{"id":1702482,"date":"2022-10-19T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702482"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:18:16","slug":"ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-over-city-that-has-descended-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-over-city-that-has-descended-into-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Closes San Francisco Store Over City That Has &#8220;Descended Into Chaos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fceo-closes-san-francisco-store-over-city-that-has-descended-into-chaos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Davis Smith, the founder of popular clothing and gear outfitter Cotopaxi, announced he is closing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/more-people-fleeing-san-francisco-than-any-other-metro-area-in-us\/\">San Francisco<\/a> store because the area has \u201cdescended into a city of chaos.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smith cited robberies, constant vandalism, and fears for the safety of his employees for his decision to shutter the store he opened \u201cin a charming shopping district\u201d a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said that the Democrat-run city\u2019s refusal to do anything about theft and safety makes it impossible to run the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is terrified,\u201d Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6988177773722841088\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey feel unsafe. Security guards don\u2019t help because these theft rings know that security guards won\u2019t\/can\u2019t stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/more-people-fleeing-san-francisco-than-any-other-metro-area-in-us\/\"> Two-Thirds of San Francisco Residents Plan to Flee Due to Crime, Homelessness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible for a retail store to operate in these circumstances, especially when cities refuse to take any action (despite us paying taxes well above any other state we operate in),\u201d Smith continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, we are closing the store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety for our team,\u201d Smith wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur store is hit by organized theft rings several times per week. They brazenly enter the store and grab thousands of dollars of product and walk out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Following the city\u2019s decision to reduce the penalty for shoplifting under $950 worth of goods amid the surge of homelessness and crime, many businesses are <strong>closing their stores and going elsewhere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/after-san-francisco-shoplifting-video-goes-viral-officials-argue-thefts-n1273848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">countless videos<\/a> across social media showing shoplifters emptying store shelves into garbage bags and walking out with security guards and police powerless to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples \u2013 Watch:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Meanwhile in San Francisco: <\/p>\n<p>A shoplifter riding his bicycle inside a Walgreen store fills his garbage bag and leaves with zero hustle. Luckily the entire security squad filmed the robbery, unfortunately no-one was able to stop the thief because of that\u2026\ud83d\udc6e\u200d\u26a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QXMyRqyekd\">pic.twitter.com\/QXMyRqyekd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Videokings \ud83d\udcf9 (@videokings_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/videokings_tv\/status\/1405218068331171840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Cotopaxi, founded in 2014, has faced unprecedented crimes since opening up its San Francisco store.<\/p>\n<p>During the store\u2019s first week, thieves smashed its windows and looted it.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he resorted to putting plywood on the windows after replacing them four times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis Smith, the founder of popular clothing and gear outfitter Cotopaxi, announced he is closing his San Francisco store because the area has \u201cdescended into a city of chaos.\u201d Smith cited robberies, constant vandalism, and fears for the safety of his employees for his decision to shutter the store he opened \u201cin a charming shopping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}