Posted on 10/18/2021 12:10:48 PM PDT by Vendome
Walgreens announced Tuesday it would be closing five of its San Francisco locations due to "organized retail crime," but police department data, local officials, and policy experts are casting doubt on that reasoning, according to a report published by the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday.
While the report said the chain has experienced retail theft, other factors like the COVID-19 pandemic and oversaturation of stores were cited as potential factors behind the decision to close the stores.
However, San Francisco Police Department data obtained by the Chronicle contradicts Walgreens' claims, with one of the stores slated to close reporting only 23 shoplifting incidents since 2018. Some incidents of shoplifting likely go unreported, but the closing stores had on average less than two shoplifting reports per month since 2018.
"Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that," Caruso told SFGate. "During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment."
San Francisco Mayor London Breed pushed back against Walgreens' stated reasoning for closing the stores.
"They are saying (shoplifting is) the primary reason, but I also think when a place is not generating revenue, and when they're saturated - SF has a lot of Walgreens locations all over the city - so I do think that there are other factors that come into play," she told reporters last week.
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Facts are stubborn things. I believe Walgreen.
Oh my. The liberals investigated and found out that they weren’t at fault.
No grocery in their right mind opens a shop in San Francisco.
I remember the the scum media used the term ,”food deserts” to cry racism. When in reality, the locals shoplifted and robbed the places until they closed down.
They left out “Trump’s Fault” and Global Warming.
“Women and Minorities hardest hit”
Walgreen should have just said they were closing the stores due to Climate Change. That would have satisfied everyone. Plus they might have gotten a government grant out of it.
Definition of Misdemeanor
Noun
A criminal offense less serious than a felony.
A minor crime punishable by a fine or short jail time.
And when you have your "customers" stealing you blind, conducting a profitable business becomes impossible.
This is why San Francisco can't have nice things.
Dean Preston, supervisor of San Francisco’s 5th district, which will be impacted by a store closure, said the pharmacy chain is “abandoning the community” and has “long planned to close stores,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Supervisor Dean Preston
is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5. He is the first Democratic Socialist elected to the SF Board of Supervisors in over 40 years.
Worker’s paradise not necessarily a business paradise
Dean Preston, supervisor of San Francisco’s 5th district, which will be impacted by a store closure, said the pharmacy chain is “abandoning the community” and has “long planned to close stores,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Supervisor Dean Preston
is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5. He is the first Democratic Socialist elected to the SF Board of Supervisors in over 40 years.
Worker’s paradise not necessarily a business paradise
but, but, AOC and her ilk believe they’re entitled to the stuff.
Only 23 incidents reported. Since the police now do nothing with these reports, the stores do not bother to report them. I guess to liberals, if a crime is not reported to police, it never happened.
Exactly...why would a store report shoplifting in California? Nothing will be done about it.
They used to say about the Soviet Union: "never believe something until the government has officially denied it."
Now its true in the USA too
Local officials: If a store can’t survive having thousands of dollars worth of merchandise stolen in broad daylight well, frankly, we don’t need them here.
The old model of customers ordering their purchases, and having them brought to the counter may work. For those who need things immediately. But that really cuts down on impulse buys.
This sounds like when an abused wife finally leaves. The abuser always stands around and says “I can’t believe she left me”.
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