Target is pulling up stakes on select stores in crime-ridden, Democratic cities, joining the host of other retailers looking for greener pastures. Evidently the company’s efforts to lock aisles of products behind security glass wasn’t a winning solution.

The company is shuttering nine stores across four states: one in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood; three in the San Francisco Bay Area; three in Oregon’s increasingly anarchical city of Portland; and two in Seattle, Washington.

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