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Taxpayer Millions Couldn’t Stop Seven Save A Lot Grocery Stores From Going Dark In Crime-Ridden Chicago

Save A Lot shuttered seven locations across Chicago’s crime-ridden South and West sides over the weekend, once again exposing the dysfunction of a metro area run by unhinged progressives. City officials poured millions of dollars into the grocery outlets in hopes of improving food access, only to watch the stores remain unprofitable amid persistent theft.

Seven Save A Lot grocery stores in Chicago are closing their doors on Saturday, citing financial difficulties.
The company says the stores were severely impacted following the Trump administration’s cuts to SNAP benefits, which it says contributed to the closures. pic.twitter.com/DywVtWGv7B
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Local outlet ABC 7 reports “frustration, anger, and concern” among the community as Save A Lot shuttered seven stores on Saturday, with many residents saying this would reduce their access to food.

The outlet noted:

Save A Lot began a partnership with retail company Yellow Banana in 2023 in an effort to keep grocery stores open on the city’s South and West sides and combat food deserts.

A company spokesperson cited financial struggles and cuts to SNAP benefits as reasons for the closures. In a statement, the company said, “We are committed to the wellbeing of the communities we serve. We will continue to engage with City and Community leaders to explore ways to provide access to quality food and services for residents, and we are actively supporting impacted Yellow Banana team members throughout the transition.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Yellow Banana had a $26 million redevelopment agreement with the city of Chicago and received more than $13 million in taxpayer financing to renovate and reopen Save A Lot locations. The rest of the funding came from federal grants and loans.

Despite the debate on X over whether the seven locations qualified as “government grocery stores,” they were privately owned and operated but supported with taxpayer funding. Even with public backing, the stores failed to turn a profit. Theft was likely a major factor in the shutdowns, although the operator cited broader financial pressures and reductions in SNAP benefits.

Add Save A Lot to the growing list of retailers reducing their exposure to Chicago, alongside Walgreens, Aldi, and Walmart. Walgreens and Aldi explicitly cited theft, burglaries, and violent incidents in certain closures, while Walmart and Save A Lot pointed more broadly to persistent losses and financial headwinds.

The accelerating retail exodus suggests Chicago’s progressive governing model enforced by City Hall is backfiring. Without basic public safety and a commercially viable operating environment, progressives risk even broader food and pharmacy deserts in low-income areas as businesses want no part of lawless neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, socialist politicians gaining power at the local level are promoting taxpayer-funded supermarkets and “free food for everyone.” Yet history offers little evidence that government-run grocery models can remain efficient, financially sustainable, or responsive to consumers without persistent subsidies. But, of course, these politicans pitch ‘this time is different’ … 

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Mon, 07/27/2026 – 19:40

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Brooks Nader has seemingly been everywhere this summer.Between filming Fox’s upcoming “Baywatch” reboot in Los Angeles and hopping from one European hotspot to another, the 29-year-old model has kept fans updated every step of the way.This week, Nader added another memorable moment to the itinerary.BROOKS NADER NARROWLY AVOIDS WARDROBE MALFUNCTION MINUTES BEFORE ‘BAYWATCH’ REBOOT RED CARPETAfter spending the afternoon dining at the iconic Club 55 in Saint-Tropez and cooling off with a swim, Nader experienced an unexpected fashion mishap. As she made her way back across the sand, her leopard-print halter playsuit briefly slipped, exposing her chest before she quickly adjusted the look.Despite the fashion mishap, Nader appeared unfazed as she continued enjoying the glamorous beach day.Nader gave followers a behind-the-scenes look aboard a luxury yacht through a series of Instagram Stories, including one that showed her posing in the same leopard-print halterneck playsuit after sunset.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERKneeling across cream-colored lounge cushions, Nader flipped her blonde hair over one shoulder while overlooking the Mediterranean. Another shot captured her sitting on the yacht with the sparkling coastline behind her, showing off the plunging animal-print look accented with a colorful jeweled brooch at the waist.A change of scenery also meant a change of outfit.In another Instagram Story, Nader traded the leopard-print ensemble for a casual white two-piece while walking barefoot up an elegant wooden staircase. She paired a fitted white tank top with cheeky white shorts that read “Saint-Tropez French Riviera” across the back.BROOKS NADER WOWS IN ICONIC RED ONE-PIECE BATHING SUIT AS ‘BAYWATCH’ REBOOT FILMS BEACH SCENESBefore leaving France, the model admitted she wasn’t ready for the trip to end.Sharing another Story as she departed the yacht, Nader filmed her friends waving goodbye before writing, “Torture leaving my fave place & peeps, back to work I go.”She also documented the vacation on TikTok, including a playful video filmed aboard the yacht set to a trending Melania Trump sound.BROOKS NADER FLAUNTS HER TONED ABS IN BLACK BIKINI WHILE FILMING HER REALITY SHOWAs it turns out, wardrobe malfunctions have become somewhat of an unexpected trademark for the model.Last year, Nader made headlines after unexpectedly bleeding through a white skirt while attending Wimbledon. Rather than hide the mishap, she leaned into the viral moment, sharing it on TikTok, where the video amassed nearly 200,000 likes before ultimately leading to a partnership with U by Kotex.Her latest European getaway comes during an especially busy stretch in both her personal and professional life.According to People, Nader is currently single after previously being linked to actor Taron Egerton. A source told the outlet that while she’s been enjoying dating, her attention is firmly on work.”Brooks is totally single right now. She’s been going out on dates and having fun, but her main focus is Baywatch,” the source told People.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSThe insider added that Nader is currently balancing production on Fox’s upcoming “Baywatch” reboot alongside filming the second season of her Hulu and Freeform reality series, “Love Thy Nader.”Nader also recently dismissed romance rumors herself, telling TMZ she and Egerton “never were” dating and insisting she’s “just single, having fun, always.”Before that, the model dated her former “Dancing with the Stars” partner Gleb Savchenko following the end of her marriage to advertising executive Billy Haire. She has also been linked to tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.

As negotiation tactics go, asking for a trade the day before training camp opens is the NFL equivalent of reaching for the nuclear codes before deciding to type them in. But that’s exactly what Tampa Bay Buccaneers nose tackle Vita Vea has done.The two-time Pro Bowl player has grown so frustrated with contract discussions this offseason that he’s decided he doesn’t see a future with the team, and has asked to be traded, a league source confirmed to Fox News Digital.That doesn’t mean a trade will happen. Vea is under contract for the 2026 season and is scheduled to make up to $18 million if he can play all 17 games in the final year of his current contract.A.J. BROWN HEADED TO NEW ENGLAND TO REUNITE WITH MIKE VRABEL AFTER A SEASON OF EAGLES UNHAPPINESSThe Bucs aren’t simply going to hold a fire sale to avoid the trade talk distraction, per a source.Vea wants more money and points to the fact he is currently the 19th-highest-paid interior defensive lineman in the league. And he believes he is much better than the 19th-best defensive lineman in the league.Vea is, for all intents and purposes, the structural centerpiece of the Tampa Bay defense. He is arguably the team’s best run defender and, as all NFL defensive coordinators often note, if a defense cannot stop the run it is unable to do much of anything else.Vea provides a rare combination of size, power to movement to control the middle of the formation from his nose tackle spot. At 6-foot-4 and 347 pounds, Vea has anchored against double-teams for much of his recent years.Despite this attention, he is able to clog interior rushing lanes and prevent offensive linemen from climbing cleanly to the second level of Tampa Bay’s defense. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2019, he has helped the Buccaneers establish one of the NFL’s most consistently productive run defenses.From 2019 through most of the 2024 season, Tampa Bay ranked first in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per game at 94.1, first in yards allowed per carry at 4.0 and finished in the top five against the run in five of six seasons, including No. 1 finishes in 2019 and 2020.COWBOYS LOCK IN GEORGE PICKENS WITH $27.3M FRANCHISE TAG DESPITE FAILING TO REACH LONG-TERM CONTRACTVea played only five games in 2020 due to a fractured ankle, but he’s proven durable ever since. He has started 78 games in the past five seasons.Vea’s individual production shows he is more than a traditional space-eating nose tackle but he set a career high with seven sacks in 2024, then added 4.5 sacks, seven tackles for loss and 13 quarterback hits in 2025.His 2024 pass-rush production made Tampa Bay one of only three teams that season with two defensive tackles recording at least seven sacks, as Vea and Calijah Kancey both reached that mark.Vea was selected to the Pro Bowl following the 2021 and 2024 seasons, earned a place on the NFL Players Association’s Top 100 list entering 2025 and was a key member of Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl LV championship team.This trade request creates issues for the Bucs.It’s possible Vea, who reported but did not take part in the teams mandatory minicamp and missed the rest of the offseason program, might decide to simply hold in to start training camp – that is to say, he shows up but doesn’t practice.No coach likes that. No team wants that.The Buccaneers are already managing the high-stakes contract negotiations with quarterback Baker Mayfield as their top contract issue. So dealing with a very large star defender who has publicly let it be known he wants out is not great for the team.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson on Monday evening denied President Trump’s request to immediately reinstate key parts of his executive order on mail-in ballots.
Justice Jackson gave the Democrat-run plaintiff states seven days to respond to Trump’s emergency application.
Last month, a federal judge blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots.
Boston-based US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order, specifically his attempt to create a federal voter list.
In March 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.
“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” the executive order said.
“Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error,” the EO said.
“et the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,” the executive order said.
“Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections,” Trump said.
Last month a separate federal judge permanently banned Trump from implementing his executive order that required proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
Boston-based US District Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, said the Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”
On Saturday, a federal appeals court refused to allow President Trump enforce key parts of his executive order.
President Trump filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court earlier Monday and Justice Jackson denied his request.

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Every industry gets one moment when the crowd changes its mind all at once.It gets written up later as strategy. Up close it looks more like relief, a room full of executives who spent three years promising one future finally allowed to say out loud that the math never worked. The write-down gets forgiven because everyone is taking one.The car business had that moment last fall.The $7,500 federal clean vehicle credit expired on Sept. 30, 2025, and the demand that had been yanked forward into the third quarter stopped showing up. Battery-electric vehicles made up roughly 6% of U.S. sales in the second quarter of this year, down from a peak near 11% during the pre-deadline scramble, according to Cox Automotive figures cited by Inside Climate News.What followed was one of the fastest strategy reversals American manufacturing has produced. At least 18 automakers have canceled, delayed, or scaled back electric plans in the U.S., reported Autoblog. Ford (F) converted a Tennessee plant built for EVs into a gas truck plant. General Motors (GM) idled battery lines in Ohio and Tennessee.Almost nobody wanted to be caught holding an electric product plan.Subaru (FUJHY) kept building one anyway.How the EV pullback reshaped every showroomThe retreat was not subtle, and it was not cheap. The charges landed on balance sheets fast enough that most buyers never registered them, but they explain why the crossover a family shopped in 2024 may not exist in 2027.Here is what walking away actually cost, and what one holdout did instead.Ford took a $19.5 billion charge in December as it scaled back EV programs, according to Steel Market Update.General Motors recorded $7.6 billion in EV-related charges in the second half of 2025 and another $1.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, per the same tally.Honda dropped its 0 Series SUV, 0 Series Saloon, and the Acura RSX from U.S. plans, reported Autoblog.Subaru finished among the small group of brands posting EV sales gains in the first half of this year, according to Cox Automotive data.That last bullet is the one that stopped me. I went back through Subaru of America’s monthly releases to check it, because a gain in this market reads like a typo.Honda chief executive Toshihiro Mibe framed the industry’s thinking plainly, saying hybrids will “continue to be the key to addressing environmental challenges until around 2030,” Steel Market Update noted. It seemed like a reasonable position, and most of the industry took it. 

The three-row Getaway is Subaru’s fourth EV, approved as rivals booked billions in write-downs.Josh Lefkowitz / Getty Images

What Subaru is actually putting in dealershipsSubaru will have four EVs available to U.S. consumers by early next year while continuing to invest in gas and hybrid models, and it has approved a redesign of the Ascent three-row crossover, according to Automotive News. The Impreza survives, too, in a segment most rivals mothballed years ago.More Automotives:GM displays Q2 growth in key areas Tesla would be jealous ofDown 99%, popular EV stock is ripe bankruptcy candidateElon Musk just got a new rival on three frontsThe fourth EV is the three-row Getaway, a 420-horsepower, seven-seat SUV with more than 300 miles of range and a native NACS charging port, according to Subaru of America. It is the most powerful production vehicle the company has built.Read the strategy sideways, and it is less about electricity than about coverage. Subaru of America chief operating officer Jeff Walters described the goal as “expanding our versatile lineup of models offering gas, hybrid, and fully electric options,” the company’s year-end sales statement explained. Subaru sold 643,591 vehicles in the U.S. in 2025.That is the whole bet. Let buyers pick the powertrain, and refuse to guess which one wins.Why the Getaway delay complicates the storyFour days after the product plan surfaced, the company confirmed the Getaway is slipping. “The start of production for the Getaway is expected to be delayed,” Subaru said in a statement provided to Carscoops, with no revised date offered.The Getaway shares a Kentucky assembly line and most of its hardware with the electric Toyota Highlander, which flagged its own eight-week slip early in July. Related: Top Toyota exec urges Japan’s automakers to uniteMy read is that this makes Subaru’s position more interesting, not less. A company panicking would have used the Toyota delay as cover to quietly shelve the model. Subaru confirmed a schedule change and kept the vehicle.The broader market may be turning toward that patience. U.S. EV sales rose 14.2% from the first quarter to the second, and Cox Automotive said the market “now appears to be stabilizing after the anticipated correction,” reported InsideEVs.What Subaru’s bet means for your next car paymentStrip out the strategy talk, and this lands on a practical question. When you finance a vehicle for 72 months, you are betting the manufacturer still cares about that product line in 2032.Buyers who purchased a canceled model this cycle are finding out what the other answer feels like. Software updates thin out. Dealer expertise drifts elsewhere. Resale takes the hit that shows up on the trade-in sheet, not in a press release.Subaru’s calculation is that keeping the Impreza, redesigning the Ascent and shipping four EVs costs less than guessing wrong. It is an expensive way to stay flexible, and it is the reason a Subaru shopper in 2028 will probably still have a choice.Watch the third-quarter EV numbers and the Getaway production date. If both hold, the brand that refused to fold will have bought something the write-down crowd cannot get back quickly, which is a lineup already in showrooms when demand returns.Related: Toyota sends mixed message on its EV future

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