Professor Simon does not come right out and say it, I'm reading between the lines here, but I'm taking this as: - even the world's greatest private retailer can't make a buck feeding and medicating the Chicago, "urban poor" - other public spaces run by private firms are struggling with their bathrooms being used as drug lounges - no doctor wants to open a medicaid only practice in these neighborhoods - our nutrition-for-peace arrangement with the blacks is now being rejected, and we may have to rely on peace officers to keep the peace again >The closures reveal the shortcomings of betting that leading chains can provide key public services and fill gaps when local governments have struggled, Bryant Simon, a professor of history at Temple University who studies the role of Corporate America and government, told CNN. >Communities look to Starbucks and McDonald’s for public bathrooms. Companies such as CVS and Walgreens are turned to for vaccines and basic health services. >But the public is left vulnerable when these companies’ business priorities change or they close locations, Simon said. >“We have asked business to solve problems that we don’t want government to solve anymore,” Simon told CNN. “We’re happy to have them do it and then shocked when they act like a business again.”