The Whole Foods at Trinity Place, at Eighth and Market in San Francisco, is closing its doors one year after opening there, with the company citing the horrible street conditions outside as the reason…
The store is set to shut down after close of business Monday evening.
“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 spokesperson said in a statement. “All team members will be transferred to one of our nearby locations.”
Does that mean the store could reopen later? It’s not clear at the moment but the Standard reported last November that this same store was cutting hours because of rampant theft.
Most of the shoplifting happening at these stores is connected to gangs who use homeless people to “boost” merchandise from the stores. The homeless then sell the items they steal for a few dollars, basically enough to buy drugs. The fences then deliver the stolen goods to a warehouse where they can be resold as new on Amazon, eBay or other sites. The total amount of stolen merchandise often adds up to millions of dollars, making it difficult for the stores to survive.
This is big business and by winking at the low-level crimes committed by homeless addicts, San Francisco and other cities are making the entire scheme possible. And while the homeless are robbing the retailers, other gangs of thieves are robbing people’s cars. We saw that make news recently when a CNN crew with private security had their car broken into and robbed while they were doing a story about crime in the city.
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