Everything will be ordered online and delivered to your house. If your digital currency allows it. Then these delivery trucks will be robbed.

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Originally posted by oldbill123:
Everything will be ordered online and delivered to your house. If your digital currency allows it. Then these delivery trucks will be robbed.

I completely forgot about that. My digital currency probably won't work because I referred to my overlords as dirty commies on Sig Forum. Yikes!

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Originally posted by xd45man:
2. Am I living where shoplifting is a problem?

I don't know as shoplifting is a problem solely limited to "blue" or less-affluent areas.

We just adopted another rescue kitty. When we add a new cat to the brood we always run a couple Feliway diffusers while everybody learns to live with one another. Went looking for a new diffuser and a refill for the diffuser we had. Couldn't find them. Turned out they'd taken to hanging cards for the products that you then brought to the register--at which point they'd fetch the product(s) from a locked cabinet.

I don't know as my area is "red" anymore. (The last two elections would suggest not.) But, it's certainly not low-income, high-crime.

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Everything will be ordered online and delivered to your house. If your digital currency allows it.

I've been saying it for years. Imagine how much better our world will be once everything we rely on comes from Amazon and Walmart.

A brand new Whole Foods store closed recently and it is reported the store made 568 emergency 911 calls in 13 months, for everything from violent criminals, fentanyl overdoses, shoplifting of large quantities of booze, etc. Only 14 arrests from those calls.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/re...efore-closing-report

But but but, as long as the cumulative total of the value of a retail theft is less than $950 it’s not a big deal, right?!

No, just have Amazon set up same day delivery in dense enough areas.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
They need a store run like an Amazon warehouse with just a place to pay and pickup in the front. With robots in the back pulling the order and delivering it to the customer upon payment.

A Safeway spokesman made no reference to a high crime rate in the area or theft problems in the “decades old store,” just saying financial expectations weren’t being met. The tv channel grabbed onto that, but I don’t think it can be ignored.

Look at the bars on the SafeWay building. It has the appearance of a high security military or prison building. Welcome to friendly SF!

No Charges

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Protesters held a rally Monday to demonstrate against Jenkins' decision. They called on Walgreens to eliminate armed guards, saying nothing in the store was worth Brown's life.

Well, no shit, but the dead chick tried it anyway, duhh. You want sympathy? Look in the dictionary...



This wasn't shoplifting, but he's just as dead. Happy trails...

Man choked to death on NYC subway after threatening passengers; no charges filed

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A 30-year-old man was killed on the New York City subway Monday after he started acting erratically and another passenger put him in a headlock, police say.

Police have yet to identify either man involved. The 30-year-old entered a northbound train at roughly 2:30 p.m. and began making threats against other passengers. Another male passenger, 24, stepped in and put the other man in a headlock until he was unconscious. An EMS officer who responded could not revive the man.

Police say the deceased man had a long criminal record, including convictions for assault, disorderly conduct and fare beating, according to the New York Post.

tragic, tragic

"One, two, whatever..."

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Look at the bars on the SafeWay building. It has the appearance of a high security military or prison building. Welcome to friendly SF!

That's the Fisherman's Wharf/North Beach Safeway.
I grew up in the area shopping at that Safeway, the gated/trellise facade is the two-level parking garage, a 24-hr Fitness gym on 2nd floor. The store is inside a mall building so, the accordion gate is what's pulled when they're closed.

There used to be projects across the street where the Cable Cars had their turn-around, no surprise, all the problems of petty crime originated from those projects. They were torn-down about 15-years ago and condos were built on the property instead. A Trader Joe's is across the street from this Safeway, which I'm sure has put a major dent into that Safeway's business; those two are the only grocery/food stores in that area of the SF.

The problem isn't so much theft, which is a constant now for all retailers, this area has seen commercial lease rates explode so high that there's more empty storefront than should be in a tourist area. That Safeway is a small/medium size store; given the cost per square footage metric they use, I wouldn't be surprised if they were just waiting for the lease to run-out and close shop, as the square footage of the property wasn't working out.

Not just in San Francisco.

Who always suffers from rampant shoplifting, the good, honest, law abiding customer. A shame these people in the videos are upset with the stores.




This video really nails it.

First a person interviewed makes the comment "I guess one person ruins it for everyone". Not exactly one person but yes that seems to be how it always is, a small percent of miscreants makes life difficult for the rest of us.

Second it delves into organized shoplifting. I know most people can't get their heads around this but having worked in retail (1990's) I can tell you it existed back then and I'm sure it's worse now. There were groups of professional thieves who knew exactly how the stores operated, polices worked, who security was, how to defeat security measures. It is their full time job. That is a completely different mentality than the casual shoplifter. Trust me, locking stuff up like this is temporary as it's only a matter of time before they figure out how to defeat these measures, just as they've learned out to defeat every other attempt to stop them.

The San Francisco DA is not pursing charges against the security guard as based on video evidence and witness testimony, the guard had sufficient reason to fear for his safety and discharge his firearm.

Almost predictably someone with the Young Women's Freedom Center where this upstanding and law abiding citizen worked wants to see the evidence. She further wants to know why it was necessary, even if someone felt their life was in danger, to shoot the woman in the chest. I swear you can't make this stuff up.

Yes my dear, why on earth would you ever want to kill the person trying to kill you?

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Young Women's Freedom Center

Yeah...that org is quite the collection of, lets just say that life if very difficult for them, and decision making isn't one of their strengths. My understanding, this shoplifter was in/out of jail, constantly in trouble, would show up when it had screwed-up, then disappear when it didn't need their services anymore. Notice how the news wants to frame it was 'an activist' and 'a community organizer'...it was a thief, threaten Walgreens staff and security guard, pressed it's luck and ate some lead.

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Young Women's Freedom Center

Yeah...that org is quite the collection of, lets just say that life if very difficult for them, and decision making isn't one of their strengths. My understanding, this shoplifter was in/out of jail, constantly in trouble, would show up when it had screwed-up, then disappear when it didn't need their services anymore. Notice how the news wants to frame it was 'an activist' and 'a community organizer'...it was a thief, threaten Walgreens staff and security guard, pressed it's luck and ate some lead.

If you look them up you'll see:
YWFC Helps Reduce Recidivism & End the Criminalization and Incarceration of Young Women and Trans Youth of All Genders.

If Brown was a community organizer in this group then they failed horribly. Unless their goal is to end criminalization by training women to physically abuse anyone who gets in the way of their thefts.

Announced on Tuesday, the latest big store to leave SF, Nordstroms in the downtown Westfield Center, and their outlet store on Market St, are closing down.

Nothing can compare to the blatant lunacy of the left. The disease afflicting San Francisco is obvious. The cause of said disease is obvious. But the ability to engage in ignoring the truth so that these morons can claim victory for the democRAT party is truly mind boggling. This goes for the entire left coast; there is a poison there that has infiltrated every aspect of life to the point that decent honest folks DARE not speak up as a group lest they be attacked as racist, and uncaring about the plight of the poor. The same “poor” that steal from them daily, assault them, drive out their businesses, drive away the grocery stores that feed them, literally shit in the streets like savages, and openly engage in drug use in plain view everywhere they look.

I have no sympathy for them . None. They created a plague and pretend that everything is fine. I’m sure there are “Ridin’ with Biden” bumper stickers on a vast majority of automobiles. I’m sure saying a bad word about the criminal Pelosi clan will get you ostracized from polite society. Keep stepping over piles of human shit, San Franciscan’s. Keep ignoring the piles of dirty infectious needles littering your streets. I don’t give a flying fuck about you or your self induced plight.

Perfectly reasonable....

‘I Hate You’: Trans Activist Shrieks at San Francisco Board of Supervisors

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Lia McGeever, an LGBT activist, vociferously condemned the San Francisco Board of Supervisors following the decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to decline to prosecute a security guard that shot and killed a transgender shoplifter last Thursday.

“So I don’t have any words prepared today. I just want you to feel our pain. I don’t know if you can at this point, based off your policy choices, but I have to pretend you have some form of empathy left. So, I am going to spend the next minute screaming cause that is what is going on in here,” McGeever, clad in an orange facemask, says before removing it. “That is what the trans genocide in this country, in this city, has brought me to.”

McGeever then screamed for a protracted period.

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precious...she makes a good case...?