Posted on 05/26/2023 5:11:47 PM PDT by Twotone
Nordstroms is preparing to cut nearly 400 jobs as the high-end retail giant makes its exit out of San Francisco due to rising crime that has desecrated the Golden City at the hands of failed progressive policies.
Official filings show that 379 employees will be losing their jobs between Nordstroms two locations inside the Westfield San Francisco Center shopping mall and on Market Street, Mercury News reports.
333 employees will be axed from Nordstroms main department store, while 46 workers will be laid off at the Nordstrom Rack, according to the WARN notice the company sent to the California Employment Development Department.
The Nordstrom Rack on Market Street will be closing on July 1, while the Nordstrom mall location will shutter its doors at the end of August, Washington Post reports.
Earlier this month, Nordstrom announced that they will be closing both of its stores in downtown San Francisco in the coming months, due to the changing "dynamics" of the downtown market as the region continues to be plagued by retail thefts.
The closures are downtown San Francisco specific as the retail giant recently announced the opening of five new Rack stores in California, including some near the Bay Area.
Chief Stores Officer Jamie Nordstrom announced the store closures in an email sent to employees stating that the retail giant can no longer "operate successfully" in downtown San Francisco.
"We’ve spent more than 35 years serving customers in downtown San Francisco, building relationships with them, and investing in the local community. But as many of you know, 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," Jamie Nordstrom said.
The stores represent about 357,500 square feet of retail space.
According to WARN notices sent to the state Employment Development Department and obtained by Mercury News, Nordstroms is still debating on whether or not employees will be able to transfer to other locations, and who will be granted that opportunity.
"We have not yet determined who will be offered these opportunities," Nordstrom's human resources director Meghan Hanes said in the notice.
Following Nordstrom's announcement that they would be closing the two locations, Unibail Rodamco-Westfield, the owner of the Westfield Mall, told the San Francisco Standard that the closures "underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco."
A spokesperson for the mall added, "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.” In recent months, Nordstroms, WholeFoods, and T-Mobile all have announced their departures, citing rampant retail theft, violence from homeless vagrants, and loss of foot traffic as residents refuse to shop in the once-beloved city.
According to The Standard, 20 retailers have closed stores or announced closures in the Union Square area since 2020. Saks OFF 5th is also planning to close a location on the same block as Nordstrom Rack this year.
The owner of Westfield Mall said that he "has actively engaged with city leaders for many years to express our serious concerns, which are shared by our customers and retailers" adding, "We have urged the city to find solutions to the key issues and lack of enforcement again."
Just in time for Pride month too. :-D
On the plus side, the abandoned retail space could be used to house illegal immigrants. Funny how things work out like that.
I hate to see people lose their jobs, but in San Francisco, there’s a good chance a lot of these employees voted Democrat, and therefore voted for the high crime rate which has led to the demise of their jobs.
Would the media help Biden if it was ‘79 under Carter?
Ah, I remember shopping at the downtown SF Nordstroms back in the day. Helpful and respectful staff, great selection of suits and accouterments. That was 50 years ago or so. The city was a very different place then.
“Good chance a lot...”
Are you kidding? In SF?
An ordinary Democrat would be considered borderline Facist. If you even BREATHED a word of discontent with the Leftist junta running the city you would swiftly be ostracized and run out of the store within a week.
When will it close its Seattle store?
There is nowhere to run too.
The entire country will be San Francisco soon. Soros’ DAs will see to it.
Elsewhere they said Old Navy was leaving, too.
The Gap owns them and also the Banana Republic store chain.
Funny when the Left actually achieves their workers’ paradise anti-American banana republic where the previous leader Trump gets targeted by several court battles, the Banana Republic company’s fellow stores get up and leave town.
Go figure.
Right. We need not have sympathy for Dems-—they will NEVER have sympathy for our side.
Employees got what they votes for. No sympathy.
Raised by her grandmother in Plaza East public housing.
Her younger sister died of a drug overdose in 2006.
Her brother, Napoleon Brown, is in prison serving a 44-year sentence for a 2000 manslaughter and armed robbery conviction, for which Breed has repeatedly asked for clemency from the governor's office....for the good of society she said.
November 2022, Breed launched a program to 'provide income' for low income 'transgender' individuals.
Wait till these spear chuckers and their homies start expanding out into the subs to do their deeds.
Lets see if all those fine nazicRAT women who infest some of those places get a taste of having to wear iron pants when they go to the store.
—”I hate to see people lose their jobs, but in San Francisco, there’s a good chance a lot of these employees voted Democrat, and therefore voted for the high crime rate which has led to the demise of their jobs.”
Have you ever had to tell someone that their job was over?
Someone that has been a good employee for years?
Against policy, I always let it be known that the company had some problems and change was coming, and might be a good time to shop around for a new position.
About a week prior I straight up tell them.
Much less drama when the day arrives.
It can be worse.
I had a guy that was “given” to me by a friend.
The friend had sheltered this worker as his personal assistant for many years. Out of the blue, his wife left him, he was crushed and took a transfer to a far-off state.
The personal assistant was a good person, but not all there.
I used him as much as I could find something for him for as long as possible.
He was very well paid for the position nearly 75K, and would never find anything close.
I still feel bad about that one.
Not always bad, once a friend/worker of many years knew Joe was going and asked if he could take his place!
Joe was a young guy with two kids at home and no wife.
My friend was about a year from retirement and said he had never been unemployed, so why not collect some?
That was easy but very unusual.
“On the plus side, the abandoned retail space could be used to house illegal immigrants. Funny how things work out like that”
No doubt the illegals will have first dibs over down on their luck Americans.
Holy crap. I was ready to see needles. But not that many needles in such a small space.
Note to self: Do not think about visiting San Francisco. In fact, do not even look for San Francisco on a map.
I don’t think the Seattle store will close anytime soon.
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