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Quote: "the store fell victim to a grinding decline in the city's center that began
with the pandemic and could continue for years as companies vacate
offices because of remote work."
No, you activist hacks, this did not "begin" with the pandemic. It began with anything-goes, no enforcement and no prosecution policies of irresponsible governance and the voters who keep them in office. People were sh|tting on the street in large numbers long before COVID came along
This is a fair point.
I readily admit that there is more than one factor and that includes policy, prosecution, economy, pandemic etc.
That being said, I would like to issue one big fat I TOLD YOU SO to the NYT and other news outlets etc. that largely refused to even consider the damage the shutdowns would do and how many people that would be economically ruined, increases in substance abuse etc.
Now we have the same outlets explaining how much damage the shut downs did to society, economy etc.
I still feel that we never should have had COVID lockdowns while we work to still protect the vulnerable. But it got political.
"There’s already a Ross Dress for Less at Fourth and Market Streets, and now there may be another one just a block away at Fifth and Market Streets, though it’s unclear if Ross is adding a new store or just planning to move."
"There’s already a Ross Dress for Less at Fourth and Market Streets, and now there may be another one just a block away at Fifth and Market Streets, though it’s unclear if Ross is adding a new store or just planning to move."
It is not rocket science. The social fabric is a fragile thing. It takes a long time to fix it. The wild west wasn't tamed over night. It took a long time to bring law to the territories.
It takes no time at all to destroy the social fabric. All you need is to quit enforcing the law and quit demanding responsible behavior from citizens. It doesn't take long to collapse civilization. The collapse of civlization has a mind of its own. Once the ball gets rolling, it is really hard to stop it.
Or as we said in high school Chemistry, "entropy is always increasing".
The thing is, it will take San Francisco decades to put the Genii back in the bottle, if they can at all. It remains to be seen. Things are not looking good.
Will Amazon dare speak out against these policies that are destroying businesses and cities or will they still push leftist agendas? This has to stop before this disease spreads to the red state enclaves that people are fleeing to.
“To ensure the safety of our Team Members, we have made the difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being,” a Whole Foods Market spokesperson said.
Last November, the San Francisco Standard reported that the Whole Foods location at Trinity Place had limited its store hours following “high theft” and “hostile people,” according to a statement from a store manager who was granted anonymity by the outlet.
Libs decisions are made mostly from an emotional perspective, not a logical perspective.
San Fran losing its retailers is the result of making emotion-based decisions for decades. It leads to ruin.
After the emotion-based Libs destroy a city, many will leave and move to a conservative city/state where things are much better. They can't understand why the city they left went downhill, and why the conservative place they moved to is so much better.
They can't comprehend that its political policies that causes it all...they are blind to it. They can't be reasoned with, & are not open to the logical train of thought. They are closed minded & stubborn.
Update...Nordtrom's just closed its 2 stores in san Fran too citing decline in neighborhood foot traffic, & theft.
I think we need a new thread titled "Businesses leaving San Fran" to start listing them all in one place.
Nordstrom leaves downtown San Francisco, joining big-city retail exodus
In a statement to The Post, Westfield attributed the closure to “the deteriorating situation in downtown San Francisco” and blamed the departure of businesses on “unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...san-francisco/
I think San Francisco is in the "viscious cycle" phase of social decline.
Nobody goes to just Nordstroms. They shop at Nordstoms, but then they shop at other stores too, and then go get something to eat, and maybe have some drinks at a bar.
Nordstrom closing means that 2 or 3 or 4 other businesses will lose those same customers also, any given day. So the draw that Nordstrom had to bring people downtown, and the spinoff effect of Nordstrom customers shopping at other places during that shopping trip, means less economic activity, revenue, and tax collections all around.
It is not just Nordstrom losing money, but all of the other businesses their customers would patronize as well.
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