Posted on 05/03/2023 12:01:36 AM PDT by grundle
Nordstrom will close both of its San Francisco stores amid rampant crime making it dangerous and difficult to do business in the city.
One location is in the Westfield mall, which will close at the end of August, and another is a Nordstrom Rack downtown, which will close on July 1, the San Francisco Standard reported.
The company’s chief stores officer notified employees in an email that “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.”
Crime and homelessness concerns were not cited as the precipitating factors, but they have been afflicting San Francisco for many months. The owner of the Westfield mall, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, told the publication that the department store’s exit from the city “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.”
“A growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area,” he said.
Rodamco-Westfield added that he had been pleading with local leaders for years to crackdown on the lawlessness, which has been stifling commerce and making it unsafe for tourism.
While Nordstrom is withdrawing from San Francisco, it is expanding into other cities across the state, opening five new Nordstrom Rack stores, the statement noted.
A spokesperson for Mayor London Breed’s office said the city has implemented a number of public-safety measures, such as to station two police officers inside the Westfield Mall as well as community ambassadors in the neighborhood.
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Newsom’s major achievement as mayor was to turn SF into a third world sh*thole. Now he’s doing the same to the entire state, and wants to be POTUS to destroy America.
Just remember who ELECTED him. California needs to be towed out to sea and sunk by gunfire.
When the inner city stores all shut down, there will be fewer and fewer to loot from.
When they start moving to the suburbs, in gangs, is when the CW2 moves from being a cold war.
I would agree...SF downtown for business/grocery operations, will be dead within three years. Suburbs next, then by 2030...onto towns 30 to 50 miles away. I could see a case by 2035, where if you lived in SF (even suburbs)...you’d have to pre-order your groceries from some locked-up warehouse (30 miles away) and have it delivered to your home.
I don’t think the majority of people will accept this lifestyle, and continual threats....just saying ‘enough’ and exit the state.
And ALL these people will STILL VOTE for DEMONRATS!! ISIOTS! EVIL PSTUPID IDIOTS!
“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.”
Thats a whole lotta words just to say SF is now a shit hole
Democrats bombed the Nordstrom’s pipeline, but then deny it.
I think at some point it will be too much and the voters will finally through the idiots out on their asses.
This has already been occurring since 2020 on some scale, it’s just completely suppressed by the media.
Great news! More downtown space to house the homeless.
Thieves and The Homeless rarely “shop” at Nordstrom.
San Francisco is doomed. Westfield Center is the destination shopping center in the city.
LoL
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