Posted on 04/12/2023 6:46:20 AM PDT by 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.
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How do you know how they voted?
A lot of conservatives work and shop at Whole Foods.
My beef is with the far left local government who destroyed this once great city.
As a result, Costco stores are safe inside.
Photo looks like it could be a modern day Rockwell painting.
Everything from baby food, formula, booze is locked up you know the store has a theft problem
John & Ken were just discussing this a couple of days ago (radio hosts in Los Angeles).
One of the big court decisions was to end involuntary mental health confinement - IOW, the mentally ill, including psychotic, could check themselves out of institutions - institutions which have now been closed - there were supposed to be half-way houses to help this population but they were never built.
That's how they ended up on the streets in California - thousands upon thousands of them raving and ranting, some violent. Any meds that are prescribed are not taken and/or sold.
Confining psychotic mentally ill was considered at that time to be "cruel and unusual punishment" and deemed illegal. Families of mentally ill were bitterly complaining that their loved ones refused to be confined in state or any other facility that they could find and would check themselves out - only to return to the filthy, violent streets. Most had give up after years of trying to help their loved ones.
It's a very sad situation. Very sad.
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