and now doesn't want to reap consequences
Sorry but there is no responsibility for the store to do anything. This is America and our economy is based on capitalism. We hope the company has good values, ethics and purpose but that’s when customers get to choose where they spend their money.
"We were lied to."
"The company said we could shoplift as much as we want."
"They chose profit over serving the shoplifting community and that makes them disgusting!"
Exactly right!!
Lol, I love it. You gave me a good laugh.
Haha Haha
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Instead of saying closing the store is like a slap in the face, they should say shoplifting is like a slap in the face.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to put a above average pricey grocery store in one of the most dangerous and proverty stricken area's in Chicago should be removed from being able to pick store locations.
It's dangerous every dam where , it's a food desert and they never been robbed!(u can't run from crime u will have to stop it
@@TwoPrettyRedDimes that still don't change the fact that the people in the neighborhood are mostly poor and can't afford to shop there regardless do y'all even read before y'all just start commenting anything, lmao.
@@TwoPrettyRedDimes It isn't dangerous where I live because I got the F out of Chicago.
@@TwoPrettyRedDimes does not make sense
I'll tell you who, white liberal progressive democrats same crazies telling black folks how to live and keeping them dependent on free handouts
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Anyone who thought a whole foods in Englewood of all places, would last is a fool
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i knew it would close because of crime or high prices
it's high prices
Tax breaks expired! All $10M of them.
Food ain't free to grow, store, and ship, and you can't keep robbing businesses and expect them to stay in your area when you think EVERYTHING is for YOURS for the taking!!
Obviously tired of getting robbed.
Companies are in business to make money NOT give FREE stuff to the community!
Yet these same businesses will ask you for charity at check out to give overseas
@@MsEliteForever and they pocket the charity for themselves ... they should give that charity to the local community, the people that need it, and then they may find people stop stealing.
If you look after your people, they will look after you.
@@rick_terscale1111 Lazy MF'rs still steal. Trillions of dollars to fight the "war on poverty", giving some people money does nothing but make them lazy, stupid, and prone to stealing what they don't want to earn.
If the community doesn't want a food desert maybe they should think about paying for what they take. It's not a corporate failure. It's a community failure to appreciate what they had. The location was a bad idea and now it's gone.
Cause and effect.... I worked at a grocery store in the late 70's.. we tried staying open 24/7...it lasted a moths...its just a invitation for thieves...its never the neighborhoods fault....
You made an excellent opinion @Joe knowz
Joe spelling
Wow, the reporter is very biased. Whole Foods is a business that exists to make a profit. It doesn't owe any community anything.
That's all they want and ever say . Nobody is giving us anything cry cry
No one cares, work harder.
they been losing stock because of shop lifting putting them out of business in these areas
Sort of hard to have a business where the products just walk out the door. Just not sustainable.
"Anger " "sense of betrayal" Uhhh Whole Foods doesnt have to stay and be unprofitable, nor does it have to tolerate theft and shrink which I'm sure is a primary reason for closing. It's not a cheap place to shop to begin with. Why don't these news stations ask some tough questions like how many shoplifting arrests have been made and what were the sentences for those found guilty? That Whole Foods was incentivized to open there soley to try to make a rough area look "upscale." There's no way the company said "What a perfect location for our next store" without some coaxing like tax breaks.
Instead of teaching woke and alphabet sexuality, schools and parents should be teaching civility! Lying and cheating will get you nowhere! Honesty, respect, and hard work will make you respected and successful!
That’s the parent’s job, not the school’s.
The schools can barely teach them how to read letters alone a marketable skill.
A corporate failure? Funny, they succeed everywhere else they're located. The store failed because of the demographics of the area
Then explain the DePaul store closing. I never went to that store, but I know there are plenty of people on the south side who can afford whole foods and wanted one that was closer.
Sp explain DePaul and the other locations?? This company received $10M and you uneducated dregs don't understand what happened.
Yes
What crappy reporting. They try framing this as some sort of social disaster. It is really very simple; companies keep profitable locations and close unprofitable locations. Whole Foods occupies a niche that caters to high income shoppers. It was silly to think it could ever work in a low-income neighborhood. Several common taters have suggested that shoplifting is allowed to run rampant in Englewood. I am not personally familiar with that area, but criminals are forcing many retailers out of Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, and other liberal strongholds.
You're absolutely correct. Every one one of these news stories about Wal Marts, pharmacies or grocery stores closing BLAMES the store like that are required to accept massive loss and shoplifting to serve the area. No it's a business and they took a chance and are now rolling out.
It’s Chicago. What do you expect. Even President Obama didn’t move back. 🤣
When a store is overrun with boosters, cattle rustlers, and shop lifters, that are encouraged by no prosecution, stores lose money.
When business lose money they close, it's not calculus it's basic arithmetic.
That's literally not what this situation is about.
Yall come here almost a year later and use what's going on with Walmart right now to make up yall own story about this situation.
The biggest reason they closed is because they were too high for a neighborhood like that.
Maybe because it wasn't safe for employees, or the looting was causing the closures. Obviously the Store was losing money here, but it is a shame...
Since when did facts matter?
Did that lady say the store was never supposed to be profitable? What 🤣
It was a way to get people get to vote on their side makes sense
High price store in a low income area was always going to be risky and the high theft loss can’t have helped.
The local thieves are the only ones to blame for betraying their own neighborhood.
AND POLITICIANS THAT ARE LETTING THEM GO FREE
Pookie and Ray Ray don't eat fruits and vegetables, they eat hot chips and red juice drink from the corner stores. Why would anyone think a whole foods would be sucessful??successful??? come on man.
The “preferred consumers” that patronize the DePaul location apparently like hot chips and red juice more than Pookie and Ray Ray.
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@@neenziname1 it's just a joke
this is obviously not because people in the area don't eat vegetables
corn chips and purple drink
😂😂😂😂😂 U know pooky and Ray Ray .
U know they ain’t gonna 7$ for that organic juice
What, do you expect Whole Foods to operate a charity? Should their workers take a pay cut? Would you work for free?
You made an excellent opinion@Byron Hotchkiss
I just think it was a stupid idea to even open a Whole Foods in englewood
No is not , where are you from?@keiren gaming
Tge workers shouldn't get a pay cut, Bezos should.
What’s the reason for the closing? Does theft and crime have anything to do with it? It’s hard to invest and have a thriving community when so many folks just want to take and steal and rob. That’s why nobody wants to invest in the community let’s face it. All you have to do is look at other ethnic neighborhoods that THRIVE. Little village bridgeview Chinatown etc All of those communities are non white they are middle eastern Chinese and Hispanic. Now ask yourselves why there are no thriving districts like this in Chicago in any black neighborhood? Maybe the problem is with itself and not anybody else? Internal struggle is poisoning the prosperity and that’s why nothing flourishes. until we recognize that to be the truth nothing will ever change. The city and politicians will continue to hand out free (taxpayer) money because politicians are GREAT at spending other people’s money in exchange for votes and nobody will ever learn themselves how to become successful and independent. This cycle will repeat and you will always have exactly what you have in these neighborhoods, poverty crime fatherless homes despair hopelessness and mental illness record homicides and generations of welfare dependent career criminals raised by the state where the judge is the mother and prison replaces the father.
Truer words have never been typed.
The fact that the DePaul location is closing voids your loaded comment. People like you are more dangerous then the politicians cause you mixing white supremacist thoughts with lil bits of facts and the average person just listens and likes without doing 30seconds of research in this case just rewatching the clip.
The whole time I'm watching this episode and waiting for, "Why?"
When the media omits the obvious, then I know...
Exactly the media should ask how much did this particular store lose I'm thefts, and have armed security at this store
no
they closed several in white areas
the prices are too high for some
It's always members of the community that can't understand what's going on.Crime control folks! Nobody is going to a place to lose MONEY! they don't OWE the community ANYTHING!
Maybe if the citizens of Englewood would stop stealing from the store, they could have made a profit and stayed. Not to mention the safety of their employees.
It's probably a combination of undesirable customers and poor employees that led to the closing of the store
And don't listen to management cause probably white
Just undesirable customers.
constant robberies/thefts, destruction to merchandise and violence towards employees. thats the reasons why these grocery stores in chicago are closing. leftist news outlets like this are avoiding the facts.. plenty of black Chicagoans on youtube/tiktok are showing what the stores look like on a daily basis inside : destroyed.
2% gross profit in grocery. All the theft makes it not viable
"Food apartheid"....... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣...... Businesses can't make money when shoplifting isn't prosecuted and the tax base around this store can't support it's prices. Open an Aldi.
But there is another video from a similar Chicago neighborhood where an Aldi closed because they were being robbed blind.
Let me put it in a way that they will understand, IF YOU SHOP AND DON’T PAY, THE STORE WILL CLOSE AND GO AWAY!!!
Open your own health food store!
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The prices are to high, in a poor neighborhood
@@robinsss excuses. Money has nothing to do with it. The difference between poor and rich are decisions.
@@ArtTheSinger yes
changing your situation with better decisions will take years
we need food every week
right now
so making better decisions that will impact you years from now will not make the food at Whole foods cheap enough for you to buy this week
@@robinsss excuses again. You’ll always find a reason not to do something huh? Keep waiting for the people that don’t want you to even exist.
People that steal, don't deserve nice things... maybe not turn a blind eye to theft and have the stores back instead of trying to play a card... Accountability came,, and was ignored
I went there several times and the “fresh produce” wasn’t all that fresh. Englewood Whole Foods was sub-standard compared to other Whole Foods stores in the Chicago area.
Of course it was.
I believe that. I never liked Whole foods.The fruit and veggies, meat tasted nor smelled any better than any other grocery store. But the prices were jacked up
Unfortunately that’s mostly the case for everything on the south side. Even Walgreens & Ulta in Hyde park has close to nothing desirable.
what do you mean it wasn't so fresh?
@@sgrey2350 many southside areas like this on are high crime
stores don't want to open there
FOOD APARTHEID LOOOOOOL 🤣
Food is racist now
I feel bad for the 3 law abiding people in that community.
Where are people gonna steal from now?
Customers forgot to pay before leaving store, a wonderful opportunity for the neighborhood. Not so good for the business bottom line
Not surprised at all wrong store in the wrong neighborhood.
the stores took a chance in these neighborhoods, and the residents robbed them. I just can not figure out why they want to leave
The store have to a least be able to pay the employees... I went to Whole Foods twice.. BEFORE THE INFLATION..they sale some Products that you can find somewhere most cheap Same brand, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BROKE TO EAT HEALTHY!
It shouldn't even be there in the first place. Too much thieves.
Yeah , you made an excellent opinion @C G
Corporate responsibility is to lose money?
Businesses close when they don’t have enough sales.
Profits you mean.
Or too much "shrinkage" ( shoplifting).
@@Mike-vu9xf You have to make sales before you can see profit, so, sales.
@@bigguy7353 True. No sales = no profits.
Or when more walks out than what’s taken in.
I shopped at this store three times. One time I went I was the only customer in the store. I knew then that this store wouldn’t be around for a long time. No business stay in business without customers. There are plenty of people in Englewood that can afford WF however there aren’t enough. The prices are definitely to high for the area. I even asked the employees how was the business and they said ot could be better.
Yeah I am sure that is the reason why they closed, of course it had NOTHING to do with shoplifting.
Shoplifting.
10 million in tax breaks ! Gone just like the store 🙄🙄😤😤
Do you know what a tax break is ?
Personal responsibility that's what the problem is.
Never Surprised Engelwood is always the one to get it.
Yeah , you made an excellent opinion @John Doe
Robbed out of business.its a food desert for a reason.should be mad at the community
Exactly
For decades now. Various entities have tried to invest into these areas with the same results. Why is that? No secret here you know the answer
The nearest Whole Foods to us is over an hour away--and I could care less.
Amazon is getting out of the Whole Food business.
They should because they know nothing about the grocery business. The stores aren’t as desirable as they used to be.
Absolutely no self awareness, group or individual. Not one "we have to be better as a community" comment. Always blame, blame, blame.
There’s only one corporate responsibility. =. $$$$$$
Can people in the area afford Whole Foods? I doubt Amazon was making much money with the store, even with the massive tax breaks. Amazon fired employees in the thousands recently. Stores not making profit are easy to shut down.
Where there is lawlessness, "The rats are in charge of the cheese"
Not one word about rampant shoplifting.
whole foods is expensive tho. why not another grocery store that is cheaper?
Thank you. Yeah, Aldi
Aldi for sure
Simple economics right lol
Probably get robbed just like whole foods did then 5 years close down too.
@@michaelching6486 they closed here because of the prices
Free food outlet with ready to eat bonus.
How can people be so closed minded. Why can’t they see the causes behind the action?
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 can these people do anything except complain? Are there anyone amongst them, as a race, capable of taking over the store? Just, breathtaking!
Nope. That is all they will do
LOL 0:38 What did he say?
Where will they shoplift now?
About time. A pricey store located one of the most dangerous property stricken CRIME infested area ???That was a bad bad BAD idea
Food apartheid?😆😄😃🤣😆 yep, it's always everyone else's fault
Had me laughing too! Ignorance!!
So the reporter never thought to ask management why.
No one is going to tell you the reason but you can probably guess the answer
If they asked tough questions and got an honest answer the news station would be cancelled and labeled.
No accountability in the hood
Whole Foods in my area had a 50% off store wide sale. Its closing. The store is in a money having area for sure. Something is definitely going on.
The fact that the DePaul store is closing is definitely suspicious. That's a high traffic store in a high income area with the benefit of being right next to the train station. Maybe their pricing is catching up to them. Idk.
@@grannyklampit1710 they've increased the prices recently at the suburban stores. I've started shopping elsewhere.
@@LC.1990 that's crazy. They're going to end up bankrupt. I look at their produce and the prices on things like fresh greens are ridiculous.
@@grannyklampit1710 what's funny is in October of last year, they started charging $10 to get your groceries delivered. It used to be a free service if you had Amazon Prime. They claimed it was to prevent having to increase their [already high] prices. So now we see that was of course another money grab.
@@LC.1990 they aren't called whole paycheck for nothing. Even people with money have limits. If they can find it at Aldi, they won't buy it there. Let's see how long it takes before they announce it.
This is how it works. Store buys $100,000 worth of food, and you steal $90,000 we pick up and go home easy as that. Good luck
Whole Foods is expensive. Luckily we have Tops, Wegmans and Price Rite.
It is not a corporate failure, its a cultural failure.
The black lives matters should open up a store to help the black community.
Englewood is also known as Chicago's murder capital, with more homicides being committed there than in any other neighborhood in the city. Almost daily shootings occur in Englewood, with an average of around 70 homicides per year. What else is there to say? No cash-flow positive private business in there right mind, especially considering small margins of the grocer industry in general would stay in this location. Probably too much theft and violence around preventing growth or at least on par with inflationary earnings contractions. I actually commend Whole Foods for the effort though. But until the city gets a grip of the violence and thievery no upscale growth will occur. Capitalist reward systems, while unfair in many cases, don't work like that.
Exactly the media didn't want to ask Whole Foods how much money this particular store had losted and the security cost of having armed security
@@erickn7985 Armed security?!
The other problem is getting help. Kids on drugs and parents not wanting to work and who outside of that community even would want to work in a murder capital of the area.
"Profit" is for old white men anyway so they should leave that area. 😲 Why are we even blaming the company for making a corporate decision. We aren't owners, we aren't paying their bills, we aren't providing benefits to the employees if people are stealing more than the community is actually paying for.
They would need to hire guards with guns and frisk people coming in and going out. That doesn't make sense. Crazy how we blame everyone else. But I am not a whole foods buyer either. No matter what neighborhood is it in.🤭
@@johnrussell519 Yup. It's called the jungle by the locals for a reason.
@@bigguy7353 I can only begin to imagine.
Catch and release thing not working out to good for you huh
Englewood residents rather have food & liquor stores owned by Arabs foreign people that sale low quality food products
This just in: Actions and behaviors have consequences. Be better people!
Why did they close the stores?
Thanks Lori Lightfoot for making a deal with Whole Foods to keep them open like Trump would have done. You Know I'm Right.
i don't see any evidence that he would have done this
@@robinsss It's pretty simple. The idiot Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, and domestic fracking and drilling. He also orchestrated the hold ups at our ports of entry. These factors combined raised shipping costs over 300%, and that cost is then transferred to the consumer, as a business is in business to make money, not lose it. Trump didn't let any of that happen on his watch.
@@robinsss Another butt hurt democrap who blames everything on Trump. They still think about him night and day. He did good things with the economy setting records on Wall Street one after another. He was 10 times a better president than the current failure.
Like Trump would have done? Do you have a crystal ball or are you still upset at him so you take every opportunity to criticize him? Of course, he did a lot of good things. He was great for the economy (unlike the current failure), saved businesses by deregulation, brought several companies back to the US, and then there is the whole ISIS, military, police, hiring minorities, the Pipeline, the black college fund, low unemployment, incentives for companies during the pandemic to manufacture PPE, masks, ventilators (like Ford Motor Co did), and others that were made in China that we couldn't get here in the US at first. I wish we had the economy that we had under him.
Question: If you live in a home infested with mice and cockroaches and the city will not let you clean it out, Do you A) Stay there and live with the infestation. B) Sell and move Your answer will amazingly show your political affiliation to the 97% percentile (we just did this exercise in class).
This is the first I am hearing about the opening of a large location at Chicago & State.
Pookie and Ray Ray don't eat fruits and vegetables......lol...lol. They smoking weed
that's a vegetable
@@robinsss Weed is not a vegetable, it's a plant. Not all plants are vegetables, and vice versa.
Been shoplifted out of the area 🙄
I grew up in Englewood and we did not have any grocery store There.But for the residents my prayers are with You.
good thing blacks are able to subsist on fo'tees and weed.
Yeah, blame Whole Foods - need to reflect on YOUR own Community…. start taking some personal responsibility - it’s not always someone else’s fault.
is the good thing to stay away from bad people. they have free food today but tomorrow has no food to buy for ever.
Ha, they better of putting a liquor store there----I bet that wouldn't be forced to close down.
Guess what lady. Companies do not have an obligation to keep a store open and can close at any time. Learn that fact....
I guess I missed the part of the video where they stated the reason for the closure? I know people in the comments are saying shoplifting, but what's your source for saying that is the official reason? Or are you just guessing?
What else could it possibly be? If they were making money, they wouldn't be leaving. Business is business. It's not personal.
@@danelicker317 1. Shoplifting isn't the only way a business can lose money. 2. I never said nor implied that it was personal.
Yeah, I'm sure they opened the store to mislead people and plan to close from the get go because they enjoy being mean. Didn't cost them anything to open and close the store. Woke thinking isn't thinking at all. Wake up and work at bettering your community.
"we're delivering 11,000 pounds..." What does that mean?
That was the wrong store for that neighborhood
"Grand opening, grand closing."
Chris Rock
Putting a whole foods in Englewood is likeputting a weave shop... in Montana 😅
GEE Chicago, how about actually prosecute shoplifting or any crime, then this wouldn't be happening! DUH
Imagine what Shoplifting, crime will do!
You aren’t there by Gun point, there are other places in America.
This is so heartbreaking these foods are very good for the area for good health and happiness! At the end of the day this is very unfortunate. Hopefully it can improve
@Darrell Dobson create tough policing
crime would drop
stores would open
@Darrell Dobson fair enough brother
“We knew this store wasn’t a store that would gain a lot of profit” 1:38 and she thinks a store that can’t make profit can stay open? I fail to see the logic.
Only thing they deserve is a Dollar General…