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're finally admitting it's a real problem? Because they weren't for a very long time. This has gone way beyond "hire more cops". What has to happen is a fundamental reconsideration of law enforcement precepts in city hall and in academia and in the media and in the citizens at large. It isn't happening.
A lot of schadenfreude there!
Talk about the chickens coming home to roost!
The most woke company and the most woke shithole city getting their comeuppance.
“Organic food giant Whole Foods opened a new ‘flagship’ location at Trinity Place in the city’s Tenderloin district “
In the TENDERLOIN?? The toilet bowl of SF?!
What did they expect?
And they wonder why people are fleeing California.
Don’t blame China.
This is all our doing. China is just taking advantage of our stupidity, and who can blame them.
You think we wouldn’t be doing the same if the roles were reversed?
I don't believe it. I don't see any turds.
Correct. We have a Subway in the county that seems to attract zombies driving through. No idea why they always end up there. The manager walks the parking lot and they’ll be passed out on the wheel so he has to call the cops. Most of the time, they are couriers.
Agree but they have balances it’s all left the destructions are done for a reason it’s not by accident.
“”closed due to rampant drug use in restrooms, violence towards staff - and theft of ALL 250 shopping baskets””
And you were expecting....what?
This is status quo for much of liberal land. Next thing you know, the buns will break into the closed stone and pitch their tents (next to the liquor aisle). Some liberal judge will rule that all the tent dwellers have established ‘residency’ and have the ‘right’ to remain.
Can’t happen? Think again. During Covid, San Francisco placed the homeless in hotels. They actually delivered drugs and alcohol to the bums at the hotel.
I can just see some liberal judge ordering the store, even though it is closed, to keep the liquor aisle stocked so the bums occupying the store can ‘access’ the alcohol.
Same in every democrat run big city in the country. Zombies slouched over against buildings and light poles.
Why did they open this store in the first place? it would not take a genius to predict this outcome. You can not open a business in a jungle. Now there will be complaints about a food desert.
do not be alarmed
we are in the destruction phase of
build back better
10,000 white guys in MAGA hats stealing and beating people up. It just has to be them.
“10,000 white guys in MAGA hats stealing and beating people up. It just has to be them.”
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Whole Foods Closes Its “Flagship” San Francisco Store After Just A Year Due To Crime
It’s yet another story of a major company leaving a U.S. city: this time, it’s a Whole Foods in San Francisco that is closing after barely being open for a year. The location in question is a 64,000 sq.ft. “Flagship” Whole Foods store that you just know the company wouldn’t be closing down unless things truly had run amok.
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