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They’ve Been Forced to Take Extreme Measures in Response to High Crime

Yet another merchant in downtown San Francisco, California, decided to slash their operating hours in response to crime. Whole Foods Market can’t cope with the “high theft” and “hostile people” who come through their doors.

Another merchant in trouble

One merchant after another in Democrat run San Francisco has been forced to either close locations or cut their hours. Whole foods is going with the limited hours and hope it allows them to stay in business.

The store at 1185 Market Street “is now open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. as of Oct. 24. It used to operate from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.” That’s a tend up and down the California coast.

According to a management employee of the merchant, “It’s to better serve our customers, and it’s more or less because of the area and security issues.” Safety has to come first for staff and customers alike. “There’s just high theft and people being hostile.” Ever since the state virtually decriminalized shoplifting in amounts under $950 per incident, the retailers are forced to stand idly by and watch as expensive inventory walks out the door.

Police can’t do a thing to stop them because filling out the report kills trees. Prosecutors aren’t allowed to prosecute retail theft, so don’t waste the forms.

Police can’t enforce the laws and private security is as expensive as the losses. That doesn’t leave the average California merchant much of a choice. They already keep “a large security presence at the store, with at least three guards at any given time.

While happy to have “so much security,” the manager grimaces every time he tries to balance the books. “We’re spending more on security than any other store, I would imagine.” he adds.

Why pay for police?

Perhaps they should divert their state tax payments to the security bill and fight it out with the bill collectors in court later.

After all, the state is breaching their contract to provide law and order through professional police enforcement. If every retail merchant in the state took that approach it might wake up the obsessively woke officials.

According to Whole Foods corporate spokesperson Alyssa Patterson, “that the Mid-Market location adjusted its hours to focus on serving our customers during the most in-demand hours.

The official voice for the merchant don’t say that it helps to have more people around as witnesses and potentially armed and vigilant second amendment supporters.

Back in August, the LA Times reported that Starbucks had to close down six Los Angeles locations permanently at the end of July because of the “high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate.

A Starbucks spokesperson, “cited the ongoing mental health crisis, drug use and chronic homelessness as contributing factors.” The merchant didn’t say Democrat administration failures, but they thought it.

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