I’ve got an analogy for whomever might be interested:
“No, the hookers aren’t leaving the area because they’re being assaulted; they’re leaving because there are too many of them and they aren’t making enough money because of the saturation.”
If you know the police are going to do nothing about the shoplifting then why bother calling them?
Right. The Media are a bunch of woke, statist turds. Nothing they say can be trusted.
Nothing.
You are forced as a citizen to unpack everything they say, and a Clintonesque ritual, decipher what the meaning of the word “is” is.
For the Leftists in and out of the media, they cynically leverage this, knowing full well people will see the headline and think “Okay, so the racist Walgreens is lying about why they are closing certain locations...”
“experts cast doubt on that explanation”
I’m sure these so-called “experts” have never been to these stores.
If one item worth $1 was stolen or not it’s Walgreen’s decision to make.
The city needs to sue Walgreens to make them stay there to keep enriching crack whores, street poopers, and escalator/elevator urinators.
Its their business. They can close stores if they want.
Or is Commiefornia so far gone that even that is up to the gubmint?
“experts” What experts?
Experts on why stores close? How does ont become expert at figuring that out.
FWIW, I think the reason is valid.
You can’t stay in business if you’re constantly being robbed. It’s financially a disaster. Nobody goes into business to lose everything and go into debt just as a service to the community.
Hey London! If Walgreens saw fit to close stores in your shitty little, rat infested (two legged kind) town so will others in coming months. Your just whining about the tip of the ice berg.
Nah, I’ve seen enough videos to tell me who’s telling the
truth here.
They’re now down for covering the asses of criminals now.
“Oh, they didn’t cause this.” Bull stuff.
Let’s go Biden... and his ilk.
My guess is that whoever made the decision to close the stores is bright enough to realize that if they close the stores where the major shoplifting is happening, the thieves will move to the other stores they decided to close. No sense in waiting for the inevitable to occur.
These probably being the other "journalists" in the newsroom, shooting the breeze at the water cooler.
“... but I also think when a place is not generating revenue,...”
Because of shoplifting.
My brother-in-law was long-time employee of Walgreens in San Francisco, until retiring last year due to safety concerns. He often spoke about the daily shoplifting at Walgreens stores and how management did nothing. Employees long ago gave up reporting the shoplifting unless employees were assaulted and beaten. B-i-l got punched in the face a couple times; that's a reason to report a crime. But shoplifting, no reporting.
“If it is not a crime for anything under $950 to be stolen, then why would they report it and how could they?”
Exactly, the still need SFPD when there are holdups and shootings. Calling in now-legal shoplifting will get them on really bad terms with the cops.
You report the crime to claim insurance. Unless the ins. company has given you a $1000 deductible per instance, or the police won’t take a report and the manager has to go to the precinct and spend four hours filing a report, or the insurance company won’t accept the manager’s estimate of the theft.
Was the law really written to allow repeat offenders in organized gangs to skate on discrete misdemeanors?
As a life long accounting person-——
Mayor Breed: NO business can “generate enough revenue” when the inventory for sale is leaving the store without payment at the cashiers.
THAT IS THEFT——NOT A PURCHASE. Cannot sugarcoat that.
When that inventory is on the shelf, the store has paid for it.
When the shoplifter with a $999 threshold of freedom to misbehave has the open invitation from local officials to keep TAKING that inventory & NOT PAY FOR IT——that definitely is the definition of LOSS OF REVENUE.
I will be surprised of more such stores DO NOT close in the coming months....
Total incompetence from female or black or both politicians certainly has NOT helped to prove that WOMEN should be given the chance to ‘be in charge’.
The people calling for and responsible for the shoplifting policies have decided that their predictable effect is somebody else’s fault. Yep, they’re Democrats.
State officials know best and not the companies running a business....
Mayor speaks with forked tongue. Can I say that??