Posted on 05/30/2023 11:12:49 AM PDT by Twotone
(”They’re (shoplifters) there every day. When I’m on the floor walking around I would say at least 12, 14 during the day,”)
For most of them, it appears to be a way of life.
Steal, sell on eBay or Craigslist.
Or to their buddies for cash or EBT cards. 💳💳💳
With all these stores closing, Amazon and UPS drivers will soon become targets.
(In recent months, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, T-Mobile, Walgreens, and Saks OFF 5th, all have announced their departures, citing rampant retail theft, violence from homeless vagrants, and loss of foot traffic as residents refuse to shop in the once-beloved city.)
Keep voting Democrat, San Nan Fransicko!!
It’s working!!
Detroitificatin of SF is nearly complete.
Such a shame. I stayed in the Drake Hotel on Union Square years ago. It was an old but very high class hotel.
Now you can’t walk out of that place without getting mugged while stepping in a pile of sh*t.
Probably will never go to SF again.
Detroit is much better than SF, they are actually starting to turn it around.
These store owners don’t like to do equity-sharing/wealth-sharing, democrat style?
Heck, it’s a form of reparations.
Californians need to get used to it, and normalize crime, which is not really crime in the parlance of democrats.
It’s a new way of life. So get used to it or get out.
The stores are just losing money from what the shoplifters steal, they are losing customers because the customers are afraid of the location.
From what I saw two weeks ago, I also predict Macys, Bloomingdales, and Target are next. And most likely the whole Westfield mall and the Metreon. I was struck by the emptiness of all of them. In some case also the sparsity of merchandise.
The collapse of retail and restaurants in the area is not good news for convention business in Moscone center either.
She’s in denial. It’s mostly about the fact that tourists, convention-goers and locals don’t set foot in your fetid downtown shopping districts, precisely because of the conditions.
Then China swoops in and buys it all up for pennies on the dollar.
Where Breed (and others) are very wrong, is that it is the retail street-front businesses that made San Francisco so nice to live in (If you are into city living at all). Retail means more than tourists, it means residential living for middle and upper class folks. Good activities going on. Enjoyable atmosphere.
I guess that is pretty much history now. The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 did less damage to the city than Democrat policies have done!
“Now you can’t walk out of that place without getting mugged while stepping in a pile of sh*t.”
This is not true IMHO. I was just there. It looked perfectly clean and the homeless looked way more pathetic than dangerous. The problem is that all the shopping is going away, and without that...
The liberals I know just say its fake news. How do you counter that?
This says all you need to know. Would you feel safe shopping in that area? Or would you go somewhere else where drug-crazed armed zombies are non-existent?
I suggest the mayor should walk the length of Market Street, unaccompanied by guards and assistants, and open her eyes to the truth. Bad city policies led to retail establishments fleeing the area. Coddle and cater to the criminals, ignore and endanger the taxpayers. Not good at all, democrats are evil.
In residential areas streetfront retail looks just fine.
West Portal, Cole Valley, etc., they seem healthy enough.
Downtown is the real disaster.
One place that does look bad too (or worse than usual), is the Mission, between 16th an 24th St stations. A heck of a lot of closed storefronts where I didn’t expect it. This was a gentrifying area.
I didn’t get to Stonestown mall. That would be a place to watch.
The wondrous technology spawned by the silicon chip has made central business locations largely obsolete. That same technology is wired into amazing automated warehouses. Combined with highly efficient delivery services, retail shopping is optional to most buyers. Given the crime , filth, high taxes and Democrat mismanagement, most decent, rational people avoid cities. Eventually even the hypocritical wealthy will be smoked out of their urban cocoons.
Oh C’mon, go ahead and let them steal all your stuff and put you out of business. At least you won’t have to hurt any black people’s feelings. Isn’t that all you wokesters really care about anyway?
I caught a shoplifter where I work and was thanked by management. Even though the company presses charges against every shoplifter it is of course up to the police and local DA to do anything about it.
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