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Posted on 04/24/2023 7:14:03 AM PDT by Morgana
A Target store in San Francisco has locked its entire product range behind security glass as crime in the city spirals out of control.
A video posted on TikTok on April 20 shows all of the items in the store locked away from customers.
According to geotagged imagery, some products at the store on Folsom Street were behind glass since at least October of last year, WNCT reported.
The city's residents continue to battle soaring crime, brought to light recently with the murder of Cash App CEO Bob Lee and the brutal broad daylight attack on the city's former fire commissioner.
Industry groups have noted that there is an issue with theft, with the National Retail Federation saying that organized retail crime is setting stores back around $100 billion a year, according to a 2022 survey.
In 2021, retailers saw a 27 per cent increase in theft carried out by organized criminal rings, the survey found. To tackle the issue, they invested more money in safety and security measures to protect employees, customers and merchandise.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Whole Foods is temporarily shutting one of its flagship stores in San Francisco just a year after it opened, citing concerns that crime in the area is endangering its staff. It followed Walgreens shutting down some of its San Francisco stores in 2021 due to theft.
A Whole Foods spokesperson said the company shut the 65,000-square-foot grocery store at Trinity Place in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood 'to ensure the safety' of the store's team members.
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AND in other news:
If you drop your keys in San Francisco kick them south to San Diego before you bend over and pick them up.
The immigrants are making America appear as though it’s the home of the crooks, land of the thieves.
Time to go back to Service Merchandise model of shopping. One item for review, you pay, then you get your purchase.
Right now, there is no reason under the sun I’d be in San Fransisco
Uh . . .
Another food desert in the making, boo hoo.
How about a lock out chamber. Enter first door and it locks. Present ID, inner door unlocks. 🤔. Then again, we haven’t been in one of their stores since they started allowing pervs/joes in the girls bathrooms.
The old time general storevwheryou tell the clerk what you want and he fetches it. Nowadays, from behind a bulletproof barrier...
Do they still have pride parades with all the homeless camps around San Fran?
I think this will be the model used.
We can thank the soft on crime miscreants for this debacle!
That’s racist. /sarc.
My son and I went to the Giants-Mets game yesterday in San Francisco. The Golden State Warriors game was being played at home a mile south of the stadium. We parked our car on the street at Brennan and Third St and had a good lunch before hand at Marlowe. The city was packed, the sun was shining, people were having fun and the Giants won in a very tight contest. Neither team ever got a solid lead. The stadium was maybe one-third full for three innings, but LOTS of people came over from the Warriors game and it was maybe 75% full around the sixth inning.
We had to walk around one bum on the sidewalk, some discarded homeless clothing and a couple piles of crap on the sidewalk. There seemed to be more graffiti than normal. There are still empty restaurants from the general post-COVID crash with people working remotely. The Safeway and Whole Foods stores in the district were bustling.
We weren’t far from the Rincon Hill area where Bob Lee was murdered.
We made sure to completely empty the car before we left so nothing would be attracting bums. I was sure I’d have smashed windows upon returning, but we were gone five hours and our car wasn’t touched when we got back after the game. The on-street electronic parking meter charged us $36 for on-street parking (nearby parking lots were running $50 to $60) because it was a special event day. The old dumb-meter days were a lot nicer when they couldn’t charge what the market would bear.
I hadn’t been to SF is probably five years and expected it to be a total disaster area with our car smashed and us robbed or worse, so I was pleasantly surprised by our visit.
As a current, and temporary resident of San Diego, courtesy of Uncle Sam, I've noticed that San Diego has seem to have been spared the Mad Max dystopia that has infected many other SoCal metropolises.
I'm in an apartment just a few blocks from PetCo stadium so I get the whole urban lifestyle. But it's not really that bad. The homeless population is largely passive. They don't bother people. There's no roaming gangs of "youths" emptying the local CVS. Nobody smashing car windows or slicing tires. I was at Walmart yesterday and while a few things are locked up, most items are freely available to purchase.
My biggest complaints are the landmines of dogsh*t on the sidewalks and that the whole city smells like weed.
I don't know what it is about San Diego that makes it different. Perhaps the large military population.
Welcome to the Hotel Newsomfornia.
That’s rassist or sumpthin’.
“I don’t know what it is about San Diego that makes it different. Perhaps the large military population.”
Silly question perhaps. Do active U.S. military personnel get to smoke weed without repercussions if based in a state etc where it has been legalized for recreational use? I mean, without concern for consequences if drug tested and positive or found in possession of it?
Well, that worked well in Hooterville. Never any complaints from Mr. Douglas, Mr. Haney, etc.
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