A small business owner in Portland, Oregon, was forced to permanently close her shop after a string of break-ins left the clothing store no longer financially sustainable.
Marcy Landolfo, the owner of Rains PDX, wrote in a note posted to the front of the store that she hasn’t received any financial reimbursement since the third robbery, explaining that due to the “constant … criminal behavior, coupled with escalating safety issues for our employees,” she has decided to permanently close.
The front doors of Rains PDX, a Portland, Oregon clothing store. (Google Maps/NTD News)
“Our city is in peril,” the owner’s note plastered on Rains PDX’s front door reads, a KATU reporter shared on Twitter. “Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state.”…