Posted on 04/30/2024 9:25:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“...steal $949 of merchandise from every last store in sight...”
Not much longer. The stores that actually stock reasonable quality inventories are bailing out of San Francisco at an alarming rate. Pretty soon the thugs will have to leave and find better stores in other cities to break even. Maybe they ought to unionize. I’m sure the AFL-CIO would love them if they can get them away from the UFW.
wy69
“...steal $949 of merchandise from every last store in sight...”
Not much longer. The stores that actually stock reasonable quality inventories are bailing out of San Francisco at an alarming rate. Pretty soon the thugs will have to leave and find better stores in other cities to break even. Maybe they ought to unionize. I’m sure the AFL-CIO would love them if they can get them away from the UFW.
wy69
It is a California=wide law
allowing the stealing all over the state
(there are proposals to modify it.... but right now it is the state law out there)
if you visit the stores that are still open, it can be rather interesting. They’ve been locking up merchandise by installing big new see-through locked storage shelves. You have to call a store clerk for assistance to purchase a tube of tooth paste. Unfortunately, many of those stores operate on very lean staffing business models. You can usually NOT find a clerk anywhere on the sales floor. And the cashiers (who have not yet been replaced by self-checkout machines***) are busy or just won’t bother helping you. Thus, the merchandise mostly stays securely locked up and the customers leave mostly empty, without much of the stuff they would have normally purchased. Prediction: as sales volume drops, these stores will close, too.
*** footnote about those self-checkout machines: the rate of theft has gone up a lot as customers with 10 items of merchandise in their carts may only wave 5 of them at the scanners. Another problem for the merchants, caused by the very sale issue of thieving
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