Satan on a Nordic Track (Exercise your demons)

The customers who contributed to the demise of Sav-a-lot foods  now shoplift at Grocery Outlet in Hemet.  Shoplifting isn't seen as a red flag issue.  No one has ever been able to successfully create a stereotypical shoplifter profile.  The effects are never discussed in public forums but the aftermath becomes obvious when the only businesses that dare to open in a city are dollars stores, and liquor stores.  Walmart is venturing into a building that was hexed years ago by a group of angry citizens.  Every business that has tried to operate in that particular building has met the same fate.  Two separate buildings in the same parking lot continue to thrive, but no business has been able to operate successfully in the doomed facility.

Hemet has been relying on Federal funding to operate.  When Hemet was full of retirees it was a vibrant bustling city.  The Federal funding that has followed the new residents into the city, hasn't been able to duplicate the ingenuity, and robust economy Hemet used to brag about.  I don't think we will see the hospital build a parking structure just to tear it down, or any of the other shenanigans demonstrated by previous administrations, like the time they tried to blight the entire city Hemet to create the largest redevelopment agency in the United States.

I know it makes me sound coo coo to talk about hexes and other worldly reasons to explain Hemet's woes, and that's okay.  I would love to be proven wrong.  I just can't ignore what I have witnessed, or the stories I've heard.  It has long been known that Hemet will grant your wishes. (good or bad right or wrong)  Like rubbing a smokey Genie out of a bottle, your wish is my command.  

Exorcise your demons first.