Posted on 07/07/2023 8:00:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Another retailer is fleeing Union Square in downtown San Francisco — this time, a century-old haberdashery known for its hats, which is leaving what was once one of the most desirable retail locations in America.
The departure of Goorin Bros. from its Union Square location is the latest sign that pandemic lockdowns, the shift to work-from-home in the tech industry; soaring crime in the city; and persistent homelessness are having a devastating effect on the city’s downtown.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday:
Goorin Bros. boutique at 111 Geary Street went dark on June 23 amid the city’s struggles to lure back tourists and office workers. San Francisco is also steadily losing cafes and restaurants, and nearly a third of its offices sit empty.
“It’s never an easy decision but it was time,” a company representative wrote in a statement. “There are a number of reasons I’m sure but really it was our smallest location and there’s just been a shift in business plan/direction over the last few years. We have a large store in North Beach still.”
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Founded in 1895, Goorin Bros. appeared to be thriving prior to the pandemic, introducing a new line of hats in 2017 that included decadent military headpieces with dangling gold chains, and materials culled from an Amazonian fish.
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People tire of stepping around the human debris.
Are these places reopening in wealthy suburbs, or are they just going away completely? Or both?
And the band played on...
Sad.
Hehehe. And the first exposė of the fraud which is Anthony Fauci.
Oh my! Where are we going to buy our bowlers now?
“Hats off, gentlemen!”
In this instance, the store continues to run a store in the North Beach area, but most such historic retail outlets are shutting down completely, many still available for new owners. It cost a lot just to exist in this part of San Francisco. The rents remain very costly.
One also has to factor in that unlike in the past, most men do not wear hats on a regular basis. Perhaps most people under the age of 50, don’t even know what the term
“Haberdasher” even means. They buy off the rack or off the internet, most never having hired a tailor except to make suits for their high school prom, wedding or funeral, if they even bother using dress clothes for those. Most have never worn cuff links or learned to tie a men’s tie on their own.
They will never vote for the Republican Nazis. Just to make it clear in case some people are thinking of this possibility.
like watching a slow motion car accident.
It is becoming old hat.
A real niche market...catering to men who want hats which are at least 100 years old.
A hat store? I’m surprised that didn’t go way of the horse and buggie.
The hat industry will stay strong as long as the come up with innovative new hats like those made from”material culled from an Amazonian fish.”
I don’t think I want to know any more about that
“...a new line of hats in 2017 that included decadent military headpieces with dangling gold chains, and materials culled from an Amazonian fish.”
Sounds like a real loser.
Religious Jewish men have fedora-type hats as part of their ‘uniform’. Limited to walking on Sabbath and holidays, hats are a throwback to when they offered some protection from weather and sun.
Ubiquitous transportation in automobiles killed most of the general hat market, except for baseball-type caps. Hats for women are mostly gone too.
I see men wearing hats in movies, and I see a lot of people wearing baseball caps backwards. But hats on the street? I am surprised a hat store lasted this long; I thought JFK pretty much ended the hat industry in this country back in the early ‘60’s.
No one in city government seems to care about these businesses leaving.
I love how they try to bring in everything else they can as
a cause for this, and downplay the homeless situation, the
crap and urine, the smash and grabs, the other assorted
crimes.
What a despicable place San Francisco has become.
Whatever causes these people to scatter to the four winds
and results in San Francisco’s streets returning to habitable
status (lawful street passage and healthy business climate)
would be fine with me.
It’s time for some dutch uncle love!
Kick some ass!
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