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Whole Foods Closes Its "Flagship" San Fran Store After Just A Year Due To Crime

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

The location in question is a 64,000 "flagship" Whole Foods store that you just know the company wouldn't be closing down unless things truly had run amok. 

The Whole Foods Market at Eighth and Market streets is reportedly shutting down this week due to concerns about safety.

The company said: "We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being. If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location."

report from the San Francisco Standard said that "deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store" are the reasons it is closing. 

The location had already cut its hours as of October last year, due to "high theft" and "hostile visitors", the report says. Syringes and pipes were found in the restroom last year, prompting the store to also implement new bathroom rules around November 2022. 

"They just barely opened up," one nearby neighbor told The Standard. "I've seen security run into the store real quick before, like, something happened."

Supervisor Matt Dorsey said on Twitter: "I'm incredibly disappointed but sadly unsurprised by the temporary closure of Mid-Market's Whole Foods. Our neighborhood waited a long time for this supermarket, but we're also well aware of problems they've experienced with drug-related retail theft, adjacent drug markets, and the many safety issues related to them."


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