Posted on 05/11/2023 7:06:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Another major retailer is leaving downtown San Francisco — this time Coco Republic, an Australian furniture store that is leaving the iconic Union Square less than a year after opening a flagship location there.
The ongoing retail exodus from San Francisco follows years of worsening crime, drugs, and homelessness, plus a wave of “mass looting” events that have caused many other retail stores and chains to leave the city.
Other reasons include a decline in foot traffic in downtown San Francisco as a result of pandemic restrictions that caused many workers to shift to work-from-home, and many residents to relocate outside of the city.
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My only question is what made them think to open it one year ago? SF was an open urinal in 1999, it has become much worse in the time since.
How much longer til they start razing all the blighted buildings. or will the city just turn them over to the homeless?
They must have management like Anheuser Busch?
The San Francisco flower children plan on giving every African in town 5 million bucks but they’re going to have to go somewhere else to spend it. Now that’s what I call “gun violence.” LOL. Buffoons.
they will drive to Beverly Hills!
Probably a better than an even chance of that.
Property tax breaks?
Great questions, just goes to prove corporations have “senior mgmt” specifically CEOs who are completely useless, because CEOs stop doing what they did to become CEOs when they get to the top. Why rock the boat. You have already made it so you listen to all your college educated expert subordinates tell you what to do. Ceos become the biggest yes men out there. Case in point, why is the CEO of AB still there? If he isn’t responsible for the actions of his subordinates, then who is? Some college educated geniuses who got laid, banged, drunk and screwed every night for 4 years in college, but never had a real job told the CEO of this company that SF was a great place to put a store. Cause the idiot kid went to the right school and every CEO wants to be in the in crowd they put a store there and the rest is yet another case study that will never make it into the case studies of management in the ivy leagues.
Detroit, another example, of post Stage 5 Democrat Management would be the best example.
Perhaps Camden, NJ being another example.
They persist as cancerous sores.
“My only question is what made them think to open it one year ago? SF was an open urinal in 1999, it has become much worse in the time since.”
You’d be surprised, or maybe not, how many people from Asia and Europe still think that places like SF, LA and NYC are good places to do business and visit.
Why pay the blacks? I thought California was jacked from the Mexicans. Don’t they deserve reparations?.. No, no, wait,,,, didn’t the indigenous live there first? Isn’t it their land that got jacked by the Mexicans?
Sooooo, what is it that makes these blacks superior by placing them to the front of the bull crap free money farce?
Cuzz the black supremacists demanded it?
Why can’t these afri-can`t Americans wind an alarm clock and get up in the morning and go to work like every other man??
Good question bro
There is NO foot traffic in downtown SF., except for people going to the dentist. Too much redundancy anyway. How many Crate and Barrel/Pottery Barn type stores can survive today?
They need a minimum of $200 billion to cover the pay off to blacks.
Ex-brother in law owns 2 apartment buildings in SF, he now has only 1 tenant in one and 3 in the other. The only thing that saves him are his guitar music record sales.
Also, San Francisco’s reputation still vastly exceeds its reality. Most foreign companies would still jump at the chance to open in a “world class” city like San Francisco, but they soon learn that actually means Calcutta class sanitation and Lagos class crime. :)
Gavin Newsome’s Legacy!!! Coming soon to a State near you.
The retailers are all getting out of Union Square - but SF remains the financial center of the West Coast. Until the companies in the financial district also start fleeing, SF city officials will continue to tell themselves it’s all good.
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