Oakland merchants say sales slump by half amid Occupy protests

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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-09-11 05:03 PM
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Oakland merchants say sales slump by half amid Occupy protests
   
Oakland business leaders called on the city Tuesday to move forcefully against Occupy Oakland -- and disband the encampment -- citing huge drops in sales for some retailers and fears about the city's reputation.

Mayor Jean Quan conceded that the movement has imperiled jobs. She called on Occupy Oakland to begin a dialogue to resolve the demonstrations peacefully.

Occupy representatives insisted they had no intention of harming merchants in downtown Oakland, saying the small retailers are members of the 99 percent.

But business officials pushed for immediate action. "The encampment needs to go away," said Deborah Boyer, president of the Lake Merritt/Uptown Community Benefit District. "It's become dangerous."

Numerous downtown retailers said the Occupy protests have slashed sales in half, and business leaders warned that Occupy and the city's response has spooked some tenant prospects.

http://www.mercurynews.com/real-estate/ci_19292499?sour...

Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-09-11 05:05 PM
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1. Open you books and prove those allegations. Having a few thousand extra customers should not hurt a business.

Unless they happen to be homeless bums.

FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-09-11 05:15 PM
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3. Pardon me?
   
The merchants are making a stink about the protests? I thought there were quite a few who shuttered up and stood in solidarity?

besides, the first thing i thought of is that we are in economic warfare...and i guess some people are going to have their lives altered drastically...it's collateral damage, baby

sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-09-11 05:18 PM
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5. There were quite a few who joined the strike. This is   Updated at 4:16 PM
   
more BS. Personally I would not go to Oakland because of their brutal, criminal Police Department. Maybe that is why their sales are slumping. That Department has caused Oakland to be viewed by outsiders as a lawless place where the Police attack innocent citizens for no reason whatsoever.

Keep them off the street, and maybe their business will improve.
   

Now it's true but all the fault of the brutal OPD.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I wonder what color the sky is on the world where they live.

[ChuckJ]

Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Nov-09-11 05:05 PM
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1. Open you books and prove those allegations. Having a few thousand extra customers should not hurt a business.

Is this Vincardog mentally challenged or does he/she/it not know the definition of the word customer?

edit to add:
When I say mentally challenged I mean beyond the usual DUmp standard.

[franksolich]

This is a blatant lie:

Personally I would not go to Oakland because of their brutal, criminal Police Department.

The primitive really won't go to Oakland because of the crime run rampant that the Oakland police aren't allowed to handle.  The primitive's more scared of the lawless mobs there, than the police.

I dunno why the primitives think decent and civilized people are so dense we don't see things.

[dandi]

Mayor Jean Quan conceded that the movement has imperiled jobs. She called on Occupy Oakland to begin a dialogue to resolve the demonstrations peacefully.

"Begin a dialogue", hell. How many other people breaking the law do you "begin a dialogue" with? Are we a nation of laws or not? Kick their entitled, unwashed asses out of town. Stop pretending these America-hating bastards are Patrick Henry reincarnated.

[sybilll]

Those business owner ingrates.  We didn't even throw blood and urine on you for not giving us free stuff.  
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/07/socal-street-cart-vendors-hurting-after-occupy-group-splatters-blood-urine/
Seriously, sometimes I think Savage is 100% correct:  Liberalism is a mental disorder. And, are there really businesses that voluntarily shuttered to support OWS?  That just does not pass my smell test.  

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I wonder what color the sky is on the world where they live.

Dunno.

It's covered in a dark, brown tarry residue.

[Karin]

i guess some people are going to have their lives altered drastically...it's collateral damage, baby

Excuse the **** out of me?  Someone throws their lifeblood into their small business and you just want them to shrug off the loss of it all, just for the likes of you?  Oh well, I guess I'm just collateral damage, that's the breaks, because, you know, firstlight and her mob need to get their way.  

Each and every thread that points to dangerous, illegal, and outrageous behavior of the bums (presumably as a warning) is met with the predictable "it's the cops fault!!!"   You think that's really gonna sell on Main Street, DUmmie assholes?  

Sabrina 1 is the worst.  You can post a Youtube of OWSies eating puppies and kittens for dinner, and she would find a way, in 10 paragraphs, to gloss over it, justify it, and elevate it to sainthood status.  

[Celtic Rose]

People avoid Oakland because of the OPD

Yes, as a law abiding citizen, I can you that the Oakland PD is exactly what my parent and I were concerned about when I was taking a class in Oakland and when I decided not to apply to a school there.   

[Wineslob]

i guess some people are going to have their lives altered drastically...it's collateral damage, baby

The only "collateral damage" these "people" need is a baseball bat upside the head.

[FlaGator]

"Begin a dialog" is lib speak for listening to your opponent's desires and agreeing to each and everyone of them without question. Anything else get's you labeled "closed minded", "a bigot" or "a obstructionist"

[Wineslob]

"Begin a dialog" is lib speak for listening to your opponent's desires and agreeing to each and everyone of them without question. Anything else get's you labeled "closed minded", "a bigot" or "a obstructionist"

True, so true.