Whole Foods in San Francisco Closes Due to Crime, Drugs

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Whole Foods store that opened a year ago in downtown San Francisco is closing, reportedly because of rampant crime.

"We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being," the company said in a statement Monday to the San Francisco Standard. "If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening" of the location at 8th and Market streets


A City Hall source told The Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store as a reason for its closure.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/whole-foods-crime-san-francisco/2023/04/11/id/1115736/

This is status quo for much of liberal land


Enjoy the suck idiots
 
volsrock said:
Whole Foods store that opened a year ago in downtown San Francisco is closing, reportedly because of rampant crime.

"We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being," the company said in a statement Monday to the San Francisco Standard. "If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening" of the location at 8th and Market streets.


https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/whole-foods-crime-san-francisco/2023/04/11/id/1115736/

This is status quo for much of liberal land


Enjoy the suck idiots
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Wow, there is crime somewhere? Shocking!!!!
 
These partisan political sites are so often just full of sh*t.

Take this line:

"The Standard, citing an unnamed City Hall source, said Whole Foods had cited drug use and crime near the store as reasons for the closure."


There was drug use and crime near the store last year before they chose to open it. There's been drug use and crime near this location for years. Drug use and crime outside the store isn't the reason they closed it. As the local paper reported, it was the crime and behavior in the store that was the issue. It's the same reason other grocery stores have closed or are considering closing in the City. Theft in the stores and people doing crazy sh*t in the stores, is the problem.

But Newsmax just makes us some unnamed source spouting something else.
 
cawacko said:
These partisan political sites are so often just full of sh*t.

Take this line:

"The Standard, citing an unnamed City Hall source, said Whole Foods had cited drug use and crime near the store as reasons for the closure."


There was drug use and crime near the store last year before they chose to open it. There's been drug use and crime near this location for years. Drug use and crime outside the store isn't the reason they closed it. As the local paper reported, it was the crime and behavior in the store that was the issue. It's the same reason other grocery stores have closed or are considering closing in the City. Theft in the stores and people doing crazy sh*t in the stores, is the problem.

But Newsmax just makes us some unnamed source spouting something else.
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Hey, you should be used of it, with many politicians on the right attempting to win the favor of the right wing base, cities, in particularly, San Francisco, has been the center of their demagoguery. What you see here is just a regurgitation of that trend
 
cawacko said:
These partisan political sites are so often just full of sh*t.

Take this line:

"The Standard, citing an unnamed City Hall source, said Whole Foods had cited drug use and crime near the store as reasons for the closure."


There was drug use and crime near the store last year before they chose to open it. There's been drug use and crime near this location for years. Drug use and crime outside the store isn't the reason they closed it. As the local paper reported, it was the crime and behavior in the store that was the issue. It's the same reason other grocery stores have closed or are considering closing in the City. Theft in the stores and people doing crazy sh*t in the stores, is the problem.
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Isn’t Whole Foods supposed to be high end?
Sounds like an incredibly bad business decision to open one up in a neighborhood like that. :dunno:
 
Are the "partial food" stores still open in the Bay City?
Isn't that good enough?

These threads need the posts that they deserve.
 
anonymoose said:
Isn’t Whole Foods supposed to be high end?
Sounds like an incredibly bad business decision to open one up in a neighborhood like that. :dunno:
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The thing to remember with San Francisco is the City is not all that big, it's only 49 square miles. So you have wealth and poverty living very close together. So while the area directly around this store does have a lot of street people there was still a lot of people with money living around it. And even when shopping in the high end neighborhoods, homeless people abound. So there's just no avoiding it really.
 
archives said:
Hey, you should be used of it, with many politicians on the right attempting to win the favor of the right wing base, cities, in particularly, San Francisco, has been the center of their demagoguery. What you see here is just a regurgitation of that trend
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For starters, the crime problem here is very real and it makes national news for a reason. Because it has become a proxy for national partisans doesn't take away from that.

I specifically said partisan sites, not exclusively right wing, because there are liberal sites that do the same thing Newsmax does. They give their readers the confirmation bias they want.
 
Walmart just announced that they are closing four Chicago stores....not blaming crime but it is hard to not read this as Walmart giving up on Chicago.
 
Nike closing downtown Seattle store amid crime wave
Seattle saw a 23% increase in fatal shootings in 2022

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/nike-closing-downtown-seattle-store-crime-wave


Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave

https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/walma...land-stores-as-city-faces-shoplifting-crisis/




Soft-on-crime policies blamed as Starbucks, convenience stores shutter in Democrat-run cities

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/13/starbucks-close-16-stores-retailers-hit-hard-spiki/
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Walmart just announced that they are closing four Chicago stores....not blaming crime but it is hard to not read this as Walmart giving up on Chicago.
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The 8431 S. Stewart Ave. Chicago, Il Walmart is literally what's called South Chicago. The other 3 are up around Cicero. Two looked like nice neighborhoods. Maybe people are tired of Walmart junk.
 
goat said:
The 8431 S. Stewart Ave. Chicago, Il Walmart is literally what's called South Chicago. The other 3 are up around Cicero. Two looked like nice neighborhoods. Maybe people are tired of Walmart junk.
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There is now a thread on this subject.
 
volsrock said:
Whole Foods store that opened a year ago in downtown San Francisco is closing, reportedly because of rampant crime.

"We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being," the company said in a statement Monday to the San Francisco Standard. "If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening" of the location at 8th and Market streets


A City Hall source told The Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store as a reason for its closure.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/whole-foods-crime-san-francisco/2023/04/11/id/1115736/

This is status quo for much of liberal land


Enjoy the suck idiots
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I can see why they would. About a block from Market and 8th ST in SF is a huge homeless encampment that looks like the city has allowed to be more or less permanently set up right behind a public library and across the street from city hall...
 
They did it to themselves, my sympathy tank is dry.....and understand that it only gets worse from here.
 
volsrock said:
Whole Foods store that opened a year ago in downtown San Francisco is closing, reportedly because of rampant crime.
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Whole Foods has 13 stores in San Francisco, will close one store, so will be left with 12 stores in city limits of San Francisco (with many, many more stores in the suburbs). Given that Whole Foods has 514 stores in America, and San Francisco has 0.245% of America's population, it would be expected to have only 1 store, but will have 12 stores.

The reason Whole Foods is overrepresented in San Fransisco is that San Fransisco has the highest per capita income of any American city with over 250,000 people. It has productivity off the charts. It is one of the great powerhouses of the American economy.

Which is amazing considering how small it is. It is smaller than Jacksonville Florida, but far more economically important.
 
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