ATTN tinman: Walgreens executive says ‘maybe we cried too much last year’ about theft

They targeted the right stores to close. Square business.

 

I get it
The d&d encourages shoplifting
And
Don’t even live in the cities that they want shoplifting to thrive

 

I will review the situation in SF for a few days next week.

 

Make sure you spend all your time in the most blighted areas where people who live here rarely venture, like Union Square, the mausoleum of mid-20th-century shopping habits.

Seriously, enjoy your visit! The eastern edge of the city, along the Bay, has really enjoyed some impressive development, from the ferry building to the baseball park, on to Warriors new arena, but further on to Crane Cove as well. If it's not raining (unlikely, sad to say), you might really enjoy a long walk in that area, given the chance.

For a nice off-grid-but-close-enough-to-downtown restaurant experience, I recommend The Morris.

 

Go to the tenderloin.
Also tell me how much commercial space is available for lease

after the d&d tour
Go to dragon beaux or rich table and enjoy that you aren’t a cheap non contributing member who never travels

 

Looks like they got to close another one
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I thought Target liked and embraced the woke.... Why not stay and let the criminals continue to steal from them, they are rich...

 

The guy had a point that I think is valid, Costco and Sams charge a fee to shop there and for that you have to sign up, pay and give them your info and then when you walk in you have to present who you are, maybe that's what some of these stores need to do. The brazen stealing has to stop, it's almost become an event where you have these flashmobs showing up and ransacking the place. I also realize this is a tough crime to prosecute, the courts are already backed up with serious crimes and stealing a purse isn't exactly that serious when you compare it to other serious crimes. I think it's time to change the game, I like the pay for shop idea, and I am not opposed to increasing the consequences of shoplifting but in reality, its going to be hard to charge someone 5 years in prison for stealing a bottle of tide, an exaggeration I know but thinking how that would play out.

 

IMO Target likes everyone who has money and to do that you embrace EVERYONE, even the crazy maga folks.

 

There's a reason why pharmacists are walking out. Corporate greed with ceos getting high a$$ salaries while cutting down manpower to run a pharmacy safely.

Burnout rate in retail pharmacy is high bc of these greedy folks

 

It's happening everywhere. I know a mcdonalds store manager that refuses to replace old ass black grease because it cuts into his bonus.

I know big corporate hospital system that runs a dangerously high nurse to patient ratio to also make money.

Corporate greed is everywhere and they don't get punished.

 

That's not the root problem.

The problem is complex but it's the combination of cultural, parental and criminal policy
you can say it's economical, but it's not. these looters are targeting either items to resell or Air Jordans.

Remember when some American Youths tried this in China? This wasn't because they didn't have money to buy things.



I'm sure the people here who advocate for this 'culture' don't like this post. but it's true.
Culture, parenting and policy.

China has very good shoplifting policy, I doubt they have issues with looters.

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If there's a Tiktok or YouTube of it then surely it's a common everyday occurrence. Actual data just isn't as accurate as selective Tiktok, Xeet, and YouTube posts.

 

Thomas Sowell is outspoken against popular culture promoted by hiphop celebrities.

Anyone who can't understand why former suburbanite Ja MoranT **** his season and possibly his career away is putting on PC blinders on how personally and societally destructive embodying that culture can be.

 

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I've said it before.

Social media algorithms have created one of the most efficient ways for rapid radicalization.

Think of any group of humans and there exists a pipeline through social media algorithms that will confirm your hate for that group of people regardless of who that group is. It's universal. Any group. Jews, white people, New Yorkers, Armenians, Nigerians whatever the group is. A social media algorithm can confirm your biases against any group as it will spam you every single instance of a person from that group doing or saying something objectionable and it's just going to spam your feed


Same with narratives like crime

 

I can definitely verify this. A few months ago, on Twitter, I clicked a tweet about some right wing conspiracy theory.

Immediately after that, my “for you” Twitter feed turned into a steady stream of wacko nut job, unverified right wing crapola by random sources. The posts all “look” like news.

I know it’s nonsense because I am predisposed to caring about whether something is real and validating before believing. But the vast majority of people are not. A large number of people don’t give a crap about whether the posts are real. It just makes them feel good to be “right”, like a ha, I told you so you stupid sheep.

I’m pretty convinced that US society peaked sometime before the combo of (1) social media algorithms and (2) Donald Trump hit. We might advance economically but socially, this country is not coming back. Even after Trump, other terrible people will do the same thing, now that the path has been shown.