Posted on 10/12/2021 6:59:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Walgreens said Tuesday it will close five stores in San Francisco in November, citing the company’s concerns over retail theft in the city.
“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said in a statement.
Law enforcement officials have attributed much of the city’s retail crime to organized theft rings. But public defenders and social justice advocates have argued that many people charged with retail theft act alone — many of them suffering from poverty, homelessness or substance abuse, and needing rehabilitation or other services.
A Chronicle analysis found that shoplifting dropped dramatically at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, then picked up again in the summer of 2020 as stores reopened. By April of this year, shoplifting incidents were still well below pre-pandemic rates, the Chronicle analysis found.
The closures will bring to 22 the number of Walgreens stores closed in San Francisco in the past five years. Caruso said Walgreens is bolstering security measures in its remaining 50-plus city locations.
Shoplifting has become a heated issue, partly fueled by a viral video of a person brazenly putting items into a garbage bag and bicycling out of a Walgreens, past a security guard, in June.
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Walgreen isn’t as popular in California as it is in other states. They had been trying to buy their way in with massive expansion. I am sure they are hurt by shoplifting rings but it’s probably also just that they can’t compete - perhaps in part because of theft but not entirely. They are probably realizing they overexpanded and can’t capture enough share. They should have just raised prices 20% in San Fran to cover cost of pilferage but that makes them even less competitive in a tight market.
Walgreens will have to be closing stores within the next 5 miles diameter on a [’Rat elected prosecutor’s domain] weakly basis, for a couple of months to come.
“many of them suffering from poverty, homelessness or substance abuse, and needing rehabilitation or other services.”
Do these progressives ever ask if their help was so wanted and revered, why so many people refuse it?
Do they ever wonder why the very generous assistance these do get, doesn’t work?
Sorry...whatever the reason, I hope CA burns to the ground (figuratively speaking) and Conservatives finally take over (if any are left).
Those 5 S.F. Walgreens are “racist”, for closing, denying some of their minority customers their free stuff...
“Do these progressives ever ask if their help was so wanted and revered, why so many people refuse it?”
No, it just makes them feel good about themselves. They know they’re SUCH good people...better than you and me, for sure...
Bags of merchandise carried out day after day.
There oughta be a law.
Wait, there is a law.
There oughta be laws enforced on criminals then kept in jail rather than winked at and let go by the judge.
Who’d a thunk!?
How long before the idiots in San Fagcisco have to go to Oakland for groceries?
It looks like they are about to starve themselves.
I know...it is so totally unexpected, isn’t it?
I’m ready to take over at your signal.
Bad for people with prescriptions
Easy solution for SF, simply pass an ordnance PROHIBITING them to leave the city.
Big Biz gets mugged by the reality of the "criminal justice reform" they promoted https://t.co/1EIyifj5Dy— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) October 13, 2021
Then close all the stores and see where the voters go.....
So now shoplifting is no longer a crime but rather a “heated issue.”
Sad. The Walgreens on Sutter and Powell always had the best SF tourist gifts: postcards, key chains, etc. The numerous elderly in SF will need Walgreens to fill prescriptions but the losers in government do not care about the elderly or families or students in SF.
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