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March 28, 2023 – She’s seen Oregon’s largest city go from a kooky progressive place with great restaurants and reliable public transportation to a ‘post-apocalyptic’ hellscape where despite a high tax rate, city services always fall short.
‘Our Portland neighborhoods suffer from shootings, toxic waste, profoundly ill drug addicts, fires, a severe lack of police protection and response, virtually no access to drug treatment by those who seek it, and the closure of businesses that can no longer survive rampant shoplifting,’ she said.
Earlier this month, Walmart announced that they were pulling up stakes and moving out of Portland.
‘We have nearly 5,000 stores across the U.S. and unfortunately some do not meet our financial expectations,’ Walmart said in its announcement.
‘While our underlying business is strong, these specific stores haven’t performed as well as we hoped.’
Some believe that the move was political, a way for the conservative Walton family to stick it to a liberal city that has fallen on hard times.
