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PostJun 02, 2020#2401

Wish I didn't have to work all day or I'd be down there helping clean up.  It was hard to watch last night.

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PostJun 02, 2020#2402

PlatinumBlues wrote:
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Culinaria looted...


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Word is that Schnucks has just about had enough with the problems at Culinaria - police incidents, theft, people acting out, losing money. Another loot or two and they just might throw in the towel.

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PostJun 02, 2020#2403

leeharveyawesome wrote:
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Culinaria looted...


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Word is that Schnucks has just about had enough with the problems at Culinaria - police incidents, theft, people acting out, losing money. Another loot or two and they just might throw in the towel.
Doesn’t explain why they just expanded their hours and are planning a major renovation and updates to booze and Pharmacy areas

Also Schnucks/Culinaria didn’t get looted. They don’t even have a broken window, although someone did appear to throw or crash a scooter and cracked a glass at one of their none functional doors.

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PostJun 02, 2020#2404

PlatinumBlues wrote:
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Not sure what your source was or your motivation in posting this but this is a lie. As DB said, no one stepped foot in Culinaria. There's one fractured window. 

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PostJun 02, 2020#2405

aprice wrote:
PlatinumBlues wrote:
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Not sure what your source was or your motivation in posting this but this is a lie. As DB said, no one stepped foot in Culinaria. There's one fractured window. 


The “source”

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PostJun 02, 2020#2406

It’s a Class War Now Too
The CWE and and other wealth centers are next
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/01 ... r-now-too/

The economics of America’s civil unrest
High consumption and low savings helped set the stage for the explosion of violence across America
https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/the-econo ... il-unrest/

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PostJun 02, 2020#2407

I wouldn’t get on here to lie it definitely got looted and could have been worse pharmacy seemed to be hit the hardest lots of prescriptions taken


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PostJun 02, 2020#2408

How did the looters get inside? There is no broken glass other than this. I was inside this morning at 9:00 and nothing seemed out of place.
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PostJun 02, 2020#2409

They eventually got the door to open
  


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PostJun 02, 2020#2410

PlatinumBlues wrote:
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Is that looting or spill in the chips aisle.

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PostJun 02, 2020#2411

There’s actually broken glass bottles and such beer all over the floor
from what I heard it wasn’t a lot of people but enough to do damage they stole quite a bit of beer and like mentioned prescriptions from the pharmacy. I’m surprised they didn’t go haywire crazy and ransack/burn the place.


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PostJun 02, 2020#2412

spill in the chips aisle? really?

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PostJun 02, 2020#2413

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spill in the chips aisle? really?
its not on the list of businesses that SLMPD put out as getting looted last night 

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PostJun 02, 2020#2414

^ i'm just giving you a hard time. maybe it happened or was reported after the list was compiled. it was clearly looted at some point, though.

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PostJun 02, 2020#2415

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^ i'm just giving you a hard time. maybe it happened or was reported after the list was compiled. it was clearly looted at some point, though.
I'd think maybe the list is of biz that got looted as part of the 11pm to 1am mayhem and Culineria got knocked by a homeless guy who shot his shot with everyone focused else where....give him credit, very tidy job and went for the good stuff- booze or drugs. 

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PostJun 02, 2020#2416

A spokesman for Schnucks said its store at 3431 Union Blvd. in north St. Louis was open again after being broken into late Monday or early Tuesday. Its downtown Culinaria store on Ninth Street was also burglarized but back open on Tuesday.
https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... the-latest

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PostJun 02, 2020#2417

^I doubt they actually got the good stuff. That stuff is kept in locked cabinets way the heck out of sight. They might have accidentally taken some expensive cancer drugs, or AIDS drugs, maybe, but probably nothing "fun."

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PostJun 03, 2020#2418

Here's what happened at Culinaria. A few people got in probably about a dozen. The smashed door eventually opened up allowing entry, the emergency exit door. The pharmacy was wiped out of most standing prescriptions and the cash register and other random medications, nothing that was under lock and key. Liquor near the checkout was mostly gone and any displays with liquor and chips and snacks. It's likely the looters were not familiar with the store because they did not go upstairs where they keep 99% of the liquor. Or they simply didn't have enough time.

Neighbors who live around the store came down and banded together to stop it including a few with guns. Police showed up and it was quickly squashed and the looters ran away. Employees went in early around 5AM and cleaned it up and it was in fairly good shape by 9AM opening.

The 7-11 that burned down obviously doesn't have the same type of neighbors.

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PostJun 03, 2020#2419

Armed neighbors (probably angry and frightened) confronting rampaging looters (many of whom are also undoubtedly armed) is really not a good idea. Glad it didn't escalate. 

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PostJun 03, 2020#2420

leeharveyawesome wrote:
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The 7-11 that burned down obviously doesn't have the same type of neighbors.


This is incredibly stupid.

The 7-Eleven was overrun instantaneously and also at the beginning of the vandalism. Culinaria would have also been looted, neighbors be damned, if it happened that quickly.

It's a convenience store, and a sh*tty one at that. A grocery store is a necessity.

There's nothing necessary at 7-Eleven unless you run out of food on Christmas day or something

Neighbors have been trying to get rid of that dump for years in the first place. It's a magnet for lowlifes.

Maybe now I can pass by there without the sight of someone urinating.

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PostJun 03, 2020#2421

eee123 wrote:
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leeharveyawesome wrote:
Jun 03, 2020
The 7-11 that burned down obviously doesn't have the same type of neighbors.

This is incredibly stupid.

The 7-Eleven was overrun instantaneously and also at the beginning of the vandalism. Culinaria would have also been looted, neighbors be damned, if it happened that quickly.

It's a convenience store, and a sh*tty one at that. A grocery store is a necessity.

There's nothing necessary at 7-Eleven unless you run out of food on Christmas day or something

Neighbors have been trying to get rid of that dump for years in the first place. It's a magnet for lowlifes.

Maybe now I can pass by there without the sight of someone urinating.
Agreed. I hope it's gone for good. Many people live right around there though. They will simply have to walk/bike/drive a little further to get what they need.

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PostJun 03, 2020#2422

STL has the crappiest 7/11s. Why can't we have nice things like in Milwuakee?

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PostJun 03, 2020#2423

Yeah, I don't understand how Dallas, with a similar downtown population, has more than half a dozen nice, clean 7-Elevens that are open 24/7 every 3 blocks or so.

All of our downtown C-stores are much dumpier with worse food and closed at 8 or 9pm (other than Shell, which you'd have to be crazy to visit at night).


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PostJun 03, 2020#2424

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote:
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STL has the crappiest 7/11s. Why can't we have nice things like in Milwuakee?
Have a nice 7-11 10 minutes from my house.  Staple of the neighborhood and unincorporated area around us.   Everyone knows the cashiers who have been there since we moved to Cali
I swear 7-11s are truly reflection of the neighborhood instead of the other way around is two cent experience in my business travels.   Some do standout but few and believe it is owner having a lot of pride.   Very different from McDonalds which is a good go to wifi spot and most of the time clean, friendly staff even though could be dysfunction  and functioning clean bathrooms no matter the neighborhood.  I assume it has a lot to do with most 7-11 being franchise owned and the owners living from month to month sales driving by a lot of low margin crap and some high margin lotto tickets, cigs & booze.

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PostJun 03, 2020#2425

^^ Agree about the overall C-store situation downtown, but 7-Eleven is headquartered in Dallas.  So that could be the reason Dallas gets some special treatment.  I'd also imagine Downtown Dallas has quite a bit more activity than downtown St. Louis, regardless of the residential populations.

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