A top Home Depot executive told a congressional panel Tuesday that the company is facing increasingly dangerous threats from shoplifting.
Scott Glenn, head of loss prevention at Home Depot, said employees have been threatened with weapons and even been killed in some cases since 2020, when the company saw a &#8220;significant uptick&#8221; in workers coming into &#8220;violent contact with bad actors.&#8221;
“Retailers are not exaggerating the problem,” Glenn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qvU-WKkj2I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence.
Overall, retailers across the country lost $112.1 billion due to theft last year, up from $93.9 billion in 2021 and $90.8 billion in 2020, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/retailers-lost-112-billion-2022-because-unprecedented-levels-theft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to <a href="https://cdn.nrf.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/NRF_National_Retail_Security_Survey_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this year&#8217;s</a> National Retail Security Survey.
&#8220;These individuals are becoming increasingly aggressive, they are dangerous, and often care little about any consequence other than getting out of the store with as much as possible,&#8221; Glenn said. &#8220;I want to be very clear that we&#8217;re not talking about petty shoplifting. We&#8217;re talking about theft for greed, not theft for need.&#8221;
In April, a Home Depot security guard in California was fatally <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/home-depot-guard-blake-mohs-fatally-shot-by-would-be-thief/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> by a woman who was stealing a phone charger and fled in a car driven by her boyfriend with her two-year-old child in the back seat. The victim, Blake Mohs, 26, was a Boy Scout leader and was engaged to marry his fiancée, Kasey.
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Last year, an elderly Home Depot worker also <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/02/son-of-gary-rasor-home-depot-worker-fatally-pushed-by-shoplifter-demands-crackdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> after a serial shoplifter shoved him down onto a concrete floor.
The spike in organized retail crime has also forced Home Depot to lock up valuable products and hire off-duty cops, among other security measures, Glenn said.
&#8220;There&#8217;s the myth that [organized retail crime] rings happen only in big cities. Unfortunately criminals don&#8217;t discriminate,&#8221; Glenn said, saying this type of crime is happening &#8220;everywhere,&#8221; even in suburban areas.
Home Depot has more than 2,000 stores and more than 490,000 employees across the U.S.
Glenn pointed to several issues he said he believes are root causes of the crime spike, including the drug crisis, third-party marketplaces that make it easy for criminals to resell goods, and a lack of resources for law enforcement.
A bill sponsored by one of the House committee members, Representative Dina Titus (D-NV), the “Combating Organized Retail Crime Act,” would launch a federal response across multiple agencies to fight organized retail theft.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/home-depot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Home Depot</a> co-founder Bernie Marcus shredded the younger “woke generation” for laziness and asserted that “office people” are among the least motivated to work.
The businessman commented during an <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/home-depot-co-founder-warns-woke-generation-ignoring-economys-bottom-line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News that companies across the nation are facing difficulties attracting and retaining young people in particular. He attributed the phenomenon to the rise of a socialistic attitude and a prevailing sense of entitlement.
“They don&#8217;t want to work. Nobody wants to work anymore, especially office people. They want to work three days a week. It&#8217;s incredible. How do you have a recession when you have people that don&#8217;t want jobs?&#8221; he said. “They&#8217;re entitled, they&#8217;re given everything. The government, in many cases, if you don&#8217;t work, you get as much money as when you did work.”
An analysis from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found that federal supplemental unemployment benefits, food stamp expansions, child tax credit payments, and other benefits offered in the aftermath of the lockdown-induced recession could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-families-with-no-one-working-can-receive-up-to-six-figures-of-welfare-in-three-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceed</a> $120,000 in multiple states. Even with the expiration of the programs, a more recent <a href="https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Paying-Americans-Not-to-Work.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the conservative think tank found that unemployment insurance and expanded medical subsidies can exceed the national median income in nearly half of states for families with two parents and two children.
Policymakers and corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, discussed the merits of a four-day workweek, even as the labor market suffers from a lack of available workers that is worsening inflation across the economy. Though the speakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-day-workweek-world-economic-forum-weighs-the-merits-of-the-upper-class-working-less" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referenced</a> a number of analyses showing that employees generally prefer virtual or flexible work arrangements, other studies reveal that the costs of such setups are not palpable for employers: 85% of business leaders say the shift to hybrid work “has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive,” according to a <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from Microsoft.
Marcus, the first chief executive of Home Depot and an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nobody-gives-a-damn-home-depot-co-founder-slams-americans-refusing-to-work-thanks-to-socialism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ardent supporter</a> of capitalism, expressed skepticism toward the ability of fellow billionaires who desire to manage the future of the planet. &#8220;I certainly don&#8217;t want to see the woke generation coming up, especially the leaders. I&#8217;m watching Davos, what happened in Davos, and they&#8217;re recommending spending more money on climate control when we don&#8217;t have it,&#8221; he continued &#8220;We&#8217;ve already overspent. And if anything, climate control has caused most of the problems we have today.&#8221;
Republicans have recently argued that efforts from asset management firms to pressure portfolio companies to divest from fossil fuels have exacerbated rising energy prices. Several attorneys general <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-attorneys-general-move-to-block-vanguards-climate-crusade-from-impacting-public-power-grids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed motions</a> two months ago with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission contending that asset manager Vanguard should be barred from acquiring shares in publicly traded utilities out of a concern that the company’s emissions reduction objectives would hike energy prices and decrease grid reliability.
Marcus rebuked companies that grow enraptured with pursuing social goals rather than maximizing profits. &#8220;We need leaders who are basically thinking about the shareholders and their employees, and how well the shareholders are doing and their employees,” he said. “And I think today it&#8217;s all about woke diversity, things that don&#8217;t hit the bottom line.”

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Home Depot Co-Founder Rips 'Entitled' Generation Not Willing To Work

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Bernie Marcus, who along with his business partner Arthur Blank built Home Depot into a giant financial success, slammed Americans who don’t want to work.
Marcus, whom <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/bernard-marcus/?sref=MTy2GeXk">Bloomberg</a> estimates has a net worth of $5.25 billion but has, with his wife, donated over $2 billion to over 500 organizations through their Marcus Foundation, spoke in an <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5680bb94-4fda-4bb5-887a-62ca1b4341fd">interview</a> with Financial Times.
“I’m worried about capitalism,” Marcus stated. “Capitalism is the basis of Home Depot [and] millions of people have earned this success and had success. I’m talking manufacturers, vendors and distributors and people that work for us [who have been] able to enrich themselves by the journey of Home Depot. That’s the success. That’s why capitalism works.”
Marcus continued that thanks to “socialism,” “nobody works. Nobody gives a damn. ‘Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid.’”
Marcus wasn’t worried about any criticism he might elicit about his comments, especially from those he termed “woke.” He declared, “We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it. The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me. I’m 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?”
Marcus reserved much of his harsh criticism for those who have reached great wealth but then sit on their money, “Too timid to jump in, these are people who took great risks in whatever they did, but they’re afraid to take this risk [to get] into the charitable world and help other people. Why, I don’t know,” he said.
Some of the recipients of the Marcuses’ largesse include the construction of the Georgia Aquarium, for which they gave $250 million, millions for an autistic center in Atlanta, and research into autism, cancer, stroke, and veterans’ PTSD.
Marcus, who has supported former President Trump and donated to both Trump and Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, called President Biden “the worst president in the history of this country.” He called Trump’s policies “spot on,” but added, “It’s going to be very interesting in ‘24 because I think that DeSantis will challenge him. And may the better man win.”
After his 90th birthday, hearing that critics were targeting him for supporting Trump, Marcus <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008008667978">fired back</a> on Facebook, “In the next ten years, God willing, I will accomplish more to save this world than my critics will do even if they had forty lifetimes.”

‘Nobody Gives A Damn’: Home Depot Co-Founder Slams Americans Refusing To Work Thanks To Socialism

Home Depot Founder Slams Americans Refusing To Work Thanks To Socialism

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Strive Asset Management revealed a plan Tuesday to spurn risks presented to the shareholders of ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Home Depot by the environmental, social, and governance movement, also known as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
The series of actions, first shared with The Daily Wire, will be executed next year to prevent the companies from “prioritizing ESG over excellence,” according to a press release from Strive, which believes that its “greatest opportunity to influence positive outcomes for shareholders” through resolutions exists at the three firms.
Strive Executive Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy sent a letter to ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods last month suggesting the addition of a “suitable director to your board ahead of preparations for next spring’s proxy voting season.” After a meeting between Ramaswamy and Woods, ExxonMobil <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/news/newsroom/news-releases/2022/1202_exxonmobil-elects-larry-kellner-and-john-harris-to-board-of-directors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> two new board directors.
Exxon enacted a shareholder resolution in January committing the oil company to pursue <a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/news/newsroom/news-releases/2022/0118_exxonmobil-announces-ambition-for-net-zero-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">net zero emissions</a> by the year 2050. Last year, a small ESG activist investment firm controlling 0.02% of shares in ExxonMobil <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activist-investors-are-seizing-companies-to-push-social-justice-measures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won</a> three board seats with the help of asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
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“While climate change is one of many factors that may influence decision-making at Exxon, we are concerned that singularly focusing on this risk factor at the expense of other considerations creates new long-run risks,” Ramaswamy wrote to Woods, “including the very real risk of underinvesting in fossil fuels to match global demand.”
With respect to Chevron, Strive will introduce a proposal that would reverse Scope 3 <a href="https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2021/q4/chevron-sets-net-zero-aspiration-and-new-ghg-intensity-target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emissions reduction benchmarks</a> enacted last year via shareholder resolution. The benchmarks, which were supported by BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, would <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climateleadership/scope-3-inventory-guidance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">require</a> the company to reduce fossil fuel usage among entities in the Chevron value chain.
Strive also co-authored a shareholder resolution for Home Depot that would undo an earlier proposal supported by BlackRock and Capital Group to conduct a “racial equity audit.” Strive contends that all hiring at the home improvement retailer “should be based exclusively on merit, without regard to social considerations which may raise legal liabilities for the company.”
The fund will launch proxy campaigns or additional shareholder resolutions in the spring if the latter two proposals do not “effectuate positive change.”
Strive was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-want-companies-to-stay-out-of-politics-ceo-launches-fund-to-take-on-woke-asset-managers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> earlier this year with the intention of pushing portfolio companies to maximize profits instead of advancing social and political causes favored by executives. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Pershing Square Capital Management Chief Executive Bill Ackman were among the company’s first financial backers.
Critics of the ESG movement say that proponents blend activism with profitability in a manner that harms shareholders through lower returns. Though there are a considerable number of investors who support executives using financial power to achieve certain social objectives, a clear majority of investors would prefer political neutrality and the sole maximization of profits, according to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire released earlier this year.
Ramaswamy, a former biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/entrepreneur-behind-anti-woke-asset-management-fund-celebrates-blackrock-ending-support-for-certain-climate-change-proposals-that-micromanage-its-portfolio-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly criticized</a> BlackRock and other rival asset managers for compelling portfolio companies into adopting left-wing agendas unrelated or antithetical to their bottom lines. The founding of Strive occurred as multiple conservative-leaning states began implementing measures to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-pulling-2-billion-from-blackrock-as-company-pushes-social-engineering-with-taxpayer-dollars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divest</a> from BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

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Retail giants reported mixed <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earnings</a> results this week as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a> and <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/supply-chain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supply chain</a> issues continue to disrupt operations.
Retail and food services sales for the month of July remained virtually unchanged from June, according to a Wednesday report from the <a href="https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf">Census Bureau</a>, reflecting a Consumer Price Index (CPI) that remained flat during the same period. As year-over-year inflation nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-starts-victory-lap-amid-slightly-less-dismal-inflation-reading">remains</a> at 8.5% — continuing to rival four-decade highs — retailers are witnessing disruptions in consumer behavior and adjusting their business practices in response.
Target, for instance, reported a 90% decline in quarterly profits from last year, which occurred amid the company’s decision to mark down unwanted inventory ahead of the holiday season.
“If we hadn’t dealt with our excess inventory head on, we could have avoided some short-term pain on the profit line, but that would have hampered our longer-term potential,” Target CFO Michael Fiddelke told reporters, per <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/17/target-tgt-q2-2022-earnings.html">CNBC</a>. “While our quarterly profit took a meaningful step down, our future path is brighter.”
According to Target CEO Brian Cornell, the company is prioritizing food, household items, and other inventory with a high turnover rate — even canceling $1.5 billion in orders for goods with lower demand.
Meanwhile, home improvement retailer Home Depot reported a 6.5% rise in profits from the second quarter of fiscal year 2021.
&#8220;Our performance reflects continued strength in demand for home improvement projects,” Home Depot CEO Ted Decker said in a <a href="https://ir.homedepot.com/news-releases/2022/08-16-2022-110048363">statement</a>. “Our team has done a fantastic job serving our customers, while continuing to navigate a challenging and dynamic environment.”
Walmart likewise saw sales that exceeded analysts’ expectations, even as inflation eroded profit margins. In an interview with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/16/walmart-ceo-doug-mcmillon-says-even-wealthier-families-are-penny-pinching-.html">CNBC</a> anchor Courtney Reagan, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-ceo-inflation-will-be-with-us-basically-forever-at-some-level">explained</a> that Walmart is growing its consumer base by attracting wealthier families struggling to contend with higher prices at competing retailers.
“It’s a conflicting period in terms of the data. If you look at what’s happening across categories and across income levels, inflation is having an impact particularly for those who don’t have as much money,” McMillon said. “So we see them behaving in different ways. … Higher income families are shopping at Walmart because they’re so price sensitive right now. We shared earlier this morning that families making more than $100,000 in household income have driven a lot of our growth during this last quarter.”
Likewise, McMillon — whose company boasts 1.6 million domestic employees and remains the largest private employer in the United States — said that wage inflation will endure indefinitely.
“We’ve raised our wages, which we’re happy to do … that creates a new level of which pricing has to be adjusted to reflect,” he commented. “So I think there’s some level of inflation that’s going to be with us basically forever. Hopefully we’ll see food inflation in particular improve as we go through next year.”
The earnings reports came as President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act — a $740 billion piece of legislation based primarily upon climate and tax provisions. According to a recent analysis from the <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/book-minimum-tax-analysis/">Tax Foundation</a>, the 15% book minimum tax provision enacted by the law will cost retail companies $3.5 billion.
“The book minimum tax affects industries very differently, some of which may be unintended, reflecting a tax proposal that has not been fully vetted,” the analysis observed.

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A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. National Labor Relations Board&#8217;s case against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/home-depot-responds-after-worksheet-on-white-privilege-and-racism-goes-viral">Home Depot Inc.</a>, concerning Black Lives Matter apparel and messaging should be dismissed.
The NLRB claimed Home Depot violated employees&#8217; rights by restricting BLM messaging on their uniforms.
Administrative law judge Paul Bogas, however, sided with the home improvement retail corporation, stating that there is no &#8220;direct&#8221; relationship between BLM activism and the &#8220;terms and conditions of employment.”
BLM messaging &#8220;originated, and is primarily used, to address the unjustified killings of Black individuals by law enforcement and vigilantes,” Judge Bogas wrote, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-10/home-depot-wins-case-rejecting-right-to-wear-blm-at-work">according</a> to Bloomberg. “To the extent the message is being used for reasons beyond that, it operates as a political umbrella for societal concerns and relates to the workplace only in the sense that workplaces are part of society.”
Bogas added that there was not “an objective, and sufficiently direct, relationship to terms and conditions of employment.&#8221;
The judge&#8217;s ruling &#8220;can be appealed to the labor board members based in Washington, among whom Democrats now hold a majority, and from there into federal court,&#8221; Bloomberg noted.
Months ago, Home Depot <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/home-depot-ripped-for-shaming-employees-over-white-privilege/">released</a> a statement addressing a controversy on the other side of the political spectrum: a hyper-progressive worksheet on “white privilege” and “racism” that went viral online.
The company acknowledged that the worksheet is a “resource” in its Canadian division but noted that it’s “not part of any required programming,” nor was it “created or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department.”
“While we fully support diversity across our company, this material was not created or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department,” Home Depot said in a statement published in March. “This was a resource in our Canadian division and not part of any required programming.”
The literature defined “white privilege” as “[s]ocietal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of colour under the same social, political and economic circumstances.”
Billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who retired as chairman in 2002, angered the Left back in 2019, when he said he’d be donating money to then-President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, triggering a #BoycottHomeDepot hashtag.
“He’s got a businessman’s common sense approach to most things,” Marcus said of Trump. “Now, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don’t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.”
Marcus said that after he dies he will give between 80-90% of his estimated $5.9 billion fortune to various charitable causes, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/home-depot-responds-after-worksheet-on-white-privilege-and-racism-goes-viral">Home Depot Responds After Worksheet On ‘White Privilege’ And ‘Racism’ Goes Viral</a>

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Home Depot <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/home-depot-ripped-for-shaming-employees-over-white-privilege/">released</a> a statement Wednesday addressing controversy about a hyper-progressive worksheet on &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;racism&#8221; that recently went viral online.
The company acknowledged that the worksheet is a &#8220;resource&#8221; in its Canadian division but noted that it&#8217;s &#8220;not part of any required programming,&#8221; nor was it &#8220;created or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department.&#8221;
The literature defined &#8220;white privilege&#8221; as &#8220;[s]ocietal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of colour under the same social, political and economic circumstances.&#8221;
&#8220;Social privilege&#8221; was defined as &#8220;[s]pecial, unearned advantage or entitlement, used to one&#8217;s own benefit or to the detriment of others. These groups can be advantaged based on social class, age, disability, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.&#8221;
The worksheet also has a &#8220;check your privilege&#8221; segment, where the following choices are available: &#8220;white,&#8221; &#8220;male,&#8221; &#8220;class,&#8221; &#8220;christian,&#8221; &#8220;cis-gender,&#8221; &#8220;able-bodied,&#8221; and &#8220;heterosexual.&#8221;
&#8220;Class&#8221; privilege, the worksheet said, should be ascribed to anyone who expected as a kid they would one day go to college. &#8220;If while growing up, college was an expectation of you, not a dream, you have class privilege,&#8221; the worksheet said.
The resource claimed &#8220;racism&#8221; is &#8220;racial prejudice + power,&#8221; defining &#8220;racial prejudice&#8221; as a &#8220;set of discriminatory or derogatory attitudes based on assumptions coming from perceptions about race/skin colour.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of the portions of the worksheet appeared to be copied from a social media campaign against privilege in 2014 at the University of San Francisco,&#8221; The Blaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/home-depot-white-privilege-boycott">noted</a>.
“While we fully support diversity across our company, this material was not created or approved by our corporate diversity, equity and inclusion department,&#8221; Home Depot said in a statement. &#8220;This was a resource in our Canadian division and not part of any required programming.&#8221;
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Back in 2019, billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus angered the Left when he said he&#8217;d be donating money to then-President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign, triggering a #BoycottHomeDepot hashtag.
“He’s got a businessman’s common sense approach to most things,” Marcus said of Trump. “Now, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don’t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.”
Marcus, who retired as chairman of Home Depot in 2002, said that after he dies he will give between 80-90% of his estimated $5.9 billion fortune to various charitable causes, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett">‘Boycott Home Depot’ Trending Over Trump Donation; There’s Just A Few Problems</a>

Home Depot Responds After Worksheet On ‘White Privilege’ And ‘Racism’ Goes Viral

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A Home Depot in Lakewood, California, was the latest business to be victimized by a rash of “flash mob” smash-and-grab robberies currently going on throughout the state.
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department told <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/11/27/group-of-men-steal-tools-from-lakewood-home-depot/">CBS 2 LA</a> that employees reported a group of between 8 and 20 people, between the ages of 15 and 20 years old, entering the Home Depot in the Lakewood Center Mall at around 7:45 p.m. on Friday. The suspects reportedly arrived in 10 cars, put on ski masks, and stole sledgehammers, hand hammers, and crowbars. The group then fled the scene in the cars. One car was described as a red Mercedes with severe damage to the front.
CBS 2 later reported that four suspects had been arrested in possible connection with the robbery. Beverly Hills Police received a call about several vehicles driving with no license plates around 9 p.m. Friday, according to the outlet. Officers responded, pulling over one of the vehicles and arresting the suspects.
“We’re currently working with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to see if there is a link to the Lakewood Home Depot incident or any other crimes that have been committed,” Beverly Hills Police Sergeant Jeff Newman told CBS 2.
The robbery was one of several attacks that took place around the country on Black Friday. A mall in North Carolina was evacuated after three people were shot at around 3:23 p.m. Friday afternoon, The Daily Wire reported. Among the reported victims was a 10-year-old boy with non-life-threatening injuries, and two other victims in unknown condition. Three others were injured during the evacuation, but those injuries were considered non-life-threatening as well, police said. One suspect was taken into custody, while two more are still at large.
A group of about 20-30 people also attacked a Best Buy store in Minneapolis around 8 p.m. Friday night, stealing an unknown amount of merchandise, then fleeing before the police could arrive. No arrests have been made, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robbers-swarm-best-buy-minnesota-black-friday-theft/">CBS News</a>. Another Best Buy in nearby Maplewood was also attacked.
The state of California has been reeling from the rash of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/experts-mocked-after-saying-california-crime-spree-isnt-looting-but-rather-organized-robbery">organized retail crime</a>” in recent weeks, with groups of people breaking into stores, smashing merchandise displays, and grabbing as much merchandise as they can before fleeing the scene. A group of thieves stole more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thieves-hit-california-apple-store-make-off-with-20000-worth-of-loot-in-brazen-daytime-robbery">$20,000</a> from an Apple store in Santa Rosa, about 50 miles from San Francisco. Another mob attacked a Nordstrom luxury outlet in the Los Angeles area, assaulting a security guard with an unknown chemical and making off with at least seven luxury handbags. Last weekend, mobs robbed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mobs-rob-three-san-francisco-area-stores-in-three-days">three different stores</a> in the San Francisco Bay Area in a span of three days.
Former Philadelphia Police Commissioner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-philly-pd-commissioner-california-looting-spree-wont-be-stopped-will-spread-across-the-country">Charles Ramsey</a> told CNN Thursday that he believed the thefts would eventually spread across the country. “This is something now that I really unfortunately think is going to spread,” Ramsey said, as reported by The Daily Wire. “Right now it’s in California, but it will spread, there’s no question about it.”

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A group of black faith leaders in Georgia are targeting Home Depot — which has its headquarters in the state — and calling for a boycott of the company because it refuses to publicly criticize Georgia’s new voting law.
The Home Depot was founded in 1978. In 1979, co-founders Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank, who are both Jewish, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090626125227/http://corporate.homedepot.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDdwNHH0sfE3M3AzMPJ8MAV0sDKADKR2LKmxrD5fHr9vPIz03VL8iNKAcAodaFaQ!!/dl2/d1/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnB3LzZfMEcwQUw5TDQ3RjA2SEIxUEY5MDAwMDAwMDA!/">opened the first two stores</a> in Atlanta, Georgia, where the company’s headquarters are still located. The Home Depot Foundation has donated over $200 million to various causes, including Habitat for Humanity and the City of Hope National Medical Center, and offers the U.S. military community a 10% discount. Since 1993, the &#8220;Team Depot&#8221; program has given grants to veteran-based organizations and has worked with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s Ready Georgia campaign to aid emergency preparedness among Georgia&#8217;s children.
Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who supervises 534 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia, stated, “We don’t believe this is simply a political matter. This is a matter that deals with securing the future of this democracy, and the greatest right in this democracy is the right to vote.” He claimed Home Depot “demonstrated an indifference, a lack of response to the call, not only from clergy, but a call from other groups to speak out in opposition to this legislation.”
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/politics/georgia-home-depot-boycott.html">The New York Times</a>, Jackson insisted The Home Depot take certain actions, including “speaking out against the Georgia voting law, publicly opposing similar bills in other states, offering support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in Congress, and backing litigation against the Georgia law.”
The Rev. Timothy McDonald III echoed, “This is not just a Georgia issue; we’re talking about democracy in America that is under threat. We’ve got to use whatever leverage and power, spiritual fortitude that we have, including our dollars, to help people to understand that this is a national campaign.”
The threat to boycott has prompted blowback online, including from prominent attorney Harmeet Dhillon, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro:
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If I could buy my freakin’ GROCERIES at <a href="https://twitter.com/HomeDepot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HomeDepot</a>, I would. Georgia Faith Leaders to Urge Boycott of Home Depot Over Voting Law <a href="https://t.co/Qzik2ZwNy0">https://t.co/Qzik2ZwNy0</a>
&mdash; Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1384481516651094016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Who else is going to Home Depot today? Tweet pics buying stuff in line! <a href="https://t.co/eb9Phhkemo">https://t.co/eb9Phhkemo</a>
&mdash; Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1384469963851894784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Fine, only shopping at Home Depot from now on <a href="https://t.co/qtpDR6GWxn">https://t.co/qtpDR6GWxn</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1384479628434231302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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So they picked Home Depot, the company founded by Jews, to boycott. Of course, they did.
&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1384483372555243523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Wouldn’t it be great if Home Depot was rewarded for staying out of politics by large crowds and higher sales figures? 
Don’t let bullies acting on bad information win. <a href="https://t.co/F57udSw1Ly">https://t.co/F57udSw1Ly</a>
&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1384510729932451847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In July 2019, some critics of Home Depot vowed to launch a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett/">boycott of the company</a> after it was revealed that Bernie Marcus, who had directed virtually all of his $6 billion to charity after his death, said some of his money would fund former President Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign.
&#8220;He’s got a businessman’s common sense approach to most things,&#8221; Marcus said of Trump. &#8220;Now, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don’t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.&#8221;
Marcus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-home-depot-co-founder-warns-about-socialism-ryan-saavedra/">warned about socialism</a> in April 2019, saying, &#8220;I want to start by saying something politically incorrect. I love America, I do. I love America because it&#8217;s the greatest country in the world. I think there are two big reasons why this country is so great. The first is our Constitution which guarantees our freedom of speech and expression. The second is our free market system. The free market system has been the biggest creator of wealth and prosperity the world has ever known, lifting billions of people out of poverty and far more superior than any government program could ever be. The free market is the tool that allows money to reach out and grab hold of the American dream.&#8221;
Marcus added, &#8220;It pains me to see people in this country glorifying socialism. Young people especially have been indoctrinated into believing that free enterprise is immoral because it enriches the greedy and depresses the poor.&#8221;
&#8220;Even the word capitalism is not politically correct to use, but the reality is that the free market system has created the biggest middle-class population in the world and while some may say socialism is well-intentioned, the fact is it robs people of their independence, their dignity, and their finances leading to government dependence, suppression of ideas, and lower standards of living for those under its thumb,” he added.

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‘If I Could Buy My Freakin’ Groceries At Home Depot, I Would!’: Critics Rip Boycott Of Home Depot For Not Slamming GA Voter Law

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Nearly every day there&#8217;s another story about a fight breaking out over the wearing of masks.
Just a couple days ago, a Starbucks barista in California was allegedly punched in the face for asking the customer to put a mask on. And a couple weeks ago, a New York man allegedly assaulted a manager and bartender after being asked to put on a face mask to comply with their COVID-19 safety protocols.
The confrontations have turned deadly. A security guard at a Family Dollar store in Michigan was shot dead in May after he told a customer to wear a mask.
Now, a bunch of big stores are deciding the fight just isn&#8217;t worth it.
Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe&#8217;s, CVS, and Walgreens, along with other nationwide retailers, say they&#8217;ll serve customers even if they violate mask mandates, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/business/masks-walmart-home-depot-lowes-cvs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN</a>. The retailers simply want to avoid confrontations between angry customers and employees.
Many states have mandated the wearing of masks, but some have loopholes. Virginia, for example, has a statewide order for residents to wear them, but people with medical issues do not have to comply — and retailers are not allowed to ask people why they aren&#8217;t wearing a mask or demand to see proof that they actually have a medical issue.
&#8220;Walmart, the largest retailer in the country, said it would station employees it calls health ambassadors at the entrance of stores to remind shoppers about mask compliance as they enter,&#8221; CNN reported.
<blockquote>If a customer refuses to wear a mask, health ambassadors are instructed to let the customer into the store and notify management &#8220;so that they can determine the next steps.&#8221;
In talking points for Walmart ambassadors and management, a member of management is instructed to ask if the customer would like a complimentary mask. If the customer refuses, &#8220;let them continue to shop,&#8221; the talking points say. The video tells ambassadors never to engage with a customer physically or try to block their entrance into the store. &#8220;With every requirement there are exceptions that have been established to avoid escalating the situation and putting our associates in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; a Walmart representative said. &#8220;Our goal is to keep associates from a physical confrontation in the stores.&#8221;</blockquote>
The debate over masks has raged for weeks, with some liberals demanding everyone don one while some conservatives find the orders intrusive. Social media exploded last week when Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, was seen with his mask down while sitting shoulder to shoulder with two people after having thrown out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game.
&#8220;When he thinks the cameras are off, Fauci makes a mockery of his &#8216;social distancing&#8217; recommendations and proceeds to brush off his own advocacy,&#8221; wrote Jordan Schachtel.
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When he thinks the cameras are off, Fauci makes a mockery of his &quot;social distancing&quot; recommendations and proceeds to brush off his own mask advocacy.
&quot;Do as I say, not as I do&quot; h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/Ronald_Spitzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ronald_Spitzer</a> <a href="https://t.co/zeBHLjlZST">pic.twitter.com/zeBHLjlZST</a>
&mdash; Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1286637815825141761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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To promote public health and consumer safety, Walmart announced on Friday that it would implement two new changes to the shopping experience at over 4,000 stores across the country.
Beginning on Saturday, April 4, Walmart locations will begin limiting the amount of people inside of a given store at one time. The number of people allowed in a store will be determined by the location’s square footage, with a maximum of five people allowed per 1,000 square feet of store space.
This means that the average Walmart supercenter will be limited to 900 customers at a given time, according to calculations by <a href="https://fox40.com/news/business/walmart-to-limit-number-of-customers-in-stores-starting-april-4/">Fox News</a>. The average Walmart Neighborhood market, which is significantly smaller than a supercenter, would limit the number to about 200 shoppers at a time, according to square footage calculations performed by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walmarts-store-of-the-future-photos-2015-10">Business Insider</a> in 2015.
According to a press release, Walmart will have customers wait in a line outside when the store reaches full capacity, and admit shoppers “one-by-one” as other shoppers leave the store. In addition to the new limit on customers, Walmart stores will also start directing movement throughout the store, beginning next week, to limit the amount of time shoppers interact with other people.
Similar changes have been initiated at different stores across the country.
As <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-retailers-make-safety-changes-for-employees-shoppers/2267199/">NBC News </a>reports, Home Depot stores have begun providing thermometers to employees so that they can take their own temperature before shifts, and has ended its annual spring sales to prevent shoppers from crowding.
Target announced on Friday that they would begin providing gloves and masks to employees before shifts, sometime in the next two weeks, reports <a href="https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/target-to-start-limiting-customers-to-ensure-social-distancing">CBS2-Iowa</a>. The chain store will also cap the amount of customers in a given store, but has provided leeway to individual locations to develop policies.
Costco has also announced a bevy of changes, including that locations will only allow two people inside of the store per membership card: “We’ve increased our protocols in sanitizing surfaces, including shopping cart handles, merchandise shelves, front-end belts and registers. Limits have been implemented on certain items to help ensure more members are able to access the merchandise they want and need.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-toughest-week-ahead-may-take-hydroxychloroquine-himself-as-precaution">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, during a press briefing on Saturday, President Trump announced that the public should prepare itself as the nation enters what could be the “toughest” weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” said Trump. “But a lot less death than if this wasn’t done, but there will be death.”
“Every decision we’re making is made to save lives. It’s really our sole consideration. We want to save lives. We want as few lives lost as possible,” said the president on Saturday.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said during the briefing that the New York, Detroit, and New Orleans areas will likely experience the peak of their cases in seven days. 
“They’re all on the upside of their curve of mortality, so you know when you get to the peak, you come down the other side,” said Dr. Birx. “By the predictions that are in that healthdata.org, they’re predicting those three hotspots, all of them hitting together in the next six to seven days.”

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