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2021-10-19 Economy

Walgreens cited shoplifting as rationale for closing 5 stores in San Francisco, but local officials, data, and experts cast doubt on that explanation

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Posted by Fred 2021-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Well if you don't count them - they obviously didn't happen.

Liberal Logic

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-10-19 00:05|| 2021-10-19 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Policy 'experts' ~~who started all this shit~~ were casting doubt on Walgreens? Well, why didn't you just say so? We always trust 'experts', don't we?

Posted by Raj 2021-10-19 00:44|| 2021-10-19 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 down $1.
think I'm gonna need another roll of ones

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-19 01:07|| 2021-10-19 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Soon San Fran stores will be online ordering with pickup or delivery service only.

Posted by Airandee 2021-10-19 06:40|| 2021-10-19 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Huh, crime is down 100%.

You legalized crime.

Science!

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-19 10:13|| 2021-10-19 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The stores stopped reporting because the police told them they were "too busy to waste time on misdemeanors". In a shoplifting case I was a juror on the local police didn't feel like investigating until the store manager 'discovered' enough 'missing' items (funny thing they also said they had skipped the starting inventory that morning...) to elevate it from misdemeanor to Felony.

Posted by magpie 2021-10-19 10:43|| 2021-10-19 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 How much manager time does it cost to report a shoplifting that nobody will every do anything about?

Posted by james 2021-10-19 11:00|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2021-10-19 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Logistics Mole knows what is going on.

Any takers that a vibrant regional manager got promoted for distributions being up 75%, even though profits were down 25%?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-19 11:16|| 2021-10-19 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 When inflation hits hard that minimum is going to close faster. Closing stores also reduces shortages throughout the rest of the system.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-19 12:16|| 2021-10-19 12:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Why report a "shoplifting incident" if the cops won't do anything about? Walgreens shouldn't bother trying to explain. Let the good people of San Francisco figure it out for themselves. Maybe when it's a hollowed out skeleton of a city like Detroit some of them will start to wonder.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-19 12:50|| 2021-10-19 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 May even get you fired, depending on how woke the manager is.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-19 14:40|| 2021-10-19 14:40|| Front Page Top

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