{"id":89796,"date":"2025-07-22T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89796"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:26:51","slug":"more-vibrancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89796","title":{"rendered":"More Vibrancy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not sure if I&#8217;m getting tired of Trump winning &#8211; but I&#8217;ve had enough of Saint Paul losing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cub on University Avenue is closing after several decades:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The store at 1440 University Ave. W. will close on Aug. 2, and 96 store employees will be laid off starting on Sept. 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EhyCI8C4Ug\">https:\/\/t.co\/EhyCI8C4Ug<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KSTP (@KSTP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP\/status\/1947338291876868531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>The store at 1440 University Ave. W. will close its doors to the public on Aug. 2, and 96 store employees will be laid off starting on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a Cub spokesperson said the closure is part of an effort to \u201coptimize our footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the impact our stores have for the people who work in, shop in, and live in our communities. Like any food retailer, we\u2019re constantly working to optimize our footprint, which includes investing in stores \u2013 like our newly remodeled Cub in Burnsville, MN \u2013 as well as closing stores where necessary so we can operate as efficiently and effectively as possible,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Optimize our footprint&#8221; is apparently how corporations say &#8220;We&#8217;re tired of the shoplifting, vagrancy, panhandling, the lack of prosecution of anything that happens, and the fact that so many people who\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>shop at Cubs will go to Roseville because of less hassles and a lower sales tax&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I live less than a mile from that Cub &#8211; and I haven&#8217;t gone there in literally decades.\u00a0 \u00a0Back then, there were 3-4 big box groceries in that half=mile; Rainbow, Target and Walmart (although it wasn&#8217;t one of the Wallmarts with the big grocery sections, it was still a low-price option); Cub was never as cheap as Rainbow or as clean as Target.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Rainbow and Walmart disappeared?\u00a0 It was easier and cheaper to go to Roseville.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if I&#8217;m getting tired of Trump winning &#8211; but I&#8217;ve had enough of Saint Paul losing.\u00a0\u00a0 The Cub on University Avenue is closing after several decades: The store at 1440 University Ave. W. will close its doors to the public on Aug. 2, and 96 store employees will be laid off starting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89796\/revisions\/89802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}