Posted on 12/01/2021 12:49:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Safeway grocery store at 2020 Market Street is a case study, not just for the recent concerns regarding retail theft in San Francisco, but issues around food accessibility, policing and poverty.
The longstanding store in the Castro neighborhood was one of the few major grocery stores that stayed open 24 hours, providing a place for people who work the night shift to do their shopping and parents to make middle-of-the-night runs for children's medicine. But Safeway announced in late October it was cutting its hours to close at 9 p.m. because of an alleged “increasing amount of theft” at the store.
San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes the Safeway, said in a statement that shoplifting at the store “is out of control.”
“When I met with Safeway representatives last month, they informed me that this store had the worst six-month loss of inventory at any location in the history of the company,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
they’re lucky the grocery plans to stay there at all
What is “complicated” about passing a law that you can steal less than $950 and get a misdemeanor and getting a communist DA that won’t prosecute crimes?
What's the point of filing a police report in San Franshitsco? It's just a waste of time, as nothing will ever be done about the thefts.
Diversity is our strength.
I did a research paper that studied the cost of a fixed basket of goods at a grocery chain in Omaha, NB. I bought the basket at an downtown store and the same basket at a suburban store. The cost of the basket in the downtown store was 11% higher. Some people are going to start screaming “racism” as that’s the Liberal cry when prices are different. Followup interviews, however, with the managers said the difference was virtually totally explained by theft, but some also said a past robbery seems to have played a part.
Maybe Liberals would have more success if they started programs that teach it’s wrong to steal rather than blame everything on Whitey.
I often shop at the neighborhood grocery stores in the “rich” neighborhoods. Prices are way cheaper.
I was talking to some liberal family members about cheaper prices in the rich neighborhoods, which they scoffed at assuming it was classism. I said I had a theory, that there is less shoplifting in the rich neighborhoods, so the store managers don’t have to make up the difference by jacking up prices. It actually made them stop and think.
If they can’t stop robbing the place, it should close.
Let’s not admit there’s a problem, let’s just beat up on the victim, which in this case is the business. If I were them, I’d cut my losses and close the store.
When I lived in LA and worked late hours, I did my grocery shopping at night and always felt perfectly safe because there were so many people and the parking lots were so well lit. When I moved back to the midwest and shop at night it can be eerie because there are so few folks shopping and the parking lots are deserted.
Gosh, we get to see the creation of a “food desert” right before our eyes!
In 2013 I traveled through Nicaragua and El Salvador and was surprised that every small business (gas stations, drug stores, etc.) had armed guards outside. We have imported lawlessness. Sad.
“.. because of an alleged “increasing amount of theft” at the store”
Safeway could close the store, reduce hours, or change them for any reason. So why would they need to fib about thefts? This author is no doubt trying to find a racist angle for the closings.
Safeway should close the store.
Sure, but then the bolsheviks will complain about a “food desert.”
Shoplifting and robbery is just one piece of the puzzle for urban retail.
In many stores employee theft is rampant.
In some cases employees work with local gangs to empty delivery trucks before the merchandise can get off the loading dock.
Local managers are often terrorized into silence or complicity.
No need to close that location. Just raise prices in the Safeway stores in the suburbs and have the suburbanites subsidize the theft. In much of the country, it’s already happening.
Someone will film it and it will be a Nat Geo special.
Long ago and far away! I lived in the Castro. It was before the gays took over. Way before the junkies took over. It was a great pulsating place for young couples on the way up working in the City. Crime there, and in the City in general, was random, rare, and unorganized. I remember the cinemas showing great foreign films. The mom and pop stores that sold a plethora of wonderful items. Strolls through the street at night. A wonderful, friendly atmosphere that is gone and will never return. Yes, as author Thomas Wolfe put it, indeed, “you can’t go home again.”
No bias in that reporting eh?
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