I was reading about walmart ghost stores. They open a huge store, then later move a short distance to a new location but retain the old location empty, creating a "ghost store". They often continue paying the lease, in anycase they are rarely taken over by others because they are so large.
Some say this pattern is to create large empty buildings dotted around the country that will be (would have been) used by FEMA in a "unforeseen" disaster scenario. The process has plausible deniability as to why there are some 400 empty stores.
I am speculating, but maybe FEMA helps them with the rents on those empty ghost stores, but maybe that FEMA money is going to end soon (because ROTK and their mass casualty event has been aborted/truncated) and so, their stock price will dive very soon, due to all that pointless rent, so sell while you can.
I used to work at an emergency management startup, and I can confirm that FEMA uses Wal-mart buildings/logistics in emergencies. During hurricanes etc - this is already a well established process.
I can’t confirm purposefully empty stores though, but if they were receiving payment from FEMA to do so, I bet they would.
I was reading about walmart ghost stores. They open a huge store, then later move a short distance to a new location but retain the old location empty, creating a "ghost store". They often continue paying the lease, in anycase they are rarely taken over by others because they are so large.
Some say this pattern is to create large empty buildings dotted around the country that will be (would have been) used by FEMA in a "unforeseen" disaster scenario. The process has plausible deniability as to why there are some 400 empty stores.
I am speculating, but maybe FEMA helps them with the rents on those empty ghost stores, but maybe that FEMA money is going to end soon (because ROTK and their mass casualty event has been aborted/truncated) and so, their stock price will dive very soon, due to all that pointless rent, so sell while you can.
I used to work at an emergency management startup, and I can confirm that FEMA uses Wal-mart buildings/logistics in emergencies. During hurricanes etc - this is already a well established process.
I can’t confirm purposefully empty stores though, but if they were receiving payment from FEMA to do so, I bet they would.