Posted on 05/20/2021 9:59:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
That’s what invariably happens in areas where criminals are coddled and perceived as victims.
I don’t know if shoplifting is the real reason they closed. I’m sure it’s a problem but the drug store wars is crazy. Cities are over-saturated with them.
And Urban hoods complain about there being food deserts and no shopping around them. Wonder why...
Pretty soon shopping in many cities will be like 19th century stores where you had to ask the clerk to get things off the shelf for you, but with the addition of floor-to-ceiling bullet resistant glass separating the clerk from the customers.
Moo and her food deserts v.2.
I could see forcing people to use a phone app to specify what they want, pay for it in advance, then come up to the window and get their stuff.
Once that happens, I can also see stores shifting to Amazon-warehouse robotic picking of goods.
The heroin junkies go for the highest value items they can find to re-sell at flea markets or on craigslist/FB.
Yup. I walked into a Walgreens in San Fran about a year and a half ago and everything in there was under lock-and-key—including snackfoods. It was ridiculous. I walked out without buying anything.
San Fransicko and Californication
do not prosecute stealing under $950 of stuff
so..........
There use to be a store call Service Merchandis at their stores you had to bring a ticket to the counter and they would bring stuff from the back.
The dot com boom did damage to the character of downtown San Francisco that persists to this day. There were many small, successful, independent stores in the 1990s that suddenly in 2000 found themselves facing gigantic rent increases because the demand for space for Internet companies was off the charts and traditional office space was suddenly non-existent. Convenience stores and restaurants kept vanishing overnight, replaced with giant RedGorilla.com or PetShoes.com signs and views through the shop windows of office desks haphazardly strewn over former ground-floor retail spaces.
After the crash, the small businesses never returned - but larger retailers like Walgreens moved in en masse. Now, with the city government and homeless advocates working hand in hand to loot the city's tax base to an extent never before seen, it's understandable that many of those companies who came in the 2000's are thinking better of it, and downsizing their retail footprints.
I think the only growth industry left in San Francisco needing ground-level retail space is drug treatment and psychiatric counseling.
Can’t shoplift at Amazon. Any they’re fine if that’s the only option.
I think they have since liberated the products, but at one in Omaha, NE a couple years ago, I could not pick a $2 bottle of Suave body wash off the shelf, without having to find an employee to unlock and open the case. They said they only locked up the things that were most frequently stolen. I thought, with all the products in a Walgreens, why would people be stealing the $2 body wash?
Welfare people have Obama phones, and they have their welfare EBT cards.
And for people who have neither, there can be a kiosk where they can put in their orders, and feed in cash.
The jokes ... they write themselves...
It’s actually a state law.
Shrink rates are used to determine bonuses for store managers, whether managers and store employees are fired, if more security is needed or even worth the cost, whether stores are closed (or opened) in a given location. The loss prevention department is intimately involved in all of these decisions.
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