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Walgreens to close 5 more S.F. stores, citing rising costs of retail crime
San Fran Chron. via MSN ^ | 10 12 2021 | Andres Picon

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: sanfrancisco; shoplifting; walgreens
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To: yesthatjallen
Caruso said Walgreens is bolstering security measures in its remaining 50-plus city locations.

How? Do they put up "Please Don't Shoplift" signs?

21 posted on 10/12/2021 9:23:49 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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22 posted on 10/12/2021 10:36:24 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Paladin2

Walgreens, at least in SF, would be better served operating a ‘we-deliver’ system, where you go on-line and the items are ordered, and delivered each evening between 7 and 10 PM. Zero reason to run a brick-and-mortar pharmacy in an urbanized area like this.


23 posted on 10/12/2021 11:51:49 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Falconspeed

Thank soros. Rico rudy where are you?


24 posted on 10/13/2021 3:48:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Tell them what they want to hear with sincerity and do what is necessary )
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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.

Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, gets past the ace analysts of the Chronicle.

25 posted on 10/13/2021 6:15:46 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Leftist logic:

1. Police enforcement of crimes is racist.
2. Stop enforcing the laws.
3. No more racism!

And now,

1. Racist stores shut down bc of shoplifting.
2. Give the shoplifters unemployment benefits.


26 posted on 10/13/2021 6:33:23 AM PDT by nicollo
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To: Falconspeed

“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.”

Who do the numerous elderly in SF vote for? Oh well, elections have consequences.


27 posted on 10/13/2021 6:46:19 AM PDT by utax
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To: yesthatjallen

Why not just convert to drive-through/curbside service only? Very limited theft if you get the payment before the dude even has items in hand.


28 posted on 10/13/2021 9:34:38 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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