EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Target Store on Mission St to Close Amid Shoplifting Tidal Wave

[PeteS in CA]

EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Target Store on Mission St to Close Amid Shoplifting Tidal Wave

https://californiaglobe.com/local/san-francisco/exclusive-iconic-target-store-in-mission-district-to-close-amid-a-shoplifting-tidal-wave/

Last week, after Walgreens announced that five additional outlets in San Francisco would be closing on top of the 17 that already have been shuttered since 2019, the company claimed that changes in both the law and prosecutor attitudes had made it impossible to run a profitable business in the city.

Mayor London Breed challenged that narrative. She attributed the closings to demographic shifts and the Chronicle dutifully reported that “the five stores slated to close had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018” (while acknowledging that few stores bother to report a crime that now routinely goes unpunished). Everyone who has stood in line at a drugstore and watched thieves shove hundreds of dollars of items down their pants knew that Breed was mistaken at best or lying at worst.

Now, in a Globe exclusive, San Francisco Police Department has revealed that the iconic Target on Mission Street between Third and Fourth Streets will be shutting its doors before the end of the year.

“This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.”

[IsailedawayfromFR]

What business wishes to remain open in a lawless city?

[sneakypete]

What business wishes to remain open in a lawless city?

@IsailedawayfromFR

Like I keep saying. The goal if the Dims is to totally crash the economy so that people get desperate and start mass lootings all over,giving them the excuse they need to declare a national state of emergency exists,so they can declare "Martial Law for the duration of the emergency".

They,of course will be the only ones with the authority to declare the emergency is over.