Inside the empty Nordstrom in downtown San Francisco, closing after more than 3 decades
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2023
- With the downtown Nordstrom location in its final days, a once vibrant store is desolate with mannequins packaged away and many empty displays in sectioned-off areas. STORY: abc7ne.ws/3Pd4tz9
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Congratulations, San Francisco voters. You got exactly what you voted for.
a twice impeached 4 time indicted ex-president and a House more obsessed with Hunters laptop than tackling homelessness, crime, and drugs across the country?
Bad part of that is we all reap those failures, not only in California
@@timothywells4213 No, SF really embraced these liberal policies. CA outlaws drinking straws but embraces free hyperdermic needles for drug addicts.
San Francisco voted for that!! No regrets!! Look into what you voted last time,,,,they all might have voted not to recall Garvin as well :)
@@jpthsd Silly, lazy, entitled and privileged Cali voters. Smh.
They voted to decriminalize shoplifting and then can’t understand why retail is failing.
SMH
LOL! It's "progress."
you meant they voted to legalized shoplifting
Just saw someone shady leaving Macy’s at union square with the sensors beeping and there wasn’t even any security at the front to stop any of it from happening at all. 😂 seems like even they’re giving free access to thieves
@@TheS00ththat's the reason they can do it. The place is deserted of people, like a dead mall, and there's all that product laid out
WHo voted to legalize shoplifiting? Last time I hecked, it is illegal to shoplift in SF.. if the stores don't want to apprehend the people that are stealing until the police arrive, then that is on them.
They seem to blame everything else except the high crime and the shoplifting and the lack to prosecuted criminals.
FNdiversity
Policies that make criminal activity the norm.
How many Nordstroms are left at the mall in your town? Or did the mall in your town close too?
@frankmacleod2565 SF is not a town genius it's a city. It was once a major tourist destination. Tourist malls don't close because of shopping trends that effect "towns". They close when people stop visiting due to crime. They close when they're losing to much money from pro crime politics.
@@mattb8754 thanks for the lesson genius, I was using the term town colloquially. Look that word up if you arent familiar with it. Malls are closing all over the country. Sounds pretty bad back east in trump country, nothing left but walmart and the big box stores. Empty malls, empty "towns" and cities and unincorporated communities all over back there. San Francisco is still a tourist destination, believe it or not. Tourists all over down there right now. The crime is outta control though, undoubtedly due to horrible policies, so in the case of San Francisco and these other hardcore leftist cities like Portland, they have to change those policies. They figured it out fast enough.
She didn’t even acknowledge that crime is the reason Nordstrom is closing.
She will when she gets the Shivanthi treatment.
typical child like reporters
Democrats never admit to that fact.
Smash a grap is the real problem
than San Francisco are totally death
Every major cities in process of dying because of the Smash-and-grab and nothing is been done about this free shopping
You did not pay attention to the rest of the video did you. If she reported everything and said why have report on the fields, why bother interviewing people there. 🤦♂️
I saw guy hitting a meth pipe inside the mall back in April. Then I go outside and it’s a zombie apocalypse. I really thought I’d be robbed by the time I got to my car. Who the hell would want to shop there now?
Human feces are found in the elevators 3 times a week at minimum. Why would anyone want to go there?
No one was shopping their to start with, most people moved to online shoppign after the pandemic, which is why the homeless moved in..
😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow this is just beyond dad. Its not sage out there folks and he is not lying. They shoot dope all the time . Authorities see it and they keep driving pass and no rest
@@HicSvntDracones Any explanation for why the move to online shopping has hit SF but not the rest of the world? It is disgusting the way you liberal shills keep trying to convince others that SF is no different from other places. The largest mall operator in SF has handed the keys back to the banks. The largest hotel operator handed the keys back to the banks the same month. The commercial real estate vacancy is by far the worst in the country and climbing. This track record is not normal. And it is not normal for people to have to tiptoe around used needles and poop to go about daily business, and it is not normal to be unable to park your car in the city area. The fact that you try to pass this off as happening everywhere just shows how immoral "progressives" are. I live in a city that has the same access to the internet, yet downtown is as vibrant as ever, and people still behave like people, not animals.
@@HicSvntDracones Bs about online shopping. Groceries can not go online. I need to try clothes. For 1$ online I spend 1000$ in store.
SF residents need to start voting for different leaders. All their leaders have failed them miserably. Nightmare of crime, drugs, and filth.
It's by design. They are Communists. The entire progressive left and even mainstream Democrats have embraced policies which are starkly Marxist and Maoist. So have the media. The super rich know that communism is a great way to steal from regular people, and to enslave them.
Stop being so phucking naive! The people of San Francisco didn't vote these criminals into office. They were installed.
Blame colonization and murdering nearly all California Native Americans….
Especially _filth!_
How does anyone know if these people were voted for or if the election was rigged?
😠 It's a crime what's been happening to SF downtown! Stop treating repeated addicts and thieves with compassion and leniency. They don't deserve it and are, literally, robbing the life out of SF!
They're _living in filth!_
Hawaiian dogs are opinionated these days 😂
@@joshpratt5519 : 😏 This dog used to live in SF so I know what I'm talking about.
Sad for all those retail employees that lost their job
They couldn't afford to live there anyway!
I'll bet it's a relief for them. Now they don't have to commute to a dangerous store that gets robbed every hour.
U feel sad for them ??? They were bairly making a living wage anyways they would make more that Ralph’s or vons even the 99cebt store pays more I feel sad for the homeless people who have to deal with expensive stores and has prices rent and high food cost
Nah. They voted for this.
Come November they will still vote Democrat. Eff them.
This is what happens when you allow people to _live in filth!_
America = Filth
Called a recession dumb3ass been in one since last April
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA!
There is no decline in retail brick and mortar. People just choose to shop where it’s clean and safe
yep my pro law enforcement area is having difficulties with Bidenomics, but overall is hanging in there anyway, no stores closing.
Correct. Westfield Valley Mall, several miles to the south in San Jose, generates the highest PSF sales of any large retail center in CA. Even today, it still sees healthy foot traffic. It also contains luxury stores that originally were exclusive to mainly the Union Sq/Westfield SF Centre area. If people still leave their hearts in SF, a lot more of them leave their disposable income elsewhere in the Bay Area.
Not true, have you seen all the dead mall videos on RUclips?
@@theone9705 that's a very good point, the age of the shopping mall seems to be passing in ALL towns.
Yes, just last night I was at Westfield mall in San Jose and the place was packed.
If we don’t stand up against criminals
The worst isn’t yet here.
Ikea isn't a game changer. It's product isn't as easy to steal. They have little, or no items near the exit doors, and furniture usually is in 2 or more packages, and are heavy and useless if all the items's components aren't taken at once.
So watch out when a big van pulls up!
They will steal one item at a time
Maybe homeless people will be stealing what they can carry. Not for resale, but something for their tent home. Pillows, blankets, cushions.
Ikea also isn't as large of an ecommerce retailer, along with home depot, lowes, autozone, and etc.. those stores are doing fine
Even if they don't steal, the insane, violent street people will make for an interesting shopping experience.
Yes people's shopping habits have changed, they dont like shopping amongst homeless tents, human excrement, used needles, and drug addicts
I thought that was mugatu's *Der Elite* style!?
Finally a place for the homeless to destroy. That’s awesome.
You mean drug addicts and the psychotic. There are plenty of homeless services for most of us who unfortunately may end up without a job / home.
@its-all-good The psychotic can’t get help on their own. They need social workers…….
@@user-sw2wv1zx1t The vast majority are drug addicts who refuse services including free places to stay if only to obey simple rules and seek addiction help paid for by taxpayers. Drugs are the #1 issue of those living on the streets of SF.
They should go live there
@@user-sw2wv1zx1tThey are psychotic because of drugs. Every interview I've seen by a person who used to be out there and changed their lives, said over 98% of mental problems out there is due to the drugs being freely taken.
It warms my heart to see people getting what they have voted for. I felt happy for these people. They earned it.
Like the people of Mississippi voted for the highest homicide rate in the nation? Or like how Amazon is closing stores like this nationwide? How many Nordstroms are still open at the mall in your town?
I know, and watching them head to court and most like prison is AWESOME. I also love watching the absolute failure the last 4 years have been, with still zero evidence to impeach Biden, or to impeach his son.. who is a private citizen... in the meantime, homelessness, rime, and drug use continues to surge across the nation, but you know.. Hunters Laptop is more important.. but hey, SF is here to distract
@@frankmacleod2565Last I checked, we were discussing San Francisco, and not Mississippi.
Unless you are "geographically challenged", that is.
@@starguy2718 "geographically challenged" yep totally. I only spend about 15 hours a week on the GIS software, mapping LiDAR data and all sorts of stuff probably way over your head. Sorry though, I didn't realize there were specific constraints on this youtube chat
@@frankmacleod2565 Jackson Mississippi has one of the highest homicide rates in the U.S. because it's radical Socialist Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumamba decided to defund the Police and let crime reign free.
The lady interviewed stated "Younger people want to see newer concepts." How about not getting ROBBED as a "Newer Concept."
The mayor reminds me of Marie Antoinette stating "Let them eat cake." She is living in LALA Land.
Might as well just turn it into a homeless shelter.
oh they will do that without anyone inviting them.
New immigrants would love to live there!
DONT WORRY HALF WILL BE MADE INTO LUXURY APARTMENTS LIKE ALL THE OTHER MALLS!!!!!!! STOP CRYING AND WHINNING....ENJOY THE LIFE GOD GAVE YOU INSTEAD OF HAVING CHINA TELL YOU EVERYTHING IS BAD LOLZ
You did it San Francisco, way to go!!!🎉🎉🎉
@williamdriver. Hey dope head. Just in case you live under the rock. America shops online and the pandemic only turbo charged it.
OH NOES!!1! MUH MALL!
4 years of orange man has been SO DESTRUCTIVE to America. Now we need to BUILD BACK BETTER! VOTE DEMOCRAT! BIDEN 2024!!!
IKEA: come and challenge me
thanks to Biden
We used to live 30 minutes east of SFO and would visit SFO almost every other weekend and through the years, we’ve seen the deteriorating conditions that plagued the city. The leadership or lack of it, or it’s sympathetic stance towards “homelessness”, support for drug addiction, crime, etc didn’t help at all.. so sad to see the city by the bay going through this mess.
Keeping the streets clean & safe is 99% of the battle! If the city did that, none of the retailers would have left in the first place! But the city does not appear to WANT clean, safe streets, as they’ve essentially handed the area over to the homeless & drug-addicted. This is what the city wants. Don’t know why, but it’s what they want.
Credible whistleblowers explained that the politicians embezzle 95% of money that was supposed to go homeless aid programs. It’s simple money-laundering. That’s what I always suspected since we never see good results. Whenever they have a crazy idea that everyone sees as enabling the problem (drug tents to “safely” consume illegal drugs), it is because they think we are stupid.
Former SF resident. The residents demanded the homeless be gotten rid of - for decades. Business demanded it - for decades. The city - a little too late - is now demanding it. They have all been sandbagged at every turn by "homeless advocates" and the courts. I don't know how this gets fixed. It's not like most of the homeless are employable in any capacity whatsoever. Most of them, at least when I lived there, were visibly and obviously insane.
Homeless enablers. Time for tough love.
The homeless industrial complex is killing the city and the city is smiling and loving them for it. So crazy.
@@Anon1mous I think people initially had good intentions about helping the homeless, but then the homeless didn’t do anything to help themselves and created a mess in the meantime.
@@Anon1mous exactly cut the funding to those non profits and watch things change quick.
because the city voted for the same people.
San Francisco is getting what it voted for.
What did it vote for? Seems to me like instead of taking care of homelessness, crime, and drug use , which is a nationwide issue, the GOP instead spent the last 4 years concerned about a laptop and trying to impeach a president that they still have found 0 evidence for, while trying to keep themselves from getting indicted.
Soo sick of Mayor Felicia, many district supervisors and notable head of city departments...please leave.
What could go wrong when you elect people, vote for the policies and the party that enables criminals in the name of social justice?
Soccer stadium? Huh? What? These politicians are out to lunch. They've known for nearly ten years this would be the result of their bankrupt policies, but they kept (and KEEP) going down the same paths. A -25% drop in sales tax revenue is NOTHING compared to what I think will be the result of revaluation of property taxes and that will put SF in the red and to the brink of bankruptcy.
Soccer and sport event attendees don't buy Armani suits and Chanel cosmetics. PERIOD.
My wife and I would spend two weekends every year in the city. Take in a play, have a nice dinner. In the morning we would go into the Buena Vista for an Irish Coffee then go across the street and go up town to the mall on the Trolly. We have many home decorations we purchased there. These days the only time I go to the stinking drug-infested crime ridden city is when heading to the beach to go fishing. We never stop, just drive on through. You can smell the city before you ever get there!
Wow! You said it so succinctly. We feel the same way after having lived in the City for 25 years.
I used to visit several times a year to shop (esp for Xmas) and dine. No more. Don’t want to get assaulted or have my car broken into. Sad.
Need tj hooker to clean things up, "the filth"
The real world stinks because people prefer the virtual one, and have withdrawn their participation in it
Portland is about the same. Seattle not far behind.
If only there was a way to cut down on crime and punish wrongdoers.
Doesn't matter what concept you bring the the mall if the retail stores keeps being robbed
Stevie Wonder saw this coming. When you let the criminals run the city, this is what happens.
Stevie Wonder saw this coming - I see what you did there.
In my book, the whole town is filled with cr11m1n@/s from voters to who they elect.
Ikea closing will be a game changer, lol.
it is a game changer. look what it did for East Palo Alto? They gave all the criminals jobs and helped turn their lives around!
Give it 3-6 months.
@@bigx9963being to nice I give it 2
Smash and Grabbers excited to go to Ikea
@@Spaceboy2000 smash and grab what a couch? lol
I don’t think IKEA will last one year in San Francisco
So sad to see how a once vibrant city turned into this. you all know who needs to be replaced !
As storefronts close criminals will follow you home and break in.
It is now. You just don't hear about it on the news.
that's already happening in Los Angeles.
@@mikeg3439oh how I wish it would happen in LA. Unfortunately housing prices here just keep going up. It's ridiculous. I have no idea where all these people with so much money come from to buy all these insanely overpriced homes come from. The most run down POS trash anywhere in or around Santa Monica, Culver city, century city.....anywhere in LA proper is $2M or more
That's already happening, and it's going to get worse.
@@Kababthat because inventory is extremely limited now. Transactions are quarter of what it was 2-3 years ago. Price is up because the market caters only to those with huge money down or cash.
It’s sad - I used to get on BART with my daughter and go into The City for a day. It was an exciting, vibrant, city, full of life. Now, it’s a vapid, eerily quiet place where you have to watch your every step. Count me in as one of those who said adios to SF.
I used to love to visit back in the 80s &90s. I was a Miners fan & was there in 90&94 for their SB celebration. It was a pretty nice place,now its the west co. version of Detroit/Baltimore. Never again will I go.
As long as crime remains high in the city nothing they do will work..
Flash Mob thefts are rampant there. Not only do they lose huge revenue, its also a danger to the staff and paying customers. London Breed lets it happen.
London Bree needs to be Shivanthed.
I wonder how much Sarah gets paid for doing nothing.
We should invest in Driverless taxis and make sure housing is unaffordable. Please also provide free drugs to homeless people and don’t forget more Taxes everyone who is working.
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All of those plans are well underway. We're in the thick of it now.
And dont forget discriminate against minorities
Breaks my heart to see what is happening in San Francisco.
To all of California, really.
You surely must mean voting Democrat.
I don't think I've seen looters going through an IKEA store lately. Visitors to any city want to feel safe and SF is NOT providing it. Get your priorities straight.
Black contributions
I give Ikea a year at best. No business can survive in SF with all the crime and looting.
you're gonna loot a couch?
@@andytran1603 It comes broken down in a box and needs assembled. Besides, this store is concentrating on small furnishings.
A couch comes in a box? Never heard of that lol@@bobroberts2371
@@andytran1603 Ikea has sheets, pillows, cookware home decor, everything to have the hippest tent in the homeless camp.
@@andytran1603Ikea is going to have people overdosing in the bathrooms. The building will have a sea of transients begging for money from the hundreds of people who go there daily. It will be an absolute magnet for car thieves. The lawsuits Ikea will face because little Johnny walked in on an overdosing heroin addict in the restroom, or because Joe Schmoe had $30,000 in personal belongings stolen from his car and he feels Ikea didn't provide adequate security will force corporate Ikea's hand. 911 will be called from the location 5 or 6 times a day. Ikea's insurance rates will skyrocket. It has nothing to do with stolen couches. Opening up a large retail shop in San Fran is retail suicide.
Huge loss. Stop the theft and more so STOP the perception that theft is anything but a punishable crime
That lady should have said ,”People are shopping online because they are sick and tired of walking over contaminated needles and feces , and are in
fear for their lives when they come to visit our shopping center. “
This is so sad…. Vote out London breed
Too late - the radical DIMs have ruined this city, and are trying to finish off the USA ASAP!
They will vote in another like her. Chicago voted Lightfoot out and voted aa dude worse than her. NYC?
How about cracking down on crime and homelessness
because Hunters Laptop is more important
@@HicSvntDracones A Federal investigation has nothing to do with local political failures.
@@jeffrobodine8579 The homeless and crime issue is largely a result of all the drugs coming in, and instead of focusing on stopping the drugs coming in through our ports, the house has been investigating a laptop, and a president for 4 years and has still found zero evidence.. they could have been putting an end to the fentanyl issue, that IS federal
The community is to blame for this, a direct reflection of the class of people that live in a city that tolerates crime
Mayor London Breed didn’t mention crime once or it’s negative effect on shopper’s or tourists perception of their own personal safety. She reminds me of an ostrich because she always seems to be putting her head in the sand.
As a B person myself, she is the best representative of B culture where cri&&&me is something to be proud off.
We deserve this and we act like it’s a big surprise. Almost everyone being interviewed did not state the obvious. 😂 A soccer stadium? Seriously? 😂
Thank you Democrats for making all these possible.
Thank the GOP for spending the last 4 years focused on impeaching Biden and his son, and still having 0 evidence, rather than trying to actually take care of the homelessness, crime, and drug issues affecting the entire country, since 90% of the homeless in SF are not from SF...
It is a combination of things. The crime plus the cost of living. The hard-working employees that work at these stores cannot afford to even pay rent in the city they love & work in. The real state got too expensive because of pure greed from the tech industry companies & their employees buying out the housing. Plus, crime runs the state of California. It is sad. The entire California state government needs an overhaul!!!!
The challenge isn't around retail. Iit's around the crimes impacting the business, and the lack of consequences embolden the criminals.
No, the challenge is getting the stores to apprehend the criminals so the police can charge them.. if the stores elect to let the thrieves walk out, that is on them.
@@HicSvntDracones The police can arrest them so the District Attorney can release them immediately.
@@jeffrobodine8579 The DA's can't release anyone one they are charged, you obviously don't know how the criminal justice system works. Most shoplifting is a misdemeanor, they are given a ticket, which is a court date and an OR bond, they have to go to court, where they can face up to 1 year in jail. In Felony cases are over $950 , and he DA can't release them, if they have enough evidence to charge them, they have to charge them, the judge usually gives them bond, that isn't "releasing them"... they still have to return to court. I don't knwo why so many people think giving someone bond is simply dropping charges, our courts are full with criminal cases right now, so many that we have huge delays.. if the DA's were dropping all the charges, we would have no delays in court
@@HicSvntDracones The DA certainly has the authority to release individuals who are arrested. The federal government requires DAs across the US to release this data. A simple Google search would tell you that the San Francisco DA outright drops 52 percent of the charges that come across its desk. Only 5.2 percent of criminal arrests in San Francisco result in charges being filed. That means that the cops arrest and bring someone in on legitimate charges, and the DA dismisses them. Your ignorance is astounding!
@@mattf2146 You didn't read the comment... The DA doesn't "dismiss" charges. They decide if the are going to charge or not, once they charge, only a judge can actually dismiss the charges. You can also go BACKWARDS in that data... and it has been 5% for as far back as the data shows, which is 2011... and no one was complaining about the crime between 2011-2019.... in 2011 1,262 arrest were charged with a crime.. in 2022 it was 1,603 and so far in 2023 it has been 1,083, which shows we are on track for charging more arrests this year than in the last decade, except for 2017 which was an oddly huge year for arrests, and had like 2,800 people charged. That is also data just for the SFPD, and doesn't include the San Francisco Sherriff. I also bet that if you look at other cities, you are going to see similar rates. ALL DA's only charge people they have enough evidence to convict, in fact, that is even verified by the judge during arraignment.
You know its all kind of wrong when the people who want to say crime is the problem have to stay anonymous on TV.
Soccer Stadium in a HOSTORIC mall? London Breed is insane. Just fix the homeless issue.
Now imagine the state of who voted her... him... they... whatever in.
@@Willowy13 I live in it and I swear..... they're crazy. I tell it to their faces. I'm not afraid of telling it how it is. Some day I'll run for office if I have to ... because these people are just plain stupid.
10 or 15 years ago it was such an experience to go to SF to shop. Now i don't even want to go near the place. Can't drive your car because they'll bust your windows. Can't take the train because weirdos always wanna talk to you. What a nightmare
Sad times. :( The obvious consequences of crime and the lack of will and courage to deal with it effectively.
Yes, peoples'shopping habits are changing, out of the spirit of necessity. No excuses - San Francisco needs to clean up its act. Our once beautiful city won't recover until it deals with its horrific crime, drugs, to-the-moon cost of living and doing business, corruption, lack of resources in areas that are really needed, like a healthy and together police force, appropriate resources for addicts - Clean up the streets, SF!
I've always loved the City, but it needs to get real.
Well said. Thanks.
Solve the cost of living crisis and the rest will solve themselves. But how TF to actually do that????
@@junkboxxxxxx The addicts need some real help. Many need medical intervention.
People's shopping habits ARE changing. Once people used to actually go to the cash register and buy things, now they just load up their shopping carts and run out the door.
I live in Sf, I drive to valleyfair to shop. Retail hasn’t changed. Sf changed.
Strange, the two major malls near me in my decidedly-not-liberal county in Florida are both doing very well and nobody is clamoring for "newer concepts" or indoor soccer arenas to replace department stores.
sure they are, There are currently around 700 malls in the US, down from 2,500 in the 1980s.. by 2030, will only be 150 malls left in the US
@@HicSvntDracones The malls that will be left will be in States like Florida.
We have malls opening here in Brazil.
Let’s face it, a significant part of SF’s revenue comes from tourism. Shopping is a cornerstone of that industry. So if there’s no shopping, there’s much less motivation for tourists to come, or at the very least SF will miss out on the revenue from shopping and surrounding safer cities (SJ) will benefit.
You have got it backwards. SF encouraged filthy, drug addicts and homeless derelicts to overtake their streets. SF started the decline by choosing scum over decent people. Their DAs do not prosecute shoplifting criminals which causes retailers to lose money. This all happened FIRST. Now, people/tourists are voting with their dollars and their feet and choosing to avoid San Frans*@thole. They could have all kinds of retailers move into SF right now but that won't make tourists want to come visit. Who would have thought that decent, law abiding people wouldn't want to walk across feces covered sidewalks, visit retailers who are full of thug shoplifters who will probably steal your purse on the way out, and DAs who don't prosecute crime? SF did this to themselves. Good job.
IKEA has to hire their own private security (8-10 people on the safe shift). I just don't see how that store will be profitable, with less people walking in that area.
Why would you need an indoor soccer stadium where the weather is nearly perfect year round?
It’s foggy and cold. That’s not perfect weather.
LOL!
@MsRotorwings And yet Seattle has an MLS team that plays outdoors...
It’s for drug addicts to have a place to watch soccer indoors.
If you want to steal tax payer $$ with an overpriced stadium...
Sydney strongly proves that Westfield closure has nothing to do with the shift to online shopping. Westfields there remain relatively vibrant atm
Same with the Westfield Valley Fair Mall in San Jose which is always packed and vibrant.
You’ve already shown people what is possible. By rolling over to accommodate crime, you’ve shown softball law enforcement and retail prosperity cannot go together.
I avoid downtown due to crimes, homeless and drugs.
Don’t be surprised it’s gonna be happening everywhere. It already is.
Everywhere! Everywhere the liberals are in control.
Try that in a small town
Not in my small town
And are we surprised at the proliferation of guns?
The SF mayor and city council ought to see the movie "Escape From New York". The whole downtown should be converted into a prison and a fentanyl Garden of Eden, much like the movie. That would be kool!
She should say....Bring those vendors down to ground floor where looters have easier access and can quickly get away with the things they steal because, you know, San Francisco is one of those liberal cities where you can go shopping without only money.
Here's a concept: prosecute criminals like these dirt bags that break into cars and loot stores, get rid of all the addicts and homeless encampments, and maybe, people will start to visit downtown San Francisco again
OR....
Just build a soccer stadium with enough state tax money to skim off before you retire.
Please thank Gavin Newscum, Attorney General Rob Bonta and Mayor London Breed. Wokeness at its best. Watch all 3 get reelected. 😂
I will watch them get reelected as I watch Trump head to prison
Gavin Newsome was elected 3 times and I don't think there was any fraud, considering the number of people who signed the petition to remove him. The one thing Americans need to do is ensure he stays in Califorzuela.
@@HicSvntDracones So, never?
@@HicSvntDraconesyour buddy Biden is headed to prison first 😂 and hunter will be indicted real soon
@@Willowy13so, you tryna cope?
shopping patterns have always been changing. retail has always adapted... yet, city officials still won't concede that it is rampant, unabated crime that is the root cause of retailers not having faith that the situation will improve.
Communists will always blame someone or something else for their wrongdoings.
Good idea to move the shopping experience to the ground floor to make it easier for smash and grab gangs.
Oh well, keep on with the compassionate care and response to the criminals. Keep enabling the drug addicts and professional homeless, keep empowering their compassionate advocates.
Wierd, this week San Francisco has been crowded. People are coming back but the crime and homelessness are still a problem and it's the reason why many businesses are closing.
It's time for the residence of SF to imagine what their city would be like
with a new mayor and supervisors who can begin to undo the mismanagement
that has taken place over the last several decades. Tax revenues are shrinking
and they have to learn to live within a budget.
on several news reports similar to this you hear over and over " the way people shop has changed" you mean as in change the city where they shop for ona that's clean and it's safe to do it
I remembered when it first opened. The young women in our office loved that place.
Is SF Macy's next?!? Not surprised if it is..... I'm sure Macy's is paying more rent than making profits for the store....
And getting robbed.
From 1996 to 2000 I worked in this store. I feel very sad it has closed but not surprised.
So sad to see this. Shopping with a smartphone will never replace what glamorous shopping used to be 😢
oh - where do the thieves go now.....Ikea is the new spot to rob...
too much work...
@@markh4926 when the fentanyl start to wear off...and they need another fix....it is five finger discount shopping at Ikea !!!!!
Ikea even has big shopping bags to do all your shoplifting with 😜
@@markh4926 🤣assembly required!
I'd say thoughts and prayers, but given it being SF, I'll say "sage smoke and drum circles."
They voted for this. Proudly. Smugly. Zero sympathy for them, other than the poor few people there who didn't vote for it, for them, my heart breaks. I live in So-Cal, I know your pain very personally.
One dumb comment.
Repeatedly.... and will vote again for it. I am sad for those that didn't vote for it and can't leave Hell Inc also as Commiefornia.
if they want to bring more shoppers they need to bring in more police and security. Samthing for bart, no one is going to ride bart until you put police and security on-board and not just on the outside.
You might as well put a security uniform on a mannequin in San Francisco.
Don't you mean more social workers to de-escalate things?
Hmm... they were able to film the newscaster talking on Market Street in front of the closing Nordstrom mall without ANY homeless ppl or garbage in the background -- how was that possible??!!
They cleaned the area before.
Close the mall but open a new Ikea? BRILLIANT IDEA 💡
It kind of is.
Homeless people need furniture too.
And $1 hot dogs.
And clean rest rooms.
@@rnettles6241 Pimp yo tent
Good. I want everything to close and leave. The Bay Area has become the wild Wild West Gotham city with no Batman in sight. Nothing but crimes and criminals
BS, you hysterical paranoid. You're just parroting maniac Donnie because Pelosi kick his ass inside and out.
Batman got defunded.
I like how they blame Covid for store closings when nobody else seems to have the same problem.
Nordstrom also closed every single location they have in Canada , 13 locations in total, both their stock price and sales are down as well but they are not reporting this.
They weren’t getting customers in Canada. I can only account for one specific Canadian store.
No customers I hear. Besides, as much as I also hear Canada is a giant SF.
The lack of leadership and guts is apalling. " Homeless advocates " what the hell is this?
Bay area sucks now!
As business after business closes and leaves town while SF's leaders tell us things aren't as bad as WE claim, OR, that SF is rebounding, (from what?), the city continues it's collapse in plain view of everyone with common sense.
Peskin and the other "progrogressive leaders" continue to speak in platitudes, while never deviating from their agenda of totally destroying good governance, common sense public safety, and common decency.
SF is dying, but it will be reborn as a bastion of "progressive" ideals and democratic socialism.
I say build the wall around it.
When big retailers concede it’s not worth paying taxes for nothing…unfortunately families have different dynamics and less resources to move. 😢
Sad to see her go. My best friend bought her prom dress there... I bought my first pair of "adult" shoes there.
I hate watching what the residents have let their city become. We went in December because we still have a timeshare in the City, but that was our final trip. I do not feel safe taking my child to the city where I spent so much of my youth.
If anyone is interested in buying our timeshare at a "luxury mission district hotel," let me know. You'd be the first.
How much?
Currently $8g/yr with an option to purchase an extra week. We are probably just going to default and let them try to come after us. It'll cost more to sue than they could recover.
I am tired of hoping the city will return to sanity.
Timeshares are a big rip. I stopped paying mine and they hounded me for years but never got a penny. It took years for them to get the hint, but never took legal action against me. I think bc it’s not real ownership.
I used to love shopping downtown. And then they closed Market Street to autos and I stopped shopping downtown.
Running retailers out of the community's and the state these retailers are going to be missed.
no they aren't.. they haven't left the state.. they are simply online....
@HicSvntDracones Nordstrom owns less than .1 percent of the online retail market. But yeah! They moved to an online strategy and don't need their brick and mortar location that was there for 30+ years.....
@@mattf2146 Have peopel been shopping online for 30+ years? No.. reliable online shopping has only been available for about 10 years, and the growth skyrocketed after 2019... It is amazing how people are able to completely ignore evidence that is just staring them in the face as long as it doesn't conform to the narrative they prefer.
The deterioration and degradation of the American society.
few reasons WHY business closed but hundreds reasons WHY they left
Amazing. Blaming it on shopping habits vs. massive crime in the area. These stores seem to be doing just fine where I live with very little crime. No soccer stadium going in here. Interesting.
A friend was forced to close a storage complex in Tulsa after they stopped prosecuting theft of less than $950.
Thieves cut into storage units, on the rare occasions the cops showed up, they told the perps to dump
the stolen items on the ground and leave.
“IKEA opening is a game changer”😂😂😂