{"id":1916481,"date":"2023-04-19T01:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T05:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rei-to-close-portland-location-amid-highest-number-of-break-ins-and-thefts-in-two-decades\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T05:47:41","slug":"rei-to-close-portland-location-amid-highest-number-of-break-ins-and-thefts-in-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rei-to-close-portland-location-amid-highest-number-of-break-ins-and-thefts-in-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"In the midst of&#8221; Highest Number of Break-Ins and Thefts in Two Decades ,&#8221; REI will close Portland Location."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frei-to-close-portland-location-amid-highest-number-of-break-ins-and-thefts-in-two-decades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916481&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0418\/38e60bc1-0bf6-4f6a-828d-046988fc96a2\/audio.mp3?length=3288141&#038;duration=274\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In Portland, Oregon, a Recreational Equipment, Inc.( REI ) store is closing due to rising crime.<\/p>\n<p>REI informed its business partners via email that their hold in Portland&#8217;s&#8217;s Pearl District would close early the following year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the REI speech,&#8221; Our top priority is always the safety of our staff, customers, and customers.&#8221; &#8221; In our neighborhood and elsewhere, Portland has been dealing with an increase in violence in recent years. Despite measures to increase security, REI Portland experienced its highest number of break-ins and burglaries in 20 years last year.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, according to REI, it has outgrown the Pearl District area and&#8221; as a result, we are not able to offer the level of business and individual experience we strive for here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that&#8221; for these reasons, we are no longer satisfied in our ability to serve you in this distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>REI stated that while it is considering expanding in the Portland region, for the time being it has decided to focus on its current towns in Tualatin, Hillsboro, and Clackamas.<\/p>\n<h2>Retailers Relocating from Portland<\/h2>\n<p>Crime in Portland is a problem for businesses other than REI. Due to concerns about murder, many businesses have already left the city.<\/p>\n<p>Rains PDX declared Portland&#8217;s&#8217;s permanent settlement in November, stating particularly that&#8221; our place is in danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Rains PDX in a notice posted on its store window,&#8221; Small businesses( and large ) cannot sustain doing business, in our city&#8217;s&#8217;s current state.&#8221; &#8221; We have no defense or option against criminal behavior that goes unnoticed.&#8221; Do not be deceived into believing that healthcare providers pay for costs. We have experienced 15 break-ins, and since the third, we have never received any financial compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Following a review of store performance in those areas, Walmart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2023\/02\/23\/2-portland-walmart-stores-close-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> plans to close all of its locations in the Portland area in February. A Walmart spokesman stated at the time that before deciding to close the Portland locations, the efficiency assessment took into account a number of variables, including financial performance, area, population, customer needs, and the proximity of many local stores. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon stated in a December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/06\/walmart-ceo-says-shoplifting-could-lead-to-price-jumps-store-closures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CNBC that&#8221; robbery is an issue&#8221; that could result in premium increases and save closures even though the company did not specifically identify violence in its decision to close the Portland locations.<\/p>\n<h2>Mayor Attempts to Maintain REI<\/h2>\n<p>The practice of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler stated that they are dedicated to maintaining REI&#8217;s&#8217;s operations in Portland and have already collaborated with the business in recent months to tackle rising wholesale theft, vandalism, and other safety concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) store in Portland, Oregon, is closing amid soaring crime in the area. REI sent an emailed statement to members of its business co-operative, informing them that their store location in Portland\u2019s Pearl District would close early next year. \u201cThe safety of our employees, members and customers is always our number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1916482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[17767,5437,7854,9835,12175,18397,3619,24639,3618,8312],"class_list":["post-1916481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-break-ins","tag-close","tag-decades","tag-location","tag-midst","tag-of","tag-portland","tag-rei","tag-riot","tag-thefts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}