{"id":876327,"date":"2021-10-13T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876327"},"modified":"2021-10-13T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:59:25","slug":"walgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens Now Closing Stores In San Francisco Following Retail Theft Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fwalgreens-now-closing-stores-in-san-francisco-following-retail-theft-spike%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=876327&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>Walgreens is closing 5 stores in San Francisco, California, next month after a rash of retail thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/walgreens-closing-5-more-san-francisco-stores-blames-rampant-theft\">announced<\/a> the decision Tuesday. \u201cDue to ongoing organized retail crime, we have made the difficult decision to close five stores across San Francisco,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,\u201d said Walgreens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Walgreens-closing-5-Sf-stores-crime-shoplifting-16527801.php\">spokesman<\/a> Phil Caruso. \u201cRetail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average. During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am completely devastated by this news \u2013 this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades,\u201d said San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ahsha_Safai\/status\/1447988178586013698?s=20\">Twitter thread<\/a> posted Tuesday afternoon. \u201cThis closure will significantly impact this community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The City needs to act with a sense of urgency to reduce and deter the number of incidents of commercial retail theft,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ahsha_Safai\/status\/1447988180490145792?s=20\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThat is exactly what the \u201810A\u2019 legislation aims to achieve as we approach the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Safai authored a piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ahsha_Safai\/status\/1447988178586013698?s=20\">legislation<\/a> in September that would allow some 800 San Francisco Sheriff\u2019s Deputies to work part-time as security guards for businesses. The deputies would work and be paid overtime by the businesses themselves. This would expand an existing policy that allows some 2000 San Francisco police officers to work as private security.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is the fifth-most affected city by \u201corganized retail crime\u201d in the United States, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/research\/2020-organized-retail-crime-survey\">survey<\/a> published by the National Retail Federation in 2020. In June, a video of a man stuffing cosmetic products into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-shock-video-shows-man-filling-garbage-bag-in-san-francisco-walgreens-shoplifting-in-front-of-security-guard\">garbage bag<\/a> and fleeing on a bicycle went viral. A suspect was later arrested and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Man-charged-in-string-of-S-F-drugstore-16269616.php\">charged<\/a> with 15 separate counts of grand theft, burglary, and shoplifting. <\/p>\n<p>In July, a group of masked individuals stole armloads of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/caught-on-tape-san-fran-shoplifters-smash-neiman-marcus-windows-make-off-with-handbags-in-brazen-attack\">handbags<\/a> from a Neiman Marcus outlet in the city. The incident was captured on video. Later that month, four women stole bags full of merchandise from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/another-drugstore-theft-in-sf-as-foe-lashes-out-at-newsom\">CVS Pharmacy<\/a>. Retail theft forced Target to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/target-will-close-san-francisco-stores-early-due-to-rising-thefts\">curtail its hours<\/a> at several locations in the city in July. Before the current closures, Walgreens was forced to close <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shoplifting-skyrockets-in-san-francisco-forcing-retailers-to-close-stores\">17 locations<\/a> around the city in a five-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walgreens is closing 5 stores in San Francisco, California, next month after a rash of retail thefts.Walgreens announced the decision Tuesday. \u201cDue to ongoing organized retail crime, we have made the difficult decision to close five stores across San Francisco,\u201d\u201cOrganized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,\u201d said Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso. \u201cRetail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average. During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment.\u201d\u201cI am completely devastated by this news \u2013 this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades,\u201d said San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai in a Twitter thread posted Tuesday afternoon. \u201cThis closure will significantly impact this community.\u201dThe City needs to act with a sense of urgency to reduce and deter the number of incidents of commercial retail theft,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThat is exactly what the \u201810A\u2019 legislation aims to achieve as we approach the holiday season.Safai authored a piece of legislation in September that would allow some 800 San Francisco Sheriff\u2019s Deputies to work part-time as security guards for businesses. The deputies would work and be paid overtime by the businesses themselves. This would expand an existing policy that allows some 2000 San Francisco police officers to work as private security.San Francisco is the fifth-most affected city by \u201corganized retail crime\u201d in the United States, according to a survey published by the National Retail Federation in 2020. In June, a video of a man stuffing cosmetic products into a garbage bag and fleeing on a bicycle went viral. A suspect was later arrested and charged with 15 separate counts of grand theft, burglary, and shoplifting. In July, a group of masked individuals stole armloads of handbags from a Neiman Marcus outlet in the city. The incident was captured on video. Later that month, four women stole bags full of merchandise from a CVS Pharmacy. Retail theft forced Target to curtail its hours at several locations in the city in July. Before the current closures, Walgreens was forced to close 17 locations around the city in a five-year period. SFGate reported in October 2020 that one store that was closing was losing as much as $1000 in merchandise from shoplifting every day.Progressive San Fransico District Attorney Chesa Boudin has prosecuted far fewer shoplifting cases than his predecessor, according to the San Francisco Examiner, and has been notably reticent to prosecute what Boudin considers to be non-violent crimes.\u201cWe made an intentional decision to prioritize crimes involving violence, injury to human beings and use of weapons,\u201d Boudin said.At one point, Boudin blamed police officers who \u201cwant[] to get away without doing their job\u201d for the rise in retail theft.\u201cThe reality is the POA (police officers union) needs someone to point the finger at and this isn\u2019t a new issue,\u201d Boudin said earlier this year, according to CBS San Francisco. \u201cLook they were blaming (Vice President) Kamala Harris and attacking her when she was the district attorney. This is an age-old problem in San Francisco because the POA wants to get away without doing their job. They want to get away with allowing their officers to send racist text messages, to use excessive force against the community and to engage in systematic violations of civil rights of Black and brown drivers on our streets. And I\u2019m pushing back and demanding that they modernize, that they reform and that they respect all the members of our community.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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