Posted on 10/19/2020 7:53:14 AM PDT by RightGeek
After months of seeing its shelves repeatedly cleaned out by brazen shoplifters, the Walgreens at Van Ness and Eddy in San Francisco is getting ready to close.
The last day is Nov. 11, Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso said.
The drugstore, which serves many older people who live in the Opera Plaza area, is the seventh Walgreens to close in the city since 2019.
All of us knew it was coming. Whenever we go in there, they always have problems with shoplifters, said longtime customer Sebastian Luke, who lives a block away and is a frequent customer who has been posting photos of the thefts for months. The other day, Luke photographed a man casually clearing a couple of shelves and placing the goods into a backpack.
I feel sorry for the clerks, they are regularly being verbally assaulted, Luke said. The clerks say there is nothing they can do. They say Walgreens policy is to not get involved. They dont want anyone getting injured or getting sued, so the guys just keep coming in and taking whatever they want.
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When a clerk was asked where all the goods had gone, he said, Go ask the people in the alleys, they have it all.
Homeless encampments are common in the neighborhood, including two just across Eddy Street.
No sooner had the clerk spoken than a man wearing a virus mask walked in, emptied two shelves of snacks into a bag, then headed back for the door.
As he walked past the checkout line, a customer called out, Sure you dont want a drink with that?
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Under California law, theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Shop-raping. When you can walk in and fill bags and leave, it’s shop-raping.
And the rise of online shopping and home delivery continues.
Does Amazon take EBT? If not I can see them being forced to take it to prevent “disenfranchisement” or whatever fancy word that will be used to describe people with bad credit.
Hmmmm? A full service customer service counter with windows outside the store. You stand in line to talk to a service person, they take your order and give it to an employee to fill, and they will meet you at your transportation with the order. Sort of like the grocery drive up service. Also take phone orders but no customer access to the store.
Maybe a qualification for store entry, ie home address, phone number, bank info, credit rating, job, etc etc. So many avenues to shut down the criminal activity leading to our destruction much less private business being destroyed. Just think of the jobs produced. Then there is the issue of waiting in lines. Shopping will be a chore. So important to have that authorized access to the store for worry free shopping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vigilance
Perhaps it is time to set up a new Committee of Vigilance
“Steeped like a teabag in the topic of racism and he could not recognize it coming out of his own mouth”
Raised to believe blacks aren’t racist and all other races are no doubt...he wasn’t born with those ideas that’s for sure.
Bingo. That was really scary because based on the quality of his presentation he was clearly an intelligent young man. Smart people with faulty moral compasses inflict most of the damage in this world.
If the citizens of San Francisco really wanted to fix this they should go to the homes of the city council and mayor and demand they open their doors and invite the citizens in for free stuff.
The solution is to not essentially legalize theft as long as it's under $1,000. Additional security guards would just lead to the thieves getting belligerent, viral videos claiming the stores are racist, and lawsuits. So they let them steal and eventually just go out of business. The death spiral of leftist policies is now in hyperdrive in the once beautiful and safe city of San Francisco.
Under California law, theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor.
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Real Democracy in action - When two wolfs and one sheep vote on what to have for dinner.
This law was passed by a vote of the citizens of California.
This isn’t a Walgreens problem, it’s a societal problem, mostly prevalent in Democrat cities and strongholds. Not to mention the total lack of consequences in those areas. And security guards aren’t going to prevent anything because the criminal element know they’ll be under the same nonintervention policies in effect right now for clerks. Besides, one distracts and the rest rob the place blind anyway. This is all part of the plan to break down our society until the masses have had enough and demand a solution. A solution the globalists will be more than happy to supply. A solution that means the end to life on this planet as we know it. And it won’t be pretty.
Don’t remember the name of it but we had a store like that. Everything was under lock and key or glass. There were clerks that would take it out so you could feel it, look at it. Then you received a tag to take to the checkout line. Once purchased it came out of the stockroom on one of 2 different conveyor belts. An employee at the bottom of the conveyor belt would pick the item up, look at it, and then call your name and hand it to you.
I have a friend who lives in St Paul, Mn. She says it is the same with the Walgreens there. Fill up a shopping cart full of stuff and walk out the door. They don’t do anything about it.
“smart people with faulty moral compasses....”
That is VERY dangerous
I am just kinda surprised that California hasn’t become a “Crime Tourism” destination. Visit, steal $950 in merchandise a less per day, fence some, keep the rest and go home.
Disagree. The endgame is that eventually there will not be stores in these locales. I live in the vicinity of Camden, New Jersey. Much smaller than San Francisco but an interesting case study on how crime changes a vibrant city.
In the '20s through the '60s Camden was home to two of the USAs biggest corporations: Campbell Soup and RCA (owner of the NBC network and the largest manufacturer of consumer electronics in the country. It was a prosperous and vibrant community. In the 70s crime began going insane in Camden. By the '80s there were literally ZERO grocery stores left in Camden, they all shut down and fled. They just couldn't stay in business with the uncontrollable theft they were exposed to. The result was that the city residents were forced to leave the city to shop. And to this day they still have to.
That's where San Francisco is headed, not because of violent crime but because of basic economics. It's headed there because this sort of thing is now essentially legal there:
Youtube: San Francisco CVS being Cleaned Out By Brazen Shoplifters
“Who are these ‘brazen shoplifters’?”
The people whose race cannot be mentioned. Not even here if Un-Freerepublic.
One of my posting was just zotted by the little nazi moderators that run this place for daring to ask if separation might be a solution.
Who needs Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Apple to “cancel” you when you have Un-Freerepublic that is even quicker at doing so.
Truly disappointing, sad and pathetic!
Amazon does take EBT in some states which are listed at the site.
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You could have a storefront with a few kiosks in the front and a warehouse in the back. Your items would be retrieved by robots and delivered by conveyor belt after you pay for them. That wouldnt work for the pharmacy part, though. In SF, Im surprised they dont need an armed guard to secure the prescription drugs.
If the “folks” live in a food desert, they can use their Obama phone to order groceries and have them delivered using a new Amazon flying drone. Grape soda and Fritos make a great breakfast.
Not getting involved will soon be taken to the next level as in no longer in SF.
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