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Whole Foods to close San Francisco flagship store a year after opening
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 10, 2023 | Susana Guerrero

Posted on 04/10/2023 6:39:07 PM PDT by artichokegrower

After a short stint in downtown San Francisco, the Whole Foods at 1185 Market St. is closing this week

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; crime; dystopia; sanfrancisco; wholefoods
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Soon there won’t be any markets at all on Market street. Any legal markets, that is.


21 posted on 04/10/2023 7:02:41 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: artichokegrower

Aw shucks, now where else are addicts supposed to filch their health food?


22 posted on 04/10/2023 7:02:47 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: BrexitBen
...a drug den for the homeless and illegals.

Well, isn't that the entire town already?

23 posted on 04/10/2023 7:03:57 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Reno89519

RE: The company could not keep employees safe to/from and at work.

I know you’re right but I honestly question if the owners care. They are out for profit in a woke, Marxist country. Like Disney and the others.


24 posted on 04/10/2023 7:04:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: americas.best.days...

25 posted on 04/10/2023 7:05:09 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: artichokegrower

I thought these liberal douchebags were only eating bugs anyway.


26 posted on 04/10/2023 7:06:51 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Yeah, for those crazy knuckleheads...


27 posted on 04/10/2023 7:11:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

It wasn’t so much the theft, as that the shoplifters wanted to bring it back. “Sorry, all thefts are final.”


28 posted on 04/10/2023 7:11:25 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: artichokegrower

“Grand opening! Grand closing!” — Chris Rock


29 posted on 04/10/2023 7:18:17 PM PDT by twister881
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To: artichokegrower

There are similar closures in other cities. Democrats can’t do the basics to survive.


30 posted on 04/10/2023 7:22:20 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: artichokegrower

The shoplifting and/or vandalism must have been horrible to make them shut everything down after one year.
It’s a very involved and expensive operation for a major retailer to open a new store to their specifications.

Whole Foods can be quite particular about how the store functions are laid out. They feature organic produce, you see, therefore they think they’re better than all the other grocers.


31 posted on 04/10/2023 7:24:15 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ConservativeInPA

It will be interesting watching Dems try to “survive” in the coming years...me thinks this is only the beginning


32 posted on 04/10/2023 7:25:46 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: irishjuggler
Had to use the restroom. Multiple homeless were in there bathing with the sinks.

Yikes! Back in the 1980's, there was a beautiful fountain in the civic park in front of City Hall, a couple blocks away from where Whole Foods is today. Until vagrants started bathing in it. The fountain was removed and filled in, and public bathrooms were closed in the park. In the 1990's the vagrants bathed in U.N. Plaza fountains across from where Whole Foods is today. Naked in full view of buses passing by, and the vagrants would take a dump at the curb on Market Street and wipe with newspapers. Even Jack-In-the-Box closed down nearby and left. So idiots in Whole Foods management decided "This is the place for us to build!". There is a tent city across the street of homeless, and lots of drug dealing. Built it in a great spot (not).

33 posted on 04/10/2023 7:26:56 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: artichokegrower

Insert “sad trombone sound” here.


34 posted on 04/10/2023 7:31:42 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

“”I thought midnight basketball was the solution to this kind of thing””

Perfect. Let’s get a massive grant from the Obama / Biden Regime for 217 basketball hoops and backboards. Place them all throughout the building. Invite the homeless, the mentally ill, the downtrodden. Come one, come all to the cure for what ailes you. The San Francisco Homeless Industrial Complex did not just house bums in hotels during Covid. They actually DELIVERED alcohol and drugs to their rooms. The former store could be the mecca for every Social Worker and drug dealer in SF. If anyone actually picks up a ball and dribbles, rolls, or throws a ball, they will qualify for extra helpings of drugs and alcohol. Soon, other leftist creepozoid cities can model their services after SF.


35 posted on 04/10/2023 7:34:08 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: roadcat

Yes I’ve worked in the federal building at UN Plaza for 25 yrs. Was very surprised when that Whole Foods opened. Not surprised at all that it didn’t last even a year.


36 posted on 04/10/2023 7:45:30 PM PDT by olivia3boys (t )
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!


37 posted on 04/10/2023 7:51:34 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: olivia3boys

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38 posted on 04/10/2023 7:53:13 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Mr. Jeeves
What genius thought it was a good idea to put a high-end grocery store at 8th and Market?

I think that's the real question.

39 posted on 04/10/2023 7:54:16 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Is Twitter across the street that might’ve been an influence.


40 posted on 04/10/2023 8:00:36 PM PDT by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”? )
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