Corporate pharmacy titan Walgreens has reportedly had enough of San Francisco’s continued crime wave.
The company has now decided to five stores due to what it describes as organized retail theft.
As The Hill reports:
The retailer made the announcement on Tuesday, saying five stores will close next month, SFGATE reported.
“Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average,” Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso told the news outlet, noting that theft has increased despite increased security.
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Walgreens has reportedly closed nearly 10 stores in San Francisco since 2019. The drug store chain closed one location in the city last year that lost nearly $1,000 a day to theft.
Widely circulated video and images of shoplifting has highlighted the problem, according to The Associated Press.
ICE CREAM CONSTANT THEFT: Here at Walgreens in San Francisco Richmond District, homeless steal ice cream from freezer shelves, cleaning them out right after every store restock delivery. I recorded this today Sun Sept 26, 2021. pic.twitter.com/KvgzMcBLGU
— Richie Greenberg (@richieSF2016) September 26, 2021
Cell phone video taken inside a #SanFrancisco Walgreens shows a man packing a garbage bag full of items while multiple people, including security filmed from feet away. Video shows him riding right past them on his bike down the aisle and out the door. https://t.co/llBFeD1cjp pic.twitter.com/9BwSHuTVII
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) June 15, 2021
In addition to the scourge of constant robbery and shoplifting the Bay Area saw a massive surge in murders in 2020.
Biden , Pelosi, and Newsom . Great job and the rest of the stupid democrats putting up statues of criminals and calling for the ,” Defend the police”. I have an old piece of wood that is smarter then the fools who voted for democrats.
every store should move
I think I would literally pack up and run. Why wait a month, so they can clear you out even more? No thanks, happily staying in Northern Wisconsin!
Closing 10 stores does not send any message. It’s a drop in the bucket.
If All the stores closed, it would send the clear message to Libs,…. Get out of Town !.
Leave the libs there. They keep voting for those who keep wrecking cities. Then it gets intolerable, and they move to a red state and begin the infection again. They should be forced to live with the results of their village-idiot voting.
A WALL around San Francisco!!!
Hell, Around California—THE ENTIRE STATE put a wall around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey thats what they get for promoting blm , antifa and putting them on a pedestal. by the way they are not the only big corp that has done this , i want be shopping with them
YES, AND fORD MOTOR COMPANY IS LEAVING DETROIT MICHIGAN WITH 12,000 EMPLOYEES FOR THE SAME REASON, Biden Policies are archaic, as he is dolt, his policies are as he is, not in tune with the times, or advantage to the American people.like I said before a million times over fake election, fake president, joe biden and company, hold your nose the bidens are around, name one thing you done right since being in office? joe there is a difference for being an actor and a liar, you fxxxed up on both sides of that coin, this is sick, hope that Taliban aid will be coming from the bidens art sales, said yesterday White House looking to hire “stage hands”, should have said stage hands “actors” what a clown act, these democrats are so fxxxed up, when the income comes jail will not be enough, they should be forced to return all income received both legal and illegal.Now joe, who lies about everything, we find out shared bank accounts with Hunter, you know the one he never discussed business with or Hunters friends with taken photos, who are now in jail. Biden suffers from total obfuscation, obscuring the perception of all his lies, the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. Professional liar as most of his appointed cabinet members, Mayorkas, Once Again, Defies the Law and Gives Employers the Green Light to Hire Illegal Aliens, this man lied to Congress several times,has not honored his oath to protect and serve, broken several immigration laws, and has decided to write his own laws without Congress. Where is the FBI or Congress?
this is what you get when ignorant people keep voting democrat
Demosh*ts ruined one of the most beautiful cities in the USA!
They Ruin EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE!
Turning America into a criminal filled SHIT HOLE, one Democrat in Office after another!
Time to show the punks they may lose. Good for Walgreens unfortunately the folks who need a drug store close will suffer.
True, but I suspect most of them voted for this, so too bad…
agree
Well, ladies, This CRAP affects us ALL!
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Thee”
Ernest Hemingway
Crime and Corruption ANYWHERE taints Your lives, too. We are Ever So Quickly becoming a country of rampant crime. Thanks to the damned Liberals, we don’t adequately punish criminals, so it just blossoms and escalates more and more, EVERYWHERE.
This country is rushing towards RUIN__ and THAT means for EVERYBODY.
Soylent Green was set in New York 2022. It should have been San Fran Sicko.
LOVE the “San FranSicko”!
But ASIDE from the humor…. WHAT A DISGRACE the Democrats and ALL other Evil people are!
They are Swiftly bringing on our END.
Thanks, Immoral Scumbags!
Good point. If they did reprise now, there, just think of all the scene set money they could save. Its almost that close to dystopia already.
Heard of the NEW band out of San Fran?
SATAN and the DEMOCRATS
“Death and Destruction on Parade”
GREAT Word! So very Shameful and Tragic. We are Fast becoming a Doomed society, I promise you. With NO punishment for crimes, Criminals FLOURISH!
What does anyone expect? Law enforcement has their hands tied and the “government” says it is OK to steal. This free-for-all is costing the companies and the rest of us more and more. Criminals get bolder and bolder as they can continue to steal. If it was necessary for life, it might be different, but not much. Stealing is stealing. But, our government groups, local, state, and federal, all steal from the American people anyway… Lawlessness will continue to increase.
SO True. And it AIN’T gonna be Pleasant.
THANK YOU GODLESS “DEMONRATS“!
Shazaammmm! No law = no order. If they are running a loss, then they should close for the stockholders.
Why are you stealing from WAL GREENS. MADAM SPEAKER HAS BETTER ICE CREAM AN WORTH 312 MILLION
Good for Walgreens
And who’s the Congressional representative for this area of the disastrously progressive socialist Democrat controlled state of California? None other than the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Tell me, just what has this woman done to better the lives of her constituents while she’s been in office? San Francisco used to be the “gem” of the west coast as far as tourists were concerned; but who in their right mind would want to vacation there now? It seems that everything the Democrats touch turns to crap and the folks who vote to them are the perfect example of the definition of “insanity”–doing the same thing over and over again and each time expecting a different outcome. One would think, considering the present state of the economy under Biden*, that these people would finally see “economic” error of their ways.
It doesn’t SEEM that Everything the Democrats touch turns to crap…. it DOES!
WE ARE IN A WORLD O’ HURT, FOLKS.
EVIL IS TAKIN’ US DOWN.
they have their heads so far up their butes they can’t see any thing and……. they like the view.
Biden’s America, free stuff for all!
TRAGIC___ but say G’ bye, America.
Unbelievable. Sure this start happening in all liberal shithole by more criminals. It’s time to take our country back. Need to unite and get these moron so called leaders out of office. Pathetic.
It is your fault. You voted for the Democrats who have NO values or honorable principles.
Get out and leave them to rot ! Let’s go Biden !
Nancy’s town
Ya get the government, ya deserve…and nobody cares about who’s staying or going❗️
YES YOU DO. And THAT__ spells Biiiiiig Trouble for ALL of us.
Talk to Anybody that owns almost Anything that is open to the public, and you’ll learn that this country is now largely a society of THIEVES.
Maybe if they were union they may of had protection. The woke strikes again and again. They want businesses to close down
What can you expect from DemonicRATS? the 2 security Guards let him get away? Typical Democrats, lazy, greedy and unpatriotic
The only way to keep a store in these conditions are to have the customers pay first for the items they want and it is packaged and given to them from behind bullet proof glass, or allow stores to implement snipers to shoot these vermin!
no sympathy here. they voted for this. now they can reap what they have sown.
Can other chains do same??
If Biden /Harris/Pelosi/ AOC/ Omar/ Tahlib had their way? All this would be coming to a town, your town, nearest YOU!!!!
C’mon man! They are just dreamers, Trying to be like Quid Pro Joe with his ice cream treats.
Gee…were are the poor shoplifters going to steal from now? Suggestion. How about the the drugstore that services the nearest gated community? See if the police ignore that?
Kalifornia needs to spend more time stopping shop lifters than banning gas powered lawn mowers.
closing the stores will be called,wait for it……..Racist