Posted on 05/10/2023 7:26:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last month, Whole Foods shut down a year-old flagship store it had opened in downtown San Francisco. Two weeks later, word broke that Nordstrom, the Seattle-based, high-end retailer that had a major presence in downtown San Francisco was shutting down both its Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores. Today, news broke that T-Mobile is pulling out, too. It’s a retail exodus that is obviously bad for San Francisco. Significantly, it turns out that other Bay Area downtowns are imploding, as well.
The Whole Foods store shut down because the crime plaguing it was unsustainable, in terms of profits and worker safety. The same held true for the Nordstrom pullout:
“We’ve spent more than 35 years serving customers in downtown San Francisco, building relationships with them and investing in the local community,” Nordstrom told impacted employees.
“But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of the Westfield Mall where one of the Nordstrom stores is closing, slammed the current conditions in the city and said retailers are leaving in droves because of unsafe conditions that have dragged on, despite the company pleading with city officials to take action.
The latest major retailer to join the downtown San Francisco exodus is T-Mobile, which had a 17,000-square-foot store in Union Square, the heart of downtown San Francisco’s hotel and real estate district. T-Mobile hasn’t said why it decided to close the store, other than a “reshaped…retail strategy,” but it’s easy to guess that crime played a part.
After all, to stay afloat in San Francisco, a Target store had to put everything behind glass:
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That’s a shame...
From Wikiquote:
I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that. I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation ls today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.
From Joe Farley (13 September 1975), An Interview With Joe Biden
I am philosophically opposed to quota-systems; they insure mediocrity. The new integration plans being offered are really just quota-systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school. That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with; what it says is, “in order for your child, with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.” That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child? The point is that if we look beyond the “old” left to the “New Left,” almost all the new liberal leaders and civil rights leaders oppose busing.
Farley, Joe (September 20-26, 1975). An Interview with Senator Joseph R. Biden.
These were al-Qaeda fighters, the first I’d ever seen up close, and they looked like badasses. As I passed on the outskirts of the grid, many of the prisoners stared directly at me. None of them cowered. I’ve been in a lot of prisons, but these guys showed a ferocity and a hatred unlike any I’d ever seen.
An unrelenting stream of immigration.
Non stop, nonstop.
Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we’ll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority.
Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock. That’s not a bad thing. That’s a source of our strength.
17 February 2015 during Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
the Internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost, and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced — that’s the word, “replaced” — by the “other” — by people who don’t look like them
For too long, our government, our courts haven’t looked like America
Make sure of two things. Be careful — microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
Let me be crystal clear: The United States does not, will not, never will recognize Russia’s attempt to annex the Crimea.
Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to The Ukrainian Rada (9 December 2015).
After CA legalized criminal behavior who didn’t see this coming? Not to mention, all those homeless addicts are getting a subsistence check. The fall of SF is totally a self inflicted wound.
Excellent point.
Still awaiting that anticipated 9.5 to finish the job.
It’s amazing that the mayor and governor are just watching the destruction of a city... like a pyro-maniac watching a building burn.
“Perhaps someday nature will retake the city and tribesmen will roam the crumbling infrastructure.”
How about happening right now.
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