Looters emptying out Targets and other large brand name stores are becoming more and more commonplace. In many cases, the looting is capured on film by someone in the store — and the shelves are picked clean. While the desirable items (electronics, shoes, toys, etc) are the first to go, looters generally continue until the police show up or until shelves are completely bare.
For a big store like Target or Walmart, the loss is frustrating, but can be absorbed by the overall revenues for the brand. Smaller, independent business owners are not so fortunate — as the people of Kenosha are finding out. A smaller store that is looted is still picked clean, but usually does not have the resources to rebuild.
According to Breitbart, many stores in the city of Kenosha are closing permanently after a series of looting incidents. One store posted:
“For those that heard[:] We got looted. Everything in the store was taken and the place was destroyed. For a business that was struggling to get back to normal and pushing through these hard times we will not be able to come back from this,” the post reads. “The damage to our building and the cost to replace the exterior damage and to top it off to replace everything stolen is going to be catastrophic.”
Most small businesses across the nation are already suffering — to have the inventory completely wiped out and the physical store damaged means that a smaller brand simply won’t have the resources to recover.
This does more than just harm the store owner — who likely poured years of time and energy into his or her dream. It harms the very communities that the store is designed to serve. This particular Kenosha store was looted from floor to ceiling, with lots of extra damage — to the point that the owner simply could not recover. They posted:
“We estimate our damage to the building to be close to $20,000 having to replace both doors, several windows and fix interior damage caused during this horrific event. We also estimate our loss of operating equipment to be roughly $20,000 our break down comes from : 8 Xbox one S and 8 PS4 pros as all our consoles were stolen. Our game collection for both consoles were roughly about $10000 and we had 8 damaged monitors beyond repair, 2 PC setups completely stolen along with several mouse and keyboard setups. We also lost 2 Nintendo switches and all games associated with the console and 2 Game Pro Controllers. All our televisions were either stolen or completely destroyed. We suffered damage to our display cases, camera systems, mini fridges used to hold beverages and many other smaller things.”
The store has shared their running total of losses on social media to boost awareness but has already indicated they would not accept donations to reopen. The damage was simply too extensive to repair and renew, and some items were not replaceable. The details were shared to show the impact that the looters had on the community and to detail why the store would not be able to resume operations.
This gaming shop is not alone. As “riots” that are thin disguises for looting and mayhem continue to move towards otherwise peaceful and thriving communities, we will likely continue to see more dreams crushed and more businesses folding, simply because the entire inventory was wiped out in a single night of “protesting”.
Here’s TMJ4 News with more coverage.
Every time I see ANOTHER of these horrific scenes as to what our poor citizens are living through, I feel like I’m watching a episode of the Twilight Zone!Our great country is being totally destroyed and my heart aches for all these poor souls having their whole livelihoods and lives gone!! Why can’t these roaming creatures be stopped??? Please remember WHO is behind all this destruction and vote wisely this November……
Trump and all Republicans 2020
jt- you are a fkn IDIOT.
When civil war breaks out, i hope you are the first to take 1 to the head.
Civil was is imminent, you cannot buy a gun and ammo is on backorder for a minimum of 12 weeks. the will not be on the winning end….JT is what is wrong with this country, these are rich white kids being fundedd by Soros and the Dems they come by the bus load with bats, etc. they came to Austin, Texas and we the Texas Marshalls and police never let them get of the bus…
LOCKED & LOADED!!! BRING IT!!!
Definitely: Vote RED!
Remove
Every
Democrat
Go after the RINO’s later!
Linda M. It is time to lock & load to restore order and get rid of the misfits.
I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THIS SMALL BUSINESS! BURN,LOOT,MURDER IS A SORRY EXCUSE FOR HUMAN BEINGS!
Not only are these leftists spoiled brats destroying the livelihood of the business owners but their employees no longer have a place to work. These morons haven’t been properly disciplined and taught there are consequences for their actions. But we must not spank our kids… this is what you get… we asked for this.
They keep doing it because they know they can get away with it! When are the authorities going to fight back and arrest and prosecute them!?
This could of been stopped but the democrats do not care about the working stiffs who put their all into building a business and hiring a few employees. They are too busy trying to install marshal law if they win and to keep their terrorist happy if they lose not to mention the possibility of a race war where they can also get rid of a few thousand or more blacks. I can’t think of another reason they would pit 13% of the population against 87%. This whole mess has been prepared for for years now and if you look at our history with the democrats from just before Obama until now, our schools, media and liberal politicians have pushed racism and hatred not for fixing an issue with racism or they’d be sitting around with community leaders working on solving it but to pit black against white. Who are the people getting angry at? BLM and Antifa representing blacks. Blacks demanding restitution for crimes whites did not commit, blacks crying oppression when they have more going for them than whites, and the all whites are privileged racists. Now we have blacks crying to attack whites and even kill them. Wont be long before whites fight back with equal violence. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE PROMOTING PEOPLE. There is more going on here than just the promotion of hate the police and get rid of them. .
Them blacks you claim are not black, they are ni**ers. Their is a big difference. Blacks have respect and ni**ers dont.antifa and blm are all ni**ers, even the white ones. Its time for war…!!!
These “protesters” are the scum of the earth. And creepy joe “fingers” Biden has the gall to use these poor peoples misfortune for political gain. The dog is trying to say this crap is President Trumps fault. President Trump is trying to STOP this lawlessness. It is the useless demoncraps that have refused to call this wanton destruction for what it is. This is ALL on them.
Kay, I absolutely agree with everything you have said here. I was recently told at my community pool that I should acknowledge my white privilege. BS. I have had enough of all this BLM rhetoric that says I owe them something. And folks, this is the Democratic party now. Vote ALL of them out of office.
Senseless, ridiculous infringements on public liberty and our system of law and justice. But Trump is president now; so why isn’t the executive branch doing more?
The voters must deliver a message in November. We will see what they have to say. The riots in Portland and Seattle are now more than 3 months old. The voters have yet to speak up. I suspect in those two cities we will have to wait till November to find out what they think.
I support President Trump! but it is time to call for whatever act he has ….to stop the left’s killing & burning of these states!
I feel that curfews should be imposed. Anyone out after curfew should be arrested. If they are in jail they can’t be out looting. It’s time for the president to take action.
President Trump has to be asked by the Governors. Now if they attack a Federal Building they can react and that’s what President Trump has done.
shoot the criminals and they will not be back
BINGO…!!! THE TIME HAS COME FOR A PURGE…!!!!!!
If the police/government will not put a stop to this bs then its time for we the people to do their job. Its time to ban together and take to the streets and take out the blm/antifa. The police can’t arrest thousands of Patriots at one time that are defending our country. I actually think they would enjoy the help in taking out the trash…
TRUMP 2020
Sue the city for failing to provide protection.
We as Americans, I don’t care what race you are need to fight like hell to stop this evil that is trying to take over our nation. If our elected officials won’t do it, then all Americans have the right by our constitution to do it. I also call on our American servicemen and women to stand up and support our constitution that they gave an oath to. As Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death. Wake up America they are trying to steal your nation. Trump 2020.
Just bring in the military and this shit will stop !!!!!!!
Curfew and National Guard. Scan their IDs, take their pix. Put concertina wire around the area and imprison them, easier to control.