35 years in business, family-owned market in South Beach is closing... Co-owner David Pesusic said high operation costs and mounting neighborhood crime were driving factors.
Posted on 09/09/2024 9:47:16 AM PDT by Vendome
35 years in business, family-owned market in South Beach is closing... Co-owner David Pesusic said high operation costs and mounting neighborhood crime were driving factors.
Bayside Market, at 120 Brannan St. near the Embarcadero, will cease operations on Sept. 13. Some of its 12 employees will be transferred to RJ’s Market near Fisherman’s Wharf, the owners’ other location, but most will be laid off, Pesusic said.
In addition to inflation-fueled bills and declining foot traffic, the small grocery and deli has suffered from “rampant” crime, near-daily shoplifting and three break-ins in the past couple years, Pesusic said. He blamed city officials for the increased crime, slamming law enforcement and city leaders for being unresponsive and overly permissive.
“Our family business is going down the tubes because idiots in City Hall can’t protect us,” Pesusic told the Chronicle.
“All city hall cares about is the homeless and the fentanyl crisis, not the everyday law-abiding citizens trying to make a living,” Pesusic wrote in a statement announcing the business’s closure, which was taped to Bayside Market’s door. “To that effect, having to deal with shoplifters every day and multiple breakins has just become unbearable, especially when law enforcement doesn’t arrest and city hall doesn’t prosecute.”
Law enforcement has taken hours to respond to petty crimes at Bayside, if they respond at all, Pesusic said. During two of the three break-ins the business faced over the past two years, he said police officers took over eight hours to arrive on the scene. And the market’s employees have stopped reporting shoplifting incidents, which Pesusic said occur at least 5-6 times a week, and sometimes up to five times in one day.
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Linked Chronicle article:
"And the market’s employees have stopped reporting shoplifting incidents, which Pesusic said occur at least 5-6 times a week, and sometimes up to five times in one day."
Any lie that serves the left's agenda.
The crime stats *are* down.
However that is because:
1. Police are now refusing to respond to calls for service. Therefore no crime occurred for the stats as no report was taken.
2. DAs are refusing to prosecute crimes even if the police do arrest, soooo...
3. People are no longer bothering to report crimes. So no crime stats are reported.
4. And several cities have been found to be blatantly lying about crime stats.
SF cannot be saved. File this one in the “Dead Is Better” file.
As I keep saying, retail theft is out of control.
It’s the Bush-Barack-Biden legacy
Vastly more important to the politicians than protecting the law-abiding is ensuring that they have absolutely no way to protect themselves.
Nobody is arresting/prosecuting, let alone firing, GOVT employees for:
5) Violating the 14th’s ‘Equal of/Under the Law’
6) Fraud+ (fudging the ‘govt numba’s’)
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