Posted on 04/11/2023 7:51:54 AM PDT by Morgana
One of the largest supermarkets in Downtown San Francisco has closed down just one year after opening due to widespread drug use, theft and aggressive behavior towards staff members.
Organic food giant Whole Foods opened a new 'flagship' location at Trinity Place in the city's Tenderloin district in March 2022, hoping to revitalize footfall after two years of draconian COVID restrictions severely impacted businesses in the area.
But a Whole Foods spokesperson declared the store closed down last night due to safety concerns for its staff.
'We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,' the spokesperson said in a statement. '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 City Hall source told The San Francisco Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the store as the driving factors behind the closure.
DailyMail.com has contacted Whole Foods for comment.
It comes just days after Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death just over a mile away as residents flee San Francisco amid rising crime rates.
The Trinity Place Whole Foods store suffered problems from the moment it opened its doors in March 2022, with managers in October reducing operating hours due to 'high theft' and hostile visitors.
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They are getting what they voted for, good and hard...
Whoever decided to build there to begin with should be fired. Crime was horrendous last year; drug use and addicts were present there last year; policies for dealing with those things were just as bad/lax last year and yet, Whole Foods decided to build a ‘flagship’ store? What a bunch of morons.
i see these druggies in bent-over or bent-back positions in many videos/stills. what drug is this, fentanyl?
Zombie walk, he is stoned on heroin.
Exactly.
One is just asking for trouble when opening a business in a liberal controlled city. And it’s not like they opened it 40 or 50 years ago when the city was far better. They opened their store just a year ago when all of its problems were numerous, large, and obvious. Drugs, crime, homelessness, high taxes, onerous freedom crushing government regulations, etc, etc.
Frisco sure sounds like a complete and total disaster.
And might I add: "Bwahahahaha!!!"
Thank you, Whole Foods, for providing 250 free shopping carts to the human trash in San Francisco.
Why can’t the state of California just place a massive order for shopping carts and have them delivered throughout major CA cities?
While they are at it, why not also order hundreds of thousands of tents, air mattresses and sleeping bags? Help the economy. Tents are the original “tiny houses.”
They should also deliver and service (daily) thousands of porta potties in those cities.
Gavin Newsom can use video of these “improvements” in California city life in his presidential campaign.
Newsom can then say, “This is what I will do for all of America if you elect me President.”
San Francisco another test case of destroy the large cities first then move on to the next.
That is tragic.
San Fran and California are one party rule entities. The dim politicians have zero checks and balances on them. This is the result. The have absolute power.
Lots of drugged-out druggies do that pose. It is simultaneously very sad, pathetic and infuriating that we cannot stop this.
How hard can it be to shut the border, execute the big dealers, long prison terms for small dealers, and bring the military down hard on the cartels? The fact that we do none of this tells me all I need to know about how Biden & Co get rich on decades of modest government salaries.
Good grief.
I spent a few years working in Baghdad and surrounding areas during the height of hostilities. I remember being so grateful that where I came from was much more peaceful and sane than what I saw there.
Now, I wonder how I’d feel about that.
People will steal everything if stealing isn’t illegal and punished.
I wonder which elite ivy league genius just made that brilliant deduction.
Pedestrians have learned to just walk around them. Even the cops won't interfere. It's a sad thing.
You made me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH!! EMBRACE the SUCK, DUMBASSES!! Built a YEAR AGO!! They STOLE ALL 250 Carts!!
Uh-huh.
Until what?
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