(”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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
Sad. Market St. has been tough for many years. From 1985-1995 I took my parents to Union Square on the Friday after Thanksgiving to see the beautiful windows and amazing clothes people were wearing. Exciting. Yes, those were the days. Sears restaurant on Union Square is still nice.
San Francisco see Mad Max movie same.