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Blue_true

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18. Exactly. My guess is the margins for those owners were low to

Reply to JI7 (Reply #10)

Sun May 31, 2020, 08:25 PM

May 2020

non-existent. When a business is paying thousands a month for rent, the daily register take must be $2,500+ per day for them to have a remote chance of staying in business. Their business being damaged and looted likely wipes them out - that is sad because many of those people put their life savings into the businesses.

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Looting in Philly and Santa Monica on MSNBC in the past hour [View all] Rustyeye77 May 2020 OP

live news feed from santa monica Demovictory9 May 2020 #1

crowd is primarily peaceful Demovictory9 May 2020 #3

Great journalistic courage on the part of channel 7, 5X May 2020 #7

nothing says peaceful like burning cars nt msongs May 2020 #14

only takes one or a few to burn a car.. thousands have been marching. Demovictory9 May 2020 #15

I agree Rustyeye77 May 2020 #16

I was watching it live and said out loud to my empty house - DURHAM D May 2020 #2

Santa Monica is the priciest of real estate. i bet most will come back Demovictory9 May 2020 #5

That makes it tougher for the small businesses becsuse of high rent JI7 May 2020 #10

Exactly. My guess is the margins for those owners were low to Blue_true May 2020 #18

So many think insurance will save the day. EllieBC May 2020 #4

I was watching the footage of people calmly coming and going from a Target in Philly. cwydro May 2020 #6

Almost like Rustyeye77 May 2020 #9

In any low income area, 80% of people respect property rights. Blue_true May 2020 #19

I agree. cwydro May 2020 #20

Yeah. We are fucked in Philly... PCIntern May 2020 #8

You know all these stores and shops Rustyeye77 May 2020 #11

Nothing SouthernCal_Dem May 2020 #12

They just showed what looked like a fight broke out among the protesters themselves doc03 May 2020 #13

'Law and Order' enid602 May 2020 #17