Posted on 12/01/2021 3:28:10 PM PST by conservative98
San Francisco’s Union Square, the high-end shopping district at the center of the city, is boarding up for the Christmas shopping season after a string of “mass looting” events that began on the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Normally, Union Square is festive and bright in December. Its giant Christmas tree and menorah attract visitors from across the region, as does its outdoor ice skating rink. Situated alongside the city’s famous cable car, it is an oasis of prosperity in a gritty downtown.
However, this year is different, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
As San Francisco approached the critical December shopping month, instead of holiday lights and Santa Claus decorations, dozens of downtown retailers greeted shoppers with plywood-encased storefronts and armed guards in the wake of mass retail thefts in Union Square two weeks ago.
Around a half-dozen stores in the Union Square area were boarded up on Tuesday, including the Louis Vuitton store and others that sustained damage during the robberies. Other luxury stores such as Gucci, which Mayor London Breed said had an existing security gate system and wasn’t damaged in previous robberies, had a guard outside as well.
It’s a stark contrast from previous years when December in Union Square was marked by windows full of holiday ornamentation and the seasonal enticement of products that could fit under Christmas trees.
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Cheering this on. Not sure which side I’m cheering for.
but keep voting dem
Are the looters working for Amazon?
cuz online sales are gonna go up
At least Home Depot is useful
:)
Wow! I’m glad I got visit there about 20 years ago
Same here. Went to Cisco training in Redwood City. It was right around mid December. San Francisco was just gorgeous that time of year. Weather was in the 60’s, and it was all decorated up, especially Gharidelli square. Now its a rotting piss smelling sh!thole. Thank you liberals. Proof you are the cancer of society! You kill everything you touch,
HoHoHo, Frisco !
It was always a must see. The windows, the tree at Liberty House and then to Podestabaldacci’s. Followed by a dinner of Dungeness crab at the wharf
Perhaps a closed Sears/ K Mart
I like Home Depot
My oh my, now what will they loot? Oh, they’ll just have to go further out to the suburbs ...
I think you mean “not already infested “..
Yep!
Hasty fingers sometimes don’t synch with an old brain...🙂
Instead of trying to solve the problem; Nutsey is in Jupitor, Florida, picking out the drapes for her $25 Million Dollar Digs, income tax free, by the way. Her "Fair Share"....
Boards can easily be broken by looters as seen in NYC
Better to go with steel bars
We would drive into NYC just to look at the store windows! Always spectacular. The Rockettes, the massive tree and ice rink that The Donald fixed. I miss the food, the museums, the Opera. The Village. We would drive in late at night. Can’t remember the the bistro’s name, but we’d play chess all night and watch the silent movies that they played. Then we’d take the ferry at dawn. So much fun. Love NY!
ROFLOL
Fa-la-la-la-la...tis the season to be jolly...
They can have bullet-proof partitions and an L-shaped pass-through window, just like a Brooklyn late-night bodega. Sure will make a great ambiance. Now that’s what makes it worth moving to California!
“Mass Lootings” just cry out for ass shootings!!!
Hey!
I shop a LOT at HD!!
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