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[e7alr]

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

2-3 hours there, 2-3 hours back, for a person generally able to walk and carry purchases by themselves. Of course people sometimes need things from a drug store in the middle of the night. During that time when public transportation is cut back from peak operations.

I have to wonder also how many neighborhood people lost their job when those 17 stores closed.

[fallenturtle]

@Samm

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

Wow! Only an hour bus ride instead of a two block walk. Why that’s no inconvenience at all.

I never said it wasn’t inconvenient. In fact I believe the sentiment was covered with the phrase “it does suck”. Point is that they aren’t “vacating the city”.

[fallenturtle]

@Smyrna

@fallenturtle

Low standards? How many Walgreens do we need to meet your high standards?

If one Walgreens or any business leaves for the reason it did and this is your response, that is a low standard in my opinion?

Is it really the reason? Or was it just a factor.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcing-Walgreens-to-cut-back-in-16536960.php

[gooddad409]

@e7alr

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

2-3 hours there, 2-3 hours back, for a person generally able to walk and carry purchases by themselves. Of course people sometimes need things from a drug store in the middle of the night. During that time when public transportation is cut back from peak operations.

I have to wonder also how many neighborhood people lost their job when those 17 stores closed.

I hope ALL the WalGreens close until SF gets their act together.

[fallenturtle]

@e7alr

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

2-3 hours there, 2-3 hours back, for a person generally able to walk and carry purchases by themselves. Of course people sometimes need things from a drug store in the middle of the night. During that time when public transportation is cut back from peak operations.

2-3 hours to go across the city.

It takes about a half hour to get to a Walgreens on public transit from Hunter’s Point (the lower right area (I checked Google Maps).

Does that suck? Yes. Do I wish the stores hadn’t closed? Yes. Is it upsetting that there’s a rash of crimes happening? Yes. Is Walgreen’s vacating the city? Not at all.

Frankly I find the motive behind this sudden concerned by the right on these closings highly suspect. Where were the threads about the CVS near me closing? Where were the threads about the Target near me closing? Where are all the threads concerned about the preexisting “food deserts” all over the country. Truth is, stores close all the time and when you relied to one of those stores its super frustrating. Yet for some odd reason the right didn’t seem to care until it was tied to left wing policies related to crime and now suddenly you (c) care about the plight of the folks who are inconvenienced by these store closings? I call ■■■■■■■■■ These poor folks are just a prop in this ageless political battle of mud slinging, just like women are being used as props in the right’s battle against transgender people.

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@gooddad409

I hope ALL the WalGreens close until SF gets their act together.

Case in point. ■■■■ the people, its all about politics.

[STODR]

@fallenturtle

Yet for some odd reason the right didn’t seem to care until it was tied to left wing policies related to crime and now suddenly you (c) care about the plight of the folks who are inconvenienced by these store closings?

Takes some real cajones to claim left wing policies causing crime and closing stores is comparable to just some random store closing because it wasn’t profitable. The fact you even said left wing policies caused it should have been your answer. It doesn’t take a conservative to dislike policies that encourages crime unless you feel all those people in SF complaining now are right wing.

[fallenturtle]

@STODR

@fallenturtle

Yet for some odd reason the right didn’t seem to care until it was tied to left wing policies related to crime and now suddenly you (c) care about the plight of the folks who are inconvenienced by these store closings?

Takes some real cajones…

Thanks! They’ve been getting bigger since I got vaccinated.

…to claim left wing policies causing crime and closing stores is comparable to just some random store closing because it wasn’t profitable. The fact you even said left wing policies caused it should have been your answer.

Well one, the fact they are closing simply because of crime is questionable. Two, the concern for the SF locals in this thread seems to be focused on losing a local store and not the crime itself. The inconvenience of a store closing is the same regardless of the reason it closed.

It doesn’t take a conservative to dislike policies that encourages crime unless you feel all those people in SF complaining now are right wing.

The people in SF are fully justified in complaining regardless of the political leanings because it directly effects them. The non-SF conservatives on this board and in the national media using them as a prop to bitch about left wing policies… not so much.

[Samm]

@fallenturtle

@Samm

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

Wow! Only an hour bus ride instead of a two block walk. Why that’s no inconvenience at all.

I never said it wasn’t inconvenient. In fact I believe the sentiment was covered with the phrase “it does suck”. Point is that they aren’t “vacating the city”.

Not yet, but 17 stores is a good start.

[STODR]

@fallenturtle

Well one, the fact they are closing simply because of crime is questionable.

No its not and you admitted to it.

@fallenturtle

Two, the concern for the SF locals in this thread seems to be focused on losing a local store and not the crime itself.

No concern is losing stores due to crime encouraged by left wing policies you said it yourself.

Keep moving the goal posts you might find a position you haven’t already compromised.

[fallenturtle]

@STODR

No its not and you admitted to it.

Where? I don’t disagree that the crime is a problem and was probably part of the rationale behind some of the closing, but I believe under performance and other financial factors played into it as well. Walgreens has been shuttering stores for years now all over the country.

@STODR

No concern is losing stores due to crime encouraged by left wing policies you said it yourself.

Does the reason the store closed effect the level of inconvenience the store closure has on people in the neighborhood?

@STODR

Keep moving the goal posts you might find a position you haven’t already compromised.

Not sure to what you are referring. My “goal posts” have been at “Walgreen’s is not vacating the city” the whole time.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

So if polling places changed from a couple blocks away from crime ridden areas to an hour away by bus, you would be OK with that?

[e7alr]

Of course they wouldn’t find that okay. Being inconvenienced once every other year is much worse that a weekly inconvenience.

[fallenturtle]

@Call_me_Ishmael

@fallenturtle

@e7alr

Depends on how far away the closest store is from where you live. A couple of blocks walk just turned into all day bus rides for some folks. But that probably doesn’t impact your neighborhood store.

Um, no? The city isn’t that big, you can take public transit across the city in about 2-3 hours. I’d estimate from any point in the city there is a Walgreens within a 1 hour bus ride, most likely shorter. It does suck, but its far from “vacating the city”.

So if polling places changed from a couple blocks away from crime ridden areas to an hour away by bus, you would be OK with that?

I would not nor am I okay with locals being inconvenienced by the loss of a nearby store. Don’t confuse my criticism of the right’s sudden concern about urban stores closing and calling them out on their hyperbole with an approval or indifference of Walgreen’s decision to close these stores.

[Rurudyne]

Aside: native Texans find the 30 minutes away is too far to visit family world to be funny.

(My mom used to work with a guy who hadn’t seen his cousins in years because they lived a half an hour away.)

Edit: “The sun has risen and the sun has set and here we are in Texas yet … driving.”

A Salty Texan’s response: “Yeah, I had a truck like that once myself.”

[Smyrna]

@fallenturtle

Is it really the reason? Or was it just a factor.

Data released by the San Francisco Police Department

only seven reported shoplifting incidents this year

While not all shoplifting incidents are reported to police

led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision.

The troughs are feeding, the sheople are eating and in Hannity Land regurgibleating the nonsense they are fed.

Again I say, if this is your response, your standards are very low.

[fallenturtle]

@Smyrna

@fallenturtle

Is it really the reason? Or was it just a factor.

Data released by the San Francisco Police Department

only seven reported shoplifting incidents this year

While not all shoplifting incidents are reported to police

led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision.

The troughs are feeding, the sheople are eating and in Hannity Land regurgibleating the nonsense they are fed.

Again I say, if this is your response, your standards are very low.

“Regurgibleating”? Unless you work for Walgreems and have the inside scoop, you’re working from articles just like the rest us. That’s mighty hypocritical.

[Rurudyne]

There’s limits to Baghdad Bobbing (nothing to see here) issues.

[WuWei]

Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages from UPS, FedEx...

Somebody needs to get hold of their thug culture…

[Cratic3947]

@WuWei

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/14/economy/la-freight-railroad-theft/index.html

Somebody needs to get hold of their thug culture…

The saddest thing I saw tis week was Gavin Newsom having a press conference to ask " How can we stop this behavior"? I was like " Dude, you are the governor. You have know how law enforcement works before running for governor." I can’t believe his staff thought saying he had no idea how to stop these thieves was a good idea. How out of touch are these dem leaders? They don’t even know why they govern, besides insider trading and parties with rich donors…