'Unless and until San Francisco commits to a full reevaluation of the liberal policies that brought it here, the doom loop will remain unbroken.' -ZacharyFaria
A Whole Foods Market is closing its doors in downtown San Francisco after being open for only a year. It is one of the largest supermarkets in downtown San Francisco, and it is closing because the company cannot “ensure the safety of our team members in the store.” Whole Foods said it would revisit opening the store if the safety situation changes.
This has been a problem in San Francisco over the last three years as the city’s lax attitude toward retail theft and drug use has degraded the quality of life in several neighborhoods. Walgreens has shut down several locations in the city over the last few years, as has CVS Pharmacy. Businesses that remain in the city have to deal with population loss as well as criminal activity. The popularization of remote work in San Francisco has made it so that people do not actually need to live in the city to continue working. As a result, many people have decided that they don’t, in fact, want to live in an expensive city where they need to worry about their car being broken into or being assaulted by drug addicts walking down the sidewalk every day.- Mark Mazza, SF Dept.
San Francisco has slightly moderated in recent years. Mayor London Breed is refocusing on crime and quality of life issues, and the city ousted its soft-on-crime district attorney with a more traditional liberal prosecutor. But that can only slow the bleeding at best. Unless and until San Francisco commits to a full reevaluation of the liberal policies that brought it here, the doom loop will remain unbroken.
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