Just how gross was it at that San Francisco Whole Foods? Customers weigh in online with their experiences at the now-shuttered Whole Foods flagship store in that bum-infested city

American Thinker ^ | 04/12/2023 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

Whole Foods on Monday shut down its ritzy new flagship store in San Francisco, after just a year in operation, citing crime and safety concerns.

I wrote about that astonishing event yesterday, brought on by the city's failure to enforce its own laws, noting that the company had a good customer base and had shelled out big to make the place attractive, but that was no match for the chaos the one-party government had allowed the area to fall into. Whole Foods may have had a punchbowl for themselves and its customers, but with the city's coddling of bums and criminals, someone dropped a deuce in it.

In this case, seems that was literally. The story seems to have set San Francisco's locals buzzing on the internet, with person after person giving his story about what he saw in that place as it happened.

I curated a few doozies describing how bad it was:

 

Whole Foods San Francisco at SOMA 4th St. This is what employees have to deal with daily in S.F. People high on drugs, in psychosis. Suspect ate lot of fruit in store, his basket was full of orange/banana/tangerine peels. Look at security, hiding behind that brave woman employee


pic.twitter.com/FU25XYhWcU — Old Fashioned SF (@powellmarket415) April 11, 2023

This picture appears to be from the Whole Foods nearest to the Whole Foods that was shuttered, slightly up the road at Powell and Market. The point is clear, though.

From local publication SFist:

The block of Market Street between Seventh and Eighth streets has been notably more chaotic since the pandemic, with a crowds typically congregating closer to the Seventh Street end, and plenty of open-air drug use and dealing going on.

[Bonemaker]

Walmart just announced it’s pulling 4 Chicago stores out.😀

[DugwayDuke]

I suspect that this has a lot to do with the businesses coddling the homeless. I’m sure there are ‘homeless advocacy groups’ doing the same thing:

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[Pox]

“Pot sellers” are not illegal here.

Perhaps you could reference the real problem, meth dealers, heroin dealers, and opioid dealers.

Marijuana has zero to do with the homeless bums in this state.

[Chickensoup]

what annual membership?

Evidently the WF had people pooping into their food offerings

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Interesting. My MD is Nigerian, Yes, a black guy. Best doc ever. Good Christian, too. He’s more than a doctor, we’ve become friends.

The Surgeon General of Florida ( and one of the best in the USA ) is Dr. Joseph Ladapo, born in Nigeria. He just recently made the news by saving the life of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart attack.

See here:

https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/florida-surgeon-general-helps-save-the-life-of-man-suffering-from-heart-attack/

[nicollo]

Oh, well, the bums will just have to go back to the public library...

[Newtoidaho]

Residents of San Fran Freakshow are shocked, SHOCKED I say, to be getting more of what they voted for and continue to vote for.

[Veto!]

Interesting. What a great man and an example for Black kids.

I’ve heard that a certain tribe in Nigeria has very high IQs. Ibo or Igbo, I think from southern part of the country near Cameroon. My doc is one of them.

[OrioleFan]

And Gavin Newsom thinks Americans are that stupid?

Unfortunately, there are a lot of Liberals/Socialists who vote Democrap in this country. How the H does Biden still get 40% in the polls (even with all the media shenanigans in the polling)?

[pburiak]

Had an accounting prof in college that was a Nigerian immigrant. Spoke the Queen’s English, wore a suit to class every day, was a pleasant and genial guy but a no-nonsense instructor.

A couple of black “student-athletes” in the class probably thought a “brother” would cut them some slack, they were sorely disappointed when he didn’t.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And, on their wall, in a 12 x 12 foot poster, is the enviro’s “Estuary” cries for even MORE fresh water to be flushed out to sea. To (theoretically) “save” an invasive specie of fish that can’t live in the naturally brackish water every summer in the Sacramento River and Upper Bay.

[Albion Wilde]

they are free to shoplift whatever they want anywhere, anytime, shoot up and toss the needles anywhere, assault and even kill passersby - and use the public sidewalks as toilets.

When those of us who received an actual education back in the day would read the stories of Charles Dickens, with his many references to the poor laboring in squalor in London workhouses, we just couldn't imagine how a Christian society could act so cruelly. But now we can see why.

[cyclotic]

That’s typical of most Africans I’ve met. They don’t have the pathologies of the American born blacks of African descent.

I used to work with a guy who immigrated from Nigeria when he was nine. He was a very good hard working young man.

[Jeff Chandler]

Companies...including big ones...should make it perfectly clear that if a jurisdiction elects a Soros puppet as DA they’re gonna pull out.

Corporations who make statements contrary to the Official Narrative™ are set upon by the Deep State💩 bureaucrats.

[OSHA]

I actually feel bad for Whole Foods and the employees who suffered to work there. They tried to provide a nice store for the community but the city of San Francisco allowed homeless bums like this to camp in the streets outside and overrun the store like cockroaches.

I have zero sympathy for them. They got exactly what they voted for.

[sarge83]

My nephew was in pharmacy college and had a class that a bunch of blacks were trying to highjack and get easy grades simply because they were black, poor and deserved the grades without the work. They threw the race card, disrupted class and filed complaints about the professor. This was a reputable university in the pharmacy field.

Finally one day a white female student said hey would you stop this continuous interruption of the class I have to have this to graduate and I’m paying for it. A black female said I don’t care if you are or not. To which the white student said aren’t you not upset you are wasting your money for this class? The black female said, I’m not paying for any of this, it’s free and I’m poor so be quite!

A male from Thailand was in the class and was friends with my nephew and had watched all this and heard this exchange and he spoke up and said to the black student: did you have a place to live growing up? Yes. Did you have head and AC? Yes. Did you have running water and a bathroom? Yes. Did you have food to eat when you wanted it? Yes. Did you have clothes to wear and a school to go too? Yes came the reply from her with attitude!

He said they you need to STFU because you don’t know sh*t about being poor! Then proceeded to tell how he slept in an open hut, no heat of AC, no bathrooms, the want for food daily, the want for clean water and not even clothes to wear many years of his youth. And that you all don’t know real poverty and stop making excuses, just do the work, drop the class or STFU! That sort of ended the attempt to take over this class by the blacks in it.