I wonder what homicide Detective Mike Stone and his upstart partner Inspector Steve Keller would think of 21st-century life on The Streets of San Francisco. The characters would be appalled. So are most retailers.
And despite the city by the Bay recalling its soft-on-crime DA, San Francisco continues to stumble, and that’s not a surprise. The COVID response showed a wide audience that it is easy to break things but no small matter to fix them after. Decades of Democrat rule – which remains unchanged – cannot be undone with one election of a slightly less liberal crime boss.
Related: Amazon is Closing Retail Stores in Dem-Run Cities ‘cuz Crime!
Rhetorically speaking, San Francisco has already fallen into the ocean. Even Whole Foods can’t stand it anymore.
The nearly 65,000-square foot location at Trinity Place in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood shut its doors Monday to “ensure the safety” of its employees, a Whole Foods spokesperson said. Although Whole Foods did not share any additional information on the conditions that led to the store closing, the spokesperson added that it was a “difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being.” Affected employees will be transferred to nearby stores.
The location was only a year old, opening in 2022 and heralded as a flagship for the brand. But this is San Francisco. Drug use in the bathrooms forced the company to limit access. They even cut their operating hours, but in the end, decades of Democrat rule won out. There was no way for them to protect their employees or their product from crime, so they closed the location.
CNN reports that this particular unit offered 3700 local products, so this doesn’t just affect the rich bastards running Amazon, who own the brand. Locals trying to eke out a living have been deprived of sales, diminishing their livelihoods.
Don’t feel too sorry for them. The odds are good that they are Democrats who continue to exacerbate local decline by refusing to see the root cause of it. Electing Democrats. And thanks to ranked-choice voting, they get to pick from which Lefty gets to screw them over and over.
And odds are good that despite all the bad management, crime, and decline, things will keep getting worse. That, and they are in California, which, as a state, is on the same downward trajectory, a path reinforced by the departure of not just retailers but people.
The people who might vote for change saw the forest for the trees and hoofed it out as soon as they were able or were hoping too soon. That will leave the systemic failure of Liberal rule and those trapped by it.
And at this rate, with very little in the way or choice when it comes to the store’s from which they can steal.
