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Whole Foods cites concerns for employee safety, shutters San Francisco flagship store
The Post Millennial ^ | April 11, 2023 | Ari Hoffman

Posted on 04/12/2023 8:06:01 AM PDT by Twotone

A Whole Foods Market, one of the largest supermarkets in downtown San Francisco closed at the end of business Monday, just over a year after the store opened, according to a new report

Company officials told The Standard in a statement, “We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being. If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”

A source at City Hall said that the outlet’s “flagship location” cited drug use and crime near the 64,737 square feet location as reasons for the closure.

Last year, the grocery store at Eighth and Market Street previously cut its operating hours due to hostile visitors and “high theft" and then enforced new bathroom policies after syringes and other drug paraphernalia were regularly left in store restrooms, according to one of the store's managers.

San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey, whose district includes the market, said in a Twitter thread that he was “incredibly disappointed” by the store’s closure and announced that he will introduce legislation with Supervisor Catherine Stefani to amend the City Charter and get the Police Department fully staffed within five years.

The department is currently short over 600 officers of its staffing goal

Decreased foot traffic following government-mandated shutdowns in response to the pandemic has led to many businesses closing and homelessness, drug use, and mental illness on the streets becoming more visible.

The negative financial impacts of the closures have led to an expected $800 million deficit in the city’s budget.


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KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; dystopia; sanfrancisco; shuttered; wholefoods

1 posted on 04/12/2023 8:06:01 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Now, San Franciscans will no longer be able to Steal healthy food.


2 posted on 04/12/2023 8:08:34 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: Twotone

Meanwhile San Fransisco’s former mayor and current California governor is bopping around red states bashing Republicans instead of taking care of his own cesspool.


3 posted on 04/12/2023 8:12:18 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Twotone

Since stealing shopping carts and shoplifting up to $950 worth of goods are legal, more police will change nothing.

Liberals are incapable of learning from either books or advice or experience. They are beyond stupid.


4 posted on 04/12/2023 8:47:03 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Twotone

San Francisco has a projected 800 million dollar budget deficit?

And yet San Francisco is planning to pay reparations for slavery.?

What the heck?


5 posted on 04/12/2023 10:07:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Twotone

Congratulations! YOU are NUMBER SIX!

Whole Foods in San Francisco Closes Due to Crime, Drugs
Newsmax ^ | April11, 2023 | Fran Beyer

Posted on 4/11/2023, 5:44:26 PM by Navy Patriot

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144824/posts

Checkout’s closed: Whole Foods FLAGSHIP San Francisco store closes after just one year because of rampant drug use in restrooms, violence towards staff - and theft of ALL 250 shopping baskets

04/11/2023 8:16:06 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 3 replies
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 11 2023 | DAVID AVERRE

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144785/posts

Checkout’s closed: Whole Foods FLAGSHIP San Francisco store closes after just one year because of rampant drug use in restrooms, violence towards staff - and theft of ALL 250 shopping baskets

04/11/2023 7:51:54 AM PDT · by Morgana · 54 replies
Daily Mail UK ^ | April 11, 2023 | David Averre

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144777/posts

Whole Foods Is Shuttering Its Flagship Store in San Francisco Just a Year After It Opened

04/10/2023 8:34:26 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
Red State ^ | 04/10/2023 | Susie Moore

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4144690/posts

Whole Foods to close San Francisco flagship store a year after opening

04/10/2023 6:39:07 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 50 replies

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144676/posts

... yet the Search Function still works.


6 posted on 04/12/2023 10:44:13 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli
With luck, I will be NUMBER SEVEN.

Lucky Seven!

Wish me luck.

7 posted on 04/12/2023 10:46:01 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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To: Twotone

Good news: maybe this will make it matter to reasonable people that vote in these districts.

Bad news: criminals will find it necessary to travel farther and contaminate previously nicer neighborhoods.


8 posted on 04/12/2023 11:10:06 AM PDT by Egon (I collect spores, molds, and fungus.)
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To: Paal Gulli

I searched on the title. If the titles aren’t identical I can’t help it.


9 posted on 04/12/2023 11:24:36 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Trannies and people of color hardest hit.


10 posted on 04/12/2023 11:54:28 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Twotone

I thought the flagship store was the first one?


11 posted on 04/12/2023 12:30:09 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

This was the first store built by Bezos, Amazons flagship store!! What an absolute MORON building it in SF, I assumed Bezos was a hell of a lot smarter than this LOL, LOL!!!!


12 posted on 04/12/2023 12:34:27 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

They’ve got a warehouse in Knoxville that was shuttered before it opened.


13 posted on 04/12/2023 12:39:01 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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