The Continuing Decline of San Francisco

Organized Retail Crime, safety, and drug use are all cited as reasons for the decline in retail. Nordstrom shuts down BOTH stores in crime-ridden San Francisco - as Target locks entire product range behind security glass and Whole Foods store is shuttered | Daily Mail Online

That's right, not even Left-wing Whole Foods can operate a store in San Francisco.

Nordstrom is closing two store, its Westfield Mall location and its Nordstrom Rack location. Westfield Mall or Westfield Center is located in San Francisco's Union Square. The Nordstrom Rack is located across the street.

Target is fighting the organized retail theft by making shopping more difficult, but at least still possible.

Remaining stores like Target have been reduced to locking up their entire stock behind glass to deter shoplifters.

Whole Foods, the Leftist company that they are, decided that they needed to open a store in the Tenderloin.

Organic food giant Whole Foods opened a new 'flagship' location at Trinity Place in the city's Tenderloin District in March 2022, hoping to revitalize footfall after two years of draconian COVID-19 restrictions severely impacted businesses in the area.

But a Whole Foods spokesperson declared the store closed down due to safety concerns for its staff. 'We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,' the spokesperson said in a statement. 'If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.'

The company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the store as the driving factors behind the closure.

Drug use in the Tenderloin? Color me shocked.

Now the city can cite statistics about how "Crime is Down," but these fall under the heading of Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Despite official reports that San Francisco's crime rate is on the way down, one former prosecutor said this month that the city's liberal district attorney's decision not to prosecute many crimes skewed those numbers.

It's not a crime unless the DA says it is.

But then this is exactly what the people of SF keep voting for.

The hat tip goes to Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily San Franmeltdown News.

I’ve pretty much stopped wondering how far down the Left Coast can go. I think things will pretty much have to descend to the Medieval period before anyone can turn it around; the cognitive dissonance of California voters (remember what it means when you try the same thing over and over and expect different results?) is just sunk in too deep.