San Francisco: A string of drug stores close
after shoplifters strip the shelves bare
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/24/2020 4:21:22 AM
You’ll be shocked to learn there are some serious problems in San Francisco with petty crime. This week the San Francisco Chronicle reported on the seventh Walgreens drug store to announce it is closing in the city since last year. The problem is a wave of shoplifting from retail locations that can add up to millions of dollars in lost merchandise: The drugstore, which serves many older people who live in the Opera Plaza area, is the seventh Walgreens to close in the city since 2019.
“All of us knew it was coming. Whenever we go in there, they always have problems with shoplifters, ” said longtime customer Sebastian Luke,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 10/24/2020 4:31:59 AM (No. 582382)
This is the new norm for democrat cities.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 10/24/2020 4:58:00 AM (No. 582391)
San Francisco: the new Detroit.
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Was in Detroit two years ago for a conference downtown. The Walgreens down the street had a police substation located in it...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
judy 10/24/2020 5:24:09 AM (No. 582400)
Coming to a city near you....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 10/24/2020 6:24:48 AM (No. 582409)
They forgot to pick up their voter registration cards on the way out so as to continue this great way of life.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 10/24/2020 7:06:12 AM (No. 582441)
Ooohhh, I am so shocked.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 10/24/2020 7:19:02 AM (No. 582454)
Is it really "Petty Crime' when a couple of hundred people each steal a couple of hundred dollars worth of merchandise? While each individual might be charged with petty theft the entire gang is guilty of a "Grand Theft" level felony, and should be charged as such.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/24/2020 7:38:20 AM (No. 582463)
Now San Franciscans will be complaining about "drugstore deserts."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 10/24/2020 8:41:43 AM (No. 582524)
Good one, Poster 8. “Pharmacies abandon inner city, poor, minorities and elderly hit hardest.”
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 10/24/2020 8:51:58 AM (No. 582535)
And this is the reason these neighborhoods become what the dems love to call "food desserts". When more goods are stolen then paid for it's a bit hard to remain in business. My son and I were in a different part of town for some business. We noticed a Dollar Tree and thought we would stop in just to have a look see. Might find something that is not offered at the store we usually shop at. There was a security guard at the front door (about a dozen young black men hanging around the door), a security guard walking the floor and one posted at the registers. Three security guards at a Dollar Tree. That tells you something right there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bazi 10/24/2020 9:04:31 AM (No. 582545)
Employees. What employees? The "safe" employees don't have jobs anymore. Liberals are mentally ill🥴.... it can't be said enough.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 10/24/2020 9:27:10 AM (No. 582566)
I was in LA during the Rodney King riots. Those looted and burned businesses did not reopen. Lost jobs, lost retail establishments and the creation of food deserts. Example #87687651 of "democrats" not grasping the fundamentals of unintended consequences.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 10/24/2020 9:48:47 AM (No. 582591)
This has been going on for years. All of the cities that are run by democRATS have the same attitude about crime. Just let 'em go and do nothing and the criminals will keep voting for us. Look at NYC. The democRATS have turned it into a ghost town. Part of my family are members of the NYPD. I have learned this through them, no one visits anymore because of the conid policies and crime rates that the dimocRAT mayor allows to happen. If sleepy Joe is elected this will happen throughout the entire country. If you think it's bad now, just wait. Trump 2020
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Grateful 10/24/2020 10:13:01 AM (No. 582611)
The thieves are operating in Nancy Pelosi's district. What is Nan doing about it? Sitting back and eating more of her premium, high cost ice cream.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/24/2020 10:48:57 AM (No. 582656)
When you give shoplifters a $1000 a day bag limit, you can expect shoplifting. The Walgreens and all other retail stores should have closed down when that insane law was passed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/24/2020 11:02:10 AM (No. 582677)
Am a customer of both of the drug store chains mentioned. Even before the pandemic began I do all my shopping at drug stores online. I live in the Atlanta, GA area and was motivated to go online because of what happened in the parking lot of one of these stores. A woman parked in the middle of the day to shop at one of these stores. She was only in the store for half a hour or less. While she was inside her car windows were smashed, her car ransacked and looted. And when the police were called she was informed that breaking into a car is a misdemeanor and, due to manpower (whoops personpower) shortage, the police won't respond to anything but a felony. They send you a form for your insurance. And if you file a bunch of claims either your rates will sky rocket or your policy will be canceled. So the future is online shopping.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hershey 10/24/2020 11:06:58 AM (No. 582683)
Shoplifting is a petty crime? What about littering the streets with empty syringes, defecating in store aisles and on the street, peeing in the same location, attacking innocent people, rioting, burning, looting?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/24/2020 11:22:59 AM (No. 582705)
The old song that said ''I left my heart in San Francisco...'' should be updated to ''I left my feces in San Francisco...''
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Californian 10/24/2020 11:24:17 AM (No. 582707)
17, here in SF we just call those things a "lifestyle choice".
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 10/24/2020 12:08:27 PM (No. 582747)
When the police can't and won't stop the thieves, the only reasonable thing for a business is to move away from the location convenient to the thieves. Then the thieves will complain about 'lack of shopping opportunities'.
Act like barbarian, nobody wants you around.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/24/2020 12:13:41 PM (No. 582757)
All the blame for this behavior lies with the voters in CA. Search Proposition 47, passed by voters in 2016. Any property crime less than $950 is considered a misdemeanor. Since it's passage, property crime has soared all over the state, especially in big cities. As of 2019, there were an avg of 82 auto brake ins per day in San Francisco. Police do not respond to auto break ins. Teams of people routinely scour SF smashing windows and stealing anything not locked down, in full view of passers by with no consequences. Stupidity is always on the ballot in CA...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Historybuff 10/24/2020 1:20:17 PM (No. 582816)
This wouldn't be a problem if they would repeal the law of unintended consequences!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/24/2020 2:21:12 PM (No. 582851)
Right now, what all businesses in the big Democrat run cities that are victims of uncontrolled shoplifting can do is close their retail locations and move away.
That is now, but if Biden is elected and the Democrat socialists take over, businesses closing up because of uncontrolled shoplifting losses may not be able to close anymore, as the Democrat socialists will demand that the corporations owning those retail locations keep them open, especially in low income or minority communities, or they will bankrupt those corporations by way of administrative government action and law suits filed before activist liberal judges and courts. It would be a different America indeed.
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I have no sympathy for Walgreens (or CVS or Target). A few months ago they sent out an email announcing they were donating millions to BLM and rebuilding stores that had been looted and robbed. I called them and said "If all lives don't matter, then I can't shop there. Who do you think pays for prescriptions in your stores ?" Then all the looting happened in Chicago 'again'.
Years back they got in legal trouble because they sold customer's prescription information that came to light when the customers were contacted. Recently, I started getting Medicare information in spanish. I think they sold customer lists from rewards cards.
Always remember "People do what you let them"
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