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>It's due to "a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents," said spokesperson Brian Harper-Tibaldo.

leereeves 5y ago
The same reason Walgreens closed 17 stores in SF, as was recently discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343
- antifa 5y ago
  Which apparently wasn't actually the reason, according to: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crim...
  - leereeves 5y ago
    I trust the New York Times more than I trust some random blogger: > At a board of supervisors hearing last week, representatives from Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chain’s national average, and that it had closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of thefts had made business untenable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
    - antifa 5y ago
      You trust the New York Times quote of a Walgreens PR guy at face value with no fact checking and no analysis over "some random blogger" who does fact checking and analysis for a living.
      - leereeves 5y ago
        Also in that article you'd find statements from the director of the retail crime division at CVS Health, the head of the investigations bureau at the San Francisco Police Department, a member of the board of supervisors, and the author himself. Then you could read the dozens of major news sources that ran this story, a similar story right here about Target, the numerous anecdotes about crime in SF, and the DA's publicly announced policy. It's quite well established that crime in SF is costing Walgreen's and other retailers a lot of money. Is that the only reason those stores closed? Perhaps not, but I see no cause to doubt that it was a factor.
    - atatatat 5y ago
      Well, that's a mistake a nonzero amount of the time. I trust neither, by default.

The same reason Walgreens closed 17 stores in SF, as was recently discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343

antifa 5y ago
Which apparently wasn't actually the reason, according to: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crim...
- leereeves 5y ago
  I trust the New York Times more than I trust some random blogger: > At a board of supervisors hearing last week, representatives from Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chain’s national average, and that it had closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of thefts had made business untenable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
  - antifa 5y ago
    You trust the New York Times quote of a Walgreens PR guy at face value with no fact checking and no analysis over "some random blogger" who does fact checking and analysis for a living.
    - leereeves 5y ago
      Also in that article you'd find statements from the director of the retail crime division at CVS Health, the head of the investigations bureau at the San Francisco Police Department, a member of the board of supervisors, and the author himself. Then you could read the dozens of major news sources that ran this story, a similar story right here about Target, the numerous anecdotes about crime in SF, and the DA's publicly announced policy. It's quite well established that crime in SF is costing Walgreen's and other retailers a lot of money. Is that the only reason those stores closed? Perhaps not, but I see no cause to doubt that it was a factor.
  - atatatat 5y ago
    Well, that's a mistake a nonzero amount of the time. I trust neither, by default.