the arrogant of pechtree city racist snobs is showing.

The only real cat in town

That was a very ignorant and lame comment. You should try reading the story before you post your pejorative responses.

And we Peachtree City dwellers can't hide from the fact that we have come off as class conscious elitists. We have assigned worth to people based on their purchasing power. Writers have called those that shop at Goodwill quote "Riffraff." I, as a PTC resident, find this embarrassing, incompatible with the foundation of christian faith we try to project, and, in the case of much of the name-calling, snobbery of the first degree. Many will try to nuance the reasons for their objection to Goodwill, but it comes down to a fear of the less fortunate. Again, young enlisted military families routinely shop at these stores. The comments you hurl at its patrons land squarely on these families. WWJH: Who would Jesus Help, or Who would Jesus Hate?

Kevin "Hack" King

You asked me recently how I could possibly link goodwill and walmart stores with increased crime.

I found copious amounts of information for you with a simple google search.

Google goodwill and crime: there were too many good stories to link all of them for you. I thought before I did this search that I would find shoplifting and drugs as the major crimes associated with this "family" "good charity" store. I was very shocked to find that child molestation was the main crime taking place in no-goodwill stores. They also apparently have alot of employee theft, and some shoplifting.

Now on to my good friends at walley. I only went through the first page of the more than 2,250. references...but here is what surprised me. Apparently a nation wide study has been done comparing walley-drug-mart to Target. When both discount stores were compared in the same community they showed 6 times the number of violent crimes being reported at walley. Gee go figure.

It would be interesting to see if Sheriff Johnson and the kids have done a similar study locally to see if those same findings show up here.

That is why no wants walley or no-good-will in their neighborhoods. Nobody wants to invite crime into their neighborhood.

Hack how could you not see these 2 stores for what they do to communities?? How can you not see that they bring more crime??

WWJD? What would Jesus do Hack? That is a good question. Would he sit around and whine about how everyone owes him an easy and free living?? Is that how Jesus lived? I thought he was a carpenter who worked hard. Maybe the Bible is fiction. Instead Jesus sat around drank all day and then pulled the race card everytime he broke the law or wanted something for free?? Would Jesus really cry because everything wasn't handed to him on a silver platter?? Just curious.

ps: Hack you are the first person who referenced poor people as "riffraff". You are also the first person to make reference to "brade shops" What gives?? Why are you racebaiting?? WWJD!

You may have noticed that "riffraff" was in quotes. It was in quotes because I directly quoted a writer in the free speech section. Go check. The same writer also referenced braid shops. I don't need an apology though, as I've made the same foot in mouth mistake. As for the people wanting handouts, you confuse the heck out of me. Are you a free market conservative or a strong arm, strike, boycott, sit in wielder of influence over business markets and decisions? Do people get things for free in Walmart? Is Goodwill a giveaway store? And, as I asked before, do we close gas stations because crime happens there on occaision? This leads us down a slippery slope does it not?

Kevin "Hack" King

Don't expect a coherent, thought out, reasonable answer from Hack.
He disparages people who don't like to see thug-crap crime moving into their neighborhood, and then he puts down people who desire quality of life as "snobs". He's a real piece of work.

You can talk to me. I don't bite...hard. Aren't you the one who referred to us as "shovel noses?" But I put down people? Okay then. Please join this discussion and tell me why you think Goodwill stores who serve people who are in financial need should not come to PTC. You do live in PTC don't you? I wait with baited breath.

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Kevin "Hack" King

I'm disappointed in you, Hack - you haven't been paying attention.

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I miss Texas! People are nicer and a lot less whiney there.

Kroger should have stuck to their guns and done what they wanted with their space.
Besides, have you driven through that shopping center lately? I don’t see how a goodwill store would bring it down any.

And it’s a convenient place to rack up donation slips in order to keep the government from stealing so much of our money.

Go ahead and have that drink - it's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Maximus

I am learning more and more and more to appreciate your form of well thought out arguments. Seeing the steely cranium is a blast of fresh... well.. steel. People don't get me sometimes, because I am a very conservative person personally who feels other people's rights should be respected liberally. I will not boycott a store because of a business decision they are free to make. I think helping people who are in a financial bind is a GOOD thing so that they may one day lift themselves from their situations. I feel sadness and embarrassment that the town I live in, which plays christian, has turned a blind eye to those in need. Enough of my rant though. Back to my friend Sam Hefeweizen. This next one is for my son, Matthew, who pulled down a sweet interception for Starr's Mill tonight!!!!

Kevin "Hack" King

I haven't tried that one yet. I'll have to see if kroger carries it.

Congrats to your son!

Maximus

I run my trap here quite a bit, but i still know what's really important: BEER! Oh, and kids!

cheers!

Kevin "Hack" King

The landlord has a right to refuse potiential people or in this case companies that want to sub-lease a spot.

After all the letters, e-mails, and calls, they realized most people don't want to invite crime into their neighborhoods.

Even though one of their customer service people had assured me that kroger didn't need PTC, apparently someone higher up thought they still needed our buisness.

…but the way I understand it is that Kroger had the right to sublease, therefore it was their space to do with what they wanted. Apparently subleasing to goodwill was within the confines of the lease. The landlord isn’t the one who stopped the move - Kroger and goodwill did after the backlash.

Do you really think that goodwill or wal-mart moving into an area creates crime? They simply go where the demand is. The people who shop there may have already been a bit more predisposed to commit crimes, on average, but the criminals are not created by those stores.

I don’t know what PTC was like 10 years ago, but I know what it’s like now, so does goodwill. That’s why they were planning to open a store here, to fill the demand.

And like I’ve said before, I would encourage everyone to shop at local mom-and-pop stores and always look for the “union made” label, even if it costs more. That way the mom-and-pop owners and the union workers have more money to spend at wal-mart.

Maximus

These people who "like" the idea of a Goodwill store here so much, why do they live here? I'm quite sure they could get much more house for the money around the Southway Center in Jonesboro. Or behind the Goodwill center just East of Newnan. It seems they could help their fellow man SO much more there. Just thinking.....

Yep, Kroger heard PTC loud and clear.

Kroger did do what they wanted to do. After hearing loud and clear from the from the citizens of PTC, they made a business decision that sub letting to Goodwill was not the correct thing to do business wise.