crack

The Arco AMPM is the center for drug trade in my neighborhood. It is difficult to go near the place without someone offering to sell you drugs and people are often doing drugs all around the store parking lot. It is amazing to me that a national chain of a well established business is allowing all of this to go on right under their nose. Although I don't know a lot about drugs, I understand from a neighbor that has had problems with AMPM for a long time that crack is sold in little 'dime bags' that are often decorated with popular logos (playboy, nike, mercedes etc) these empty bags can be seen scattered all over the parking lot of the Arco AMPM. Too bad that they don't even bother to try to clean the place up. Here is a photo of some of them that I picked up while walking my dog this morning.

lockdown

We had another lockdown in our neighborhood the other day as some violent crime that originated at the Arco/AM-PM store spread out into the neighborhood. It is frustrating that a business that is so obviously the center of the crime problem in the neighborhood does so little to help with the problem.

I wrote a note to Ron Scherman of their "*elite* Customer Solutions" whom of course did not even bother to respond to my email, this seems to be their standard way of not dealing with all of the problems from their store.