{"id":1923237,"date":"2023-05-03T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:44:00","slug":"nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordstrom closing San Francisco stores due to deteriorating conditions."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions%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=1923237&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--><h2>Nordstrom to Close San Francisco Stores Amid Worsening Conditions<\/h2>\n<p>Retail giant Nordstrom has announced the closure of both its department stores in downtown San Francisco in the coming months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nordstrom-to-shutter-both-san-francisco-downtown-stores-citing-worsening-conditions\/\" title=\"Nordstrom closing San Francisco stores due to deteriorating conditions.\">citing worsening conditions<\/a> in the city. The Westfield San Francisco Centre store will close in August, while the smaller store across the street will shut on 1 July. The move follows a number of departures from prominent firms in recent months as crime and homelessness plague the California metropolis.<\/p>\n<h3>Difficult Decisions<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cDecisions like this are never easy, and this one has been especially difficult,\u201d said Jamie Nordstrom, the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bed-bath-beyond-shuttering-stores-announces-layoffs-and-new-financing-to-help-struggling-business\/\" title=\"Bed Bath &#038; Beyond Shuttering Stores, Announces Layoffs and New Financing to Help Struggling Business\">chief stores officer<\/a>. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Increasing Locations Elsewhere<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the closures of the two downtown stores, Nordstrom intends to substantially increase the number of locations elsewhere in the broader Bay Area.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Closures<\/h3>\n<p>The move from Nordstrom comes shortly after Whole Foods announced plans to shutter a location at Trinity Place in downtown San Francisco over drug use outside the store. Pharmacy giant Walgreens likewise closed several locations in San Francisco two years ago, while technology retailer Best Buy has struggled with safety issues related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cynthia-nixon-denounces-anti-shoplifting-laws-stealing-basic-necessities\/\" title=\"Cynthia Nixon Denounces Anti-Shoplifting Laws: \u2018Stealing Basic Necessities\u2019\">organized retail crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Organized Retail Crime<\/h3>\n<p>Retailers across the nation have also contended with increases in retail theft, much of which is increasingly organized by criminal enterprises, according to a report released last month by the National Retail Federation. The trade association said crime networks have become increasingly \u201cviolent\u201d and \u201cbrazen\u201d in their tactics over the past two years, using methods such as smash-and-grab, weapons, or threats of violence against store employees or customers.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordstrom will close both of the company\u2019s department stores in downtown San Francisco in the coming months as conditions in the city worsen. The firm will shutter its store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August, while another smaller store across the street will close on the first day of July, according to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1923238,"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":[541],"tags":[6003,4323,25672,4641,25671,7285,9845],"class_list":["post-1923237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-closing","tag-conditions","tag-deteriorating","tag-francisco","tag-nordstrom","tag-san","tag-stores"],"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\/1923237","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}