'Moving all the Blacks out!': SF community outraged over plan to close Western Addition Safeway

Last Thursday, we learned that the only Safeway grocery store in the Western Addition of San Francisco will close.
Community members and those with the NAACP are speaking out, saying if this plan goes through, this will negatively impact the city's Black community with longterm implications.
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[@rhocke4590]

Don’t blame these businesses. Blame the shoplifters.

[@Reno420alex]

Yes the "shoplifters" aka all these mamas and grandmas complainings "kids and grandchildren" 😂 maybe they should have tryed being better parents.

[@blacksoldier.]

Tell that to Dylan Roof parents.

[@TimArcher-zl9sb]

Really? Tell Dylan Roofs parents to blame the shoplifters? Think before you type. ​@@blacksoldier.

[@user-bf4qz4vd5j]

They never mention the a hum..residents who are looting stealing and causing problems stop wide...oh nooooo...never tell the truth..so they can claim victimhood....

[@barbara7611]

​@@blacksoldier.Blame someone else when nothing else. Blame some of your people.

[@rbass7674]

Safeway has been there 40 years. They didn’t abandon the community, the community abandoned them.

[@manofthepeople2165]

Noooo! The looters and rioters were paid by white people, they do not represent the black community!

[@tonimartin4828]

It’s because of so much theft from blacks in the community .

[@Cornbread-gi6kt]

It’s the community that kept Safeway there for over 40 years. Can’t maintain a business unless you have customers. 🙄🤔🤷🏼

[@NiceOCGuy1981]

​@@Cornbread-gi6ktexactly.

[@ja01975]

BLM😊

[@Pantera-wu9ty]

Blame the liberal DA for not prosecuting shoplifting !!!!

[@0IIIIII]

Can you explain what the “liberal DA” did that you don’t like? As well, do you believe conservative DAs would do better? Based on what?

[@michaelkeenan3437]

Everything!!..

[@thelton100]

DA IS NOT liberal.

[@konos-p8842]

​@0IIIIII They're not prosecuting crime, so there's no punishment. People don't even try to hide their face when they steal anymore because they know they'll won't be punished for it

[@0IIIIII]

@@konos-p8842 proof? Do you have evidence? Act like you’re writing a paper in high school.

[@wonkylife]

Accountability is nowhere in sight!

[@faithismespeaks6848]

@wonkylife, Especially in Washington DC, the district of criminals. I also blame the criminal media for perpetuating all this constant chaos and liberal BS.

[@adambomb138]

It never WILL be with them either. Watch this- "Who's dem??" Cries incoming.

[@markstewart4501]

@@faithismespeaks6848 I honestly don't get your type...this is a piece on local government, a community, and the situation...you got washington dc criminals, constant chaos, and liberal BS. YOU are bringing that CHAOS to this video clip. Seriously, check yourself. Keep your ideologies...that, ah, I think I might agree with a tiny bit, but about a grocery store? WTH, you have gone full side ways on reality on your comment. Do you know the difference between local and federal government?

[@markstewart4501]

@@adambomb138 You realize this is about a grocery store, people that live in the neighborhood, and...the other facts surrounding the F"king grocery store? Are you 5? Seriously, where in the hell are you coming from on this video?

[@Brett733]

Democrats have been telling them for years that they have no agency because they are "oppressed" and therefore there is no accountability when you can blame bad behavior on racism. At least the pendulum seems to be swinging back to reality, at least I hope.

[@sungkim742]

The lack of community self responsibility is mind boggling. Instead of blaming their friends and kids for shoplifting, they blame the companies.

[@mykehunt2430]

They can’t except their communities systemic criminality so of course they blame everyone else

[@duckmercy11]

The community isn't responsible for crime, individual thieves are.

[@user-fo6cu2xv7q]

​@@duckmercy11why do they commit over half of all violent crime then? 🧐

[@Blingaling-qe2zw]

​@@duckmercy11 It starts at HOME

[@Reno420alex]

​@duckmercy11 those thieves became thieves because their parents were terrible parents 👍 it all starts somewhere

[@exxodas]

Black communities act all surprised when retailers leave after years of rampant shoplifting. 🤷

[@MrTweetyhack]

don't say that. they might not steal from your store anymore

[@Dimythios]

They won't change. They will continue to vote the way they vote.

[@karelglasner2673]

Legalized crime 😂 thanks Biden adm F for Failure

[@marksongbird7534]

Until the decent black community calls out the degenerate black community, it's going to continue, and get even worse.

[@adambraun8290]

You act like every one of them shoplifts. Because you believe that everyone is created equally.

[@stuartmcsweeney4440]

Stop stealing

[@williamkane6155]

Maybe people would not feel the need if things were not overpriced.

[@wesleyp3024]

they people who steal are not complaining, its all the people who dont steal that are complaining.

[@eastbaykidd8574]

@@williamkane6155 Maybe they wouldn't need to steal if they learned some marketable job skills?

[@thedieseldiet]

I love how there is no food deserts in middle eastern, Asian, white and Hispanic neighborhoods. It's nice to know that not all ethnic groups justify bad behavior by playing victim. ​@williamkane6155

[@neonnoir9692]

​@williamkane6155 irrelevant. We're all paying higher prices, they're not special.

[@laidoffjournalist]

The NAACP should open a grocery store in The Philmore. Too many "leaders" are all talk and no action.

[@bartonpercival3216]

"Fillmore" 👍👍👍

[@user-et5qs2en4c]

Great idea ❗️😂🤣😂👍

[@davebarkley8773]

Where are the black owned bidnesses?

[@bartonpercival3216]

@@davebarkley8773 If they are smart, they are leaving San Francisco & Oakland!!!!!!!! 👍

[@user-xk4vt9ye8j]

In Albany NY they opened a “community” market supported by government grants and foundation donations. In 9 months the place was bankrupt and the guy in charge was suspected of embezzlement. Now the politicians are planning on doing it again with tax money. I wonder who will steal it this time.

[@richatlarge462]

It's time for them to take responsibility and admit that it's the behavior of "the community" that has driven yet another business out.

[@jeffder7143]

Doubt that will happen.

[@vincentvanmeow]

They literally don’t have the cognitive capacity to self reflect

[@richatlarge462]

@@user-bx8uk7qr2f You're the problem. And thanks for introducing the part about black people being to blame. Meanwhile here's a thought: why doesn't "the community" contain some business owners who open their own small grocery stores to serve "the community"? Then no one needs Safeway, just as Safeway doesn't need them.

[@user-bx8uk7qr2f]

@@richatlarge462 The Problem Your Hatred Other Human Beings Something You Are Far From. I Never Said Anything About Black Ppl Being The Blame You Inbred. Obviously You Don't Have Very Much Of A Life Bcoz If You Did You Wouldn't Be Strolling Social Media Site's Looking For Things To Express Your Racist Views. It's Ppl Like Those Who Build Their Businesses In Predominantly Black Communities So They Can Profit Off Of Them & As Soon As They've Enriched Themselves They Start Looking For Excuses As A Way Out So Another Wealthy Company & Come In & Buy Up the Property & Build Something Where Only White Ppl Will Be Hired.

[@dontworryaboutit5751]

White flight is innate. Depleting resources of Black communities has been part of your genocidal tendencies since the ratification of the 13th Amendment. This is eugenics in motion.

[@RS-ui7pr]

Sounds like Safeway is moving to a safer neighbourhood.

[@chanhyupark6353]

it wasnt safe enough them, mate

[@tvviewer4500]

Once that building goes up there will be a Whole Foods a block away

[@scott83gmail]

Where is your proof

[@kek3908]

@@scott83gmail You Tube, bahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[@noonehere0987]

@@scott83gmailThanks, bot.

[@razzledingle]

Safeway owes these people nothing. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Safeway is a business, and it needs to take care of ITS BUSINESS, which it is doing by unloading this money pit.

[@williamkane6155]

Safeway price gouges and that is the business they are in.

[@jimmyjames8377]

U got that right...word gets around and zero businesses will be willing to move sf

[@BOBMAN1980]

@@williamkane6155 If they're 'price gouging' then you should be HAPPY to see this Safeway closing, and take your issue to the people who're complaining about it for being corporate shills.

[@hotfarts6731]

You can not blame businesses for leaving or shutting down. There is no business model that can thrive under constant theft. Rather than blaming the mayor or real estate developers, blame the parents of the thieves who ruined it for honest and hard working people in the community.

[@stpierreforjesusthesavior984]

and covering up for shoplifters, they know who they are but cover up for them bc they don't want to "snitch". So stop whining. Communities bring o much on themselves and then blame others.

[@striperking6083]

Blame the Governor for allowing the felony theft limit go to $950.00 He set the blacks up for failure . 😅

[@williamkane6155]

No one can live with constant price gouging either.

[@stephenthomas1492]

@@williamkane6155 - There is no gouging going on, it's called INFLATION. Just one more reason why the current administration is terrible. It's those voting blue who are responsible for high prices. Just HAD TO give money to ILLEGALS and UKRAINE, huh? Wonderful ideas on the left.

[@BOBMAN1980]

@@williamkane6155 There you are with the 'price gouging' again. Hey, here's an idea: Why don't you and a few of your friends pool some money together, and start a "non-profit" grocery store in this area, as well as others. If your products and service is of the same quality as these other evil corps, with the only difference being your prices since you're not gouging, you're sure to be a hit!

[@j.thomas7128]

Attn all community leaders: Your children are causing this! FIX THEM!

[@hjkjccdggjhvb]

u can't fix them no moe..

[@johnnypham2850]

@@hjkjccdggjhvbJust as you can’t fix the opioid addiction crisis amongst whites who are dying at alarming rates RIGHT

[@nick4088]

You can't fix what's not broken. Born like that.

[@mykehunt2430]

Almost hilarious when a communities systemic criminality let them to get on the news and bitch about racism😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[@johnc1873]

They are hopeless and will never be fixed

[@crazycris29]

Fascinating that everybody gets blamed for this closure except for the actual people who steal from it.

[@alexmendez3681]

I disagree. Blame the California voter for voting in these politicians that increased the stealing threshold. Blame the California Voter that was chanting to defund the police and forcing them to get the jab. Now you don’t have enough Police. Blame the voter for this mess.

[@alexmendez3681]

Blame the California voter for voting in these politicians that increased the stealing threshold. Blame the California Voter that was chanting to defund the police and forcing them to get the jab. Now you don’t have enough Police. Blame the voter for this mess.

[@mocheen4837]

Maybe the parents can teach their children not to steal. I knew this was coming.

[@MrTweetyhack]

@@mocheen4837 haha! that was funny!

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

And it ain't gonna stop...

[@letmelive2006]

Never ever take accountability for their actions. It's amazing to see

[@JustMe-vz3wd]

Yes. I would like to take twelve photos of their unaccountability in each months and make a calander with it "unaccountability through the seasons".

[@P2055516]

Funny how Bookstores seem to be immune to shoplifting

[@freebird7369]

Letting your kids run wild has consequences.

[@emilioaymat5651]

Don`t talk outta yer ass about what u have no idea--it just makes look stupid and subnormal.

[@adambomb138]

Exactly. Now they're starting to see the effects of their ways in a lot of places.

[@roberthealey7238]

It’s beyond just letting the kids run wild. Most of gen X was left to its own devices but it didn’t shoplift and steal everything in sight; because we would have been punished and didn’t have the victim mentality that millennial and Z seem to have.

[@freebird7369]

@@roberthealey7238 Cuz we knew our dad would beat our ass when we got home.

[@javyplayzz]

It’s the genetics bro

[@bigfatdavebigfatdave7395]

Why do they act so shocked and offended when they absolutely know why the store is closing?

[@Mstr.Nobody]

Well because that would mean being accountable...

[@CaptainBuggyTheClown]

"They" hope you know people like me goo through comments like this and if you have any public domain info connecting anything to yourself we exploit it and make sure your friends family coworkers know ur a racist piece of shit.

[@V0YAG3R]

Because that’s the pathological sociopath’s modus operandi and modus vivendi, how black gringo’s operate daily, 24/7, 365 non-stop against anyone and everyone who doesn’t look like them including us foreigners, minorities, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Indians, Whites… etc. It’s all about purposely engaging in psychological projection and deflection, they know what they’re doing! It’s digitally and physically impossible to deny in such a world today with so much access to information and news in real time by anyone, it’s impossible to deny the fact that their racial comrades and co-religionists are the ones behind these daily, systematic terror that shuts down stores and makes non-blacks flee(the white flight term is incorrect, it’s not only whites it’s everyone who is not black that flees) across the US, they know, they project and deflect, they don’t care, rinse and repeat! Their projective blood-libel against their victims is the cherry on top of the sociopathic ‘cake’ of their making!

[@V0YAG3R]

@@Mstr.Nobody They know, they don’t care! Black gringos either play dumb or they think they can outsmart others with their smooth talk, sweet talking, play-pretending, blood-libels, calumny, slander, defamation, psychological projection, revisionism and deflection, that they have nothing to do with such when they’re responsible 100% everywhere of the time in these such matters and especially in places where they know their criminal, terror actions have no consequences like California, Chicago and New York! They think they can fool everyone on Earth with their constant, permanent blatant 🐂💩, including us foreigners, minorities, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Indians, Whites…. etc.

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

Well they believe they deserve everything.

[@gothicwilderness]

I believe there is an American saying that decribes this situation quite aptly - fuck around and find out. It appears they did the first part and now are experiencing the second. Who would have thought actions have consequences.

[@jeffnoble9757]

There's consequences for shoplifting.I worked for a grocery store, once shrinkage gets high the store Will Closes and open in a neighborhood with low shrinkage(shoplifting)

[@paulskopic5844]

The community is angry that their favorite shoplifting venue is closing.

[@jimmyjames8377]

Sad ain't it that the community is being brainwashed again by liberal media and liberal local government.

[@daviddearmond4553]

Question: how is black folks robbing stores into foreclosures somehow forcing black folks out of the neighborhood?

[@UncleNiikii]

And if they can just leave how come they didn't leave years ago? And why would they want to stay? Go somewhere safe, and prosperous! Don't wait for fortune to knock on your door go find it.

[@tired7140]

It's called Black Math.

[@alexhegedus2588]

Did you not hear the end of the report? They will have to travel over a mile to steal Thats how they are pushing them out

[@_Dg242]

It ain’t black “folks” it’s the homeless and junkies

[@paulscountry456]

Its always racism, pull that card first to shift blame and confuse.

[@mattts777]

@2:25 seeing everything locked behind glass doors pretty much says it all. Enacting progressive/liberal laws lessening punishments for crime has been a disaster.

[@darkgardener9577]

Maybe they should have thought about that before pillaging it...... can't run a business if the "community" is actively destroying it.

[@kimmarquis2354]

The lack of accountability for the community robbing the store to closing is mind blowing.

[@lightfighter685]

It is mind blowing. When I speak on this I’m called a sellout.

[@billyvon666]

@@lightfighter685 I feel bad for you my friend. It's different in the white community. when we see crimes of whites or any other race we turn them in not hide or protect their crimes..

[@MushroomKing001]

well when they children get old enough to stop momma's free money, they still gotta eat

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

Hispanics Asians and Pacific ilanders are the thieves in that area.

[@darkgardener9577]

Is it REALLY though??? That a bunch of leftist who's entire ideology and culture is about avoiding accountability for ones behavior/actions and blaming the system/white males/het-cis scum and other hated groups like the "white enough" Asian and Jewish communities for all their woes and problems in the world...... are doing exactly that? AGAIN?? This is an continuous ongoing thing......and anyone who points it out is WACIST!! SF deserves everything it voted for, including this.

[@ChiveDumpling]

When your community refuses to accept any accountability and just plays the victim card lol

[@alexmendez3681]

Thats part of it. Blame the California voter for voting in these politicians that increased the stealing threshold. Blame the California Voter that was chanting to defund the police and forcing them to get the jab. Now you don’t have enough Police. Blame the voter for this mess.

[@alexmendez3681]

@markholtdorf56 Yea that true. It’s in the genetic make up of the California voter to not be able to think more than two steps ahead. I’ll say it again, blame the voter.

[@mocheen4837]

Always the victim and never accepting responsibility for their actions. What other outcome is there?

[@alexmendez3681]

@@mocheen4837 I agree. California Voters never accept responsibility for their voting actions or their “defund the police” protests. I have never seen a Californian accept responsibility for their actions. True true.

[@LemmeHoldaDollarMan]

Simple lack of evolution.@markholtdorf56

[@jameseddy4748]

They other day I was in a Walgreens. This lady walked in with her three kids. Two of her kids openly were loading up stuff into their jackets. This is one of the MAJOR factors why these retail stores leave minority districts... They should take the blame for this social behavior...

[@cristinacervantes1612]

why didn't you say something.

[@jameseddy4748]

I seriously double doubt you would of said something yourself.... Honesty here...@@cristinacervantes1612

[@freehaven1]

Saying something would be 'racist'@@cristinacervantes1612

[@cliffordyuen1156]

Whoa. Which Walgreen?

[@jameseddy4748]

There's only one type of Walgreens.... What's your point?@@cliffordyuen1156

[@MHWDWS]

It's always about someone helping them, or needing to do more for them. They are their own worst enemy.

[@hi-line8195]

the lack of personal responsibility in these communities is astounding

[@AV-xm5ln]

what communities?

[@2stroke438]

@@AV-xm5ln the worse kinds.

[@AV-xm5ln]

@@2stroke438 give an example.

[@morrismonet3554]

@@2stroke438 don't take the bait. He's trying to get you to say something racist to get you banned.

[@2stroke438]

@@morrismonet3554 true, its easier than showing any accountability for your people's shortcomings.

[@nz6241]

Safeway is not there to help the community, they are there to make a profit.

[@albeit1]

Just like shoppers aren’t there to help Safeway. They’re there to get what they need. Free mutual exchange, destroyed by thieves.

[@shyphyre]

Thus them working with shoplifters to close down their store in an underserved area, profit at any cost and you support that type of bigoty and sociopathy.

[@SL-eo5pz]

They also provide employment, but you’ll only realize that when they are gone

[@bobroberts2371]

@@shyphyre Any chance you can open a store? Seems that you would have an instant customer base.

[@MrDarthvis]

If the mayor wanted to help the community, she could open a government operated grocery store. But we know whenever anything is maintained by government…

[@ctwalston1565]

How about those who are taking from Safeway!? THEY are the ones responsible for the closure!

[@thomasvarley380]

So they basically want somewhere to shoplift that WON'T punish them . They should be speaking to their children , not the news .

[@xmajesticfaithx5587]

dont blame the company for their decisions....blame the shoplifters that made the neighborhood worse

[@shyphyre]

The companies pay shoplifters to do their dirty work. It is a tax write off and gives them an easy out to divest out of a minority neighborhood.

[@trollhunter8842]

You mean their kids and relatives.

[@scott83gmail]

Where is your proof

[@sp-wj6ef]

I always avoid that area. Never feel safe. I feel sorry for those who were impacted by this. But shitty neighborhood....

[@toddpoppleton5303]

Their life story. Blame everything on everyone else. While your people and culture just fall lower and lower

[@peterschmidt1453]

That shop leaving is not "gutting" the community, the community already gutted the shop.

[@Fashn4LaDieS]

Quit shop lifting, & teach your kids to stop stealing, then the stores will be able to afford to run a business there. No business can afford to give away food to $950. a day, per store, thieves. The $ has to come from somewhere. You brought this on yourselves, so I have no sympathy for you.

[@_ArsNova]

Crazy how this never happened to any of the businesses by the white neighborhood I grew up in.

[@UnstoppableYaris]

Why would a business leave a place where it is losing money and its employees abused? How dare they!

[@JohnSmith-ft4fz]

Lol. To be fair tho, that's not why they said it was closing.

[@JerryThomas-fg9ms]

because these entitled "community" members believe businesses are there to serve them vs being there to make a profit. they think they can keep stealing and that businesses will still stay. clearly they dont understand how the world works.

[@markdibble8840]

And then they'll be called racist for doing so.

[@johnnypham2850]

Really refuse to accept reality and inject your own biased narrative in lieu of the presentation

[@UnstoppableYaris]

@@johnnypham2850 Oh Johnny, my grasp of reality is better than yours. Keep denying the root causes of failure in black neighborhoods. Businesses are not obligated to lose money… Capitalism baby, what’s the whining about then?

[@TheOneZenith]

If you don't want businesses in your area to move or shut down, PROTECT THEM! Police your own community. Y'all likely know EXACTLY who it is robbing these places and y'all protect them instead. Well, these are the consequences of inaction. Learn from your mistakes.

[@incognitosan2681]

I feel you, but this report didn't mention that theft had anything to do with the decision to sell. Despite that businesses have to act in a way that's most beneficial to themselves not any random neighborhood/ community.

[@jamesphelps1531]

Perfectly said!

[@bf-696]

@@incognitosan2681Yeah "this report". But other reports do.

[@antrinh5525]

the report doesn't need to mention , we all know it's SF, heaven for criminals and crack heads.@@incognitosan2681

[@Danny451]

Snitches get stiches.

[@Wild_Western]

It's called economics and urban renewal and progress. I am sorry, but no one or company owes anyone a thing...that's what's wrong with today's society, everyone feels they're entitled to a living or otherwise, handout.

[@threestarsandasling]

Same thing happened to two Walmarts that closed in Chicago; the community was up in arms and were angry because they deserve convenience, a nearby pharmacy and employment, but did nothing about the rampant theft the very same community was committing. Their leaders, the ones they voted for, were screaming 'racism' and the stores were looted before they finally closed. lol.

[@user-sl8bg4zx7v]

Safeway is a business and not a charity or a free-for-all. The community should take responsibility for chasing them out and realize businesses need to turn a profit to stay open.

[@manofthepeople2165]

The looters are not black people!! They are paid actors who are trying to sabogate the reputation of black people in order to justify relocating them.

[@johnxgalt8312]

Even if it was a charity they would steal from it too.

[@MikeBulu]

The black community are the shoplifters that's why their blaming the mayor and Safeway

[@michaeltabanao8092]

Hopefully with the Reperations checks, folks can open a Trader Joe's

[@Chordonblue]

@@michaeltabanao8092 ...or a Banana Republic, since that's where this country is headed anyway.

[@quiltqueen4318]

The lack of accountability for RAMPANT SHOPLIFTING is astounding 🤔🤨🙄😒. I love how they immediately cry racism instead of addressing the ACTUAL ISSUE of rampant shoplifting.

[@thomasgirty6397]

I would like to check THEIR fridges for stolen goods. that food is going to someone.

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

I will be so happy when Jose becomes your boss. ​@@thomasgirty6397

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

​@@thomasgirty6397that area is White Asian and Hispanic and Pacific ilanders, they are the ones stealing them dry!

[@jumperstartful]

Crying RACISM has gotten them a free Obama Phone and paychecks. Lyndon Johnson was right!! Notice how they took one of their biggest THUGS AND MADE A HERO OUT OF HIM!!!

[@stpierreforjesusthesavior984]

Everything is "recisigm" for them. Can't blame safeway. They're done withe shoplifting!

[@AlbertBormant]

Black America: Offended by everything and ashamed of nothing

[@Takastand]

Well said 👉🏾

[@Europa1749]

There will be a lot more food deserts in America as more and more stores close because of shoplifting. People will have to travel further to get necessities and that will cost them money for transportation and a lot of time out of their day.

[@Dave17101]

Look at all the community leaders steeping up to blame Safeway for leaving. Where were they when there was organized shoplifting going on by their own community? Where were they when the employess were threatened by groups of shoplifters? Hypocrites through and through expecting Safeway to be their food bank and just suck it up as a cost of doing business?

[@Awscer]

Let's see their sons "who would never hurt a fly" pick up their groceries or medicine at a location more than 5 miles away

[@Bbcream342]

I said the same thing!!!! Where were they when people had picnics on the side of the store? I saw all races doing that!! Picnics with stolen food and they left empty containers and trash for Safeway to clean up

[@user-os4fd4yl8z]

Let crimes take over and the legitimate businesses have very little choice but to close up or move out.

[@asshat23871]

they like to feed the victim/race narrative

[@user-cg3bg3hy7j]

They are encouraging the lawlessness. They were too stupid to realize what the ramifications would be.

[@steveh5882]

All I hear is entitlement. They don't deserve a grocery store.

[@hjkjccdggjhvb]

they want their reparation check still 😂😂

[@symone3113]

The Jewish got reparations and so did the Japanese… so you believe the people that were enslaved for 409 years don’t deserve reparations? 😮

[@johnnypham2850]

@@hjkjccdggjhvbThey are getting their reparations if you would pay attention. Affirmative Action which benefited caucasian females is over and has been replaced with DEI so they will do to others what was done to them

[@johnnypham2850]

Who doesn’t deserve a grocery store? Bankruptcy filers?

[@user-fo6cu2xv7q]

​@johnnypham2850 blatts😂

[@kcMan7938]

The people being interviewed and the news team reporting on it both believe it’s racism , and not a business decision based on lack of profits due to theft is disgusting . What about those mom n pop convenient stores that close because they don’t support local businesses . They close and go away , because the neighbors are criminals

[@wolfgane1766]

What did they think would happen?

[@nitegoat1369]

The ”Black Community”, has only themselves to blame, for the store closure.

[@aloyisiuspeters8913]

Well, the absence of law enforcement plays a major role. Soros and his minions are also to blame.

[@nitegoat1369]

@@aloyisiuspeters8913it’s the absence of a DA, and judges, who don’t punish the criminals. But the fault of the crime lies solely on those who commit said crime, and their “community”, who unfortunately have made it culturally acceptable.

[@FlynnWilson-uy3kt]

True but people. Of all. Race. Steals

[@angeladavis2010]

AMEN!!!!!

[@meep2253]

@@aloyisiuspeters8913 you don’t need law enforcement everywhere to do the right thing and demonstrate integrity. The cops are only present once the crime is committed.

[@MatthewMorgan25]

Communities destroying their own businesses is what this story should be about. No company wants to be in a community when they constantly get robbed. It’s their choice…

[@roshelltannen9698]

They refuse to accept that no one wants to invest in their non-sense.

[@scott83gmail]

Where is your proof

[@bobroberts2371]

The community activists need to open their own store and see how long that lasts.

[@kek3908]

@@scott83gmail You Tube, bahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[@noonehere0987]

@@scott83gmail The news and the store.

[@owlcu]

You want a store to stay in your neighborhood? Stop stealing from it. Tell your "Brothers and Sisters" to have some class. The elephant in the room, my god.

[@user-lj3tq2fj8s]

It's sad that a few people in a community can ruin it for the entire community.

[@JustMe-vz3wd]

lol. a few people could not do that, bro. It is the whole community, partly thieves, and partly people who enable it. Even their community leaders do not condem or even mention THEIR OWN problems, instead BLAMING other people.

[@grant8917]

I hope this is a wake up call to the black community and realize that changes need to be made.

[@wealthintruth6227]

Obama's Change is taking effect....

[@angelwings7930]

Like that’s been obvious forever. But dumbness prevails.

[@mikepalmer2219]

Nope they will blame the “evil” white amen as usual. They will never take responsibility.

[@lightfighter685]

There are two types of Black folks. The lazy ones feed the beast and fuel that vicious victim nonsense. The other group is always shouted down and called sellouts. We stay silent and work hard without excuses, hoping the other group destroy themselves because we know there’s no hope for them.

[@davidjohnson4184]

Here’s one suggestion for a change…stop playing the victim!

[@albeit1]

It’s the “very human cost” of letting thugs run wild.

[@jcasetnl]

SF and Oakland seem to labor under the delusion that criminals just didn't get enough afterschool programs and bedtime stories. Criminals just need a big hug to get on the straight and narrow, y'all! For some reason these same far left voters can understand the greed of billionaires but greed from "regular people" must 100 percent come from some sort of trauma or neglect, and the remedy for that is to simply stop arresting them. The bay area is learning about basic human nature the long and expensive way what most kids who didn't grow up in an affluent, helicopter parent bubble learned by age 10. The saddest thing is the bay area thinks its naivete is some sort of virtue. To be suckers, to be lambs to the slaughter is somehow proof of one's virtue. Anyone who doesn't gladly volunteer themselves to be victimized is privileged and racist.

[@HicSvntDracones]

Yeah, you've obviously never set foot in this store, they have swat members, not security. Thugs don't come near this place.

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

@@HicSvntDracones How much do they pay for "swat members" ???

[@efunkyman6853]

Literally

[@d.fenestrator9529]

Well, someone's doing the stealing! Look at all those locked up aisles!@@HicSvntDracones

[@markpinther9296]

NAACP should open their own grocery stores. Just food. No alcohol. No makeup.

[@Izaya_Orihara]

"It's not helping" because you can't steal from them anymore.

[@susanreeder3435]

Stores that have little crime DO NOT CLOSE!

[@TheRazorTongue]

Not true. Target claimed they were closing stores due to crime but when someone checked the stats the stores that closed weren’t the high crime ones.

[@sinistereleven9145]

@@TheRazorTongue "someone" "stats", sure you were not told what you want to hear to avoid conflict.

[@rbzsfg]

Oh no. You mean the community is paying the consequences of the community's actions? If the community didn't shoplift, the community would still have a grocery store. And it didn't have to be mentioned. Pictures speak a thousand words. And pictures of rows and rows of products being locked up is enough evidence for us. Zero sympathy for a community that raises, and makes excuses for thievery.

[@QueerdoLoc]

If the community didn't run whites out in the first place it would not have been the case

[@jcasetnl]

It's not the community. Places like SF and Oakland are so soft on crime, criminals literally go there to commit crimes. It's true. On the rare chance they actually catch them, they're nearly always from an hour away or more.

[@kspice1005]

I call BS on the shoplifting, these store are self sabotaging in order to close and create food deserts. Another punishment for black people not voting democrat and demanding reparations.

[@MrLivewire1970]

​@@jcasetnlsomebody should tell these people we live in the West, not China. They won't find a Government owned grocery store here.

[@mattsmith4589]

YOU RACIST BITCH! Don’t you ever disrespect the elderly!

[@ladariussanders4278]

As a black man and a member of the black community it’s honestly quite embarrassing like bro y’all need to blaming businesses for not being able make actual profit in your community with theft and crime stop blaming others for our own bad behavioral choices

[@americafirst9144]

Why didn't you teach your kids not to steal?

[@PhyuckYew]

Two reasons why this place is closing. Shoplifting and employee safety. I worked at this store back in 2005 and had store items thrown at me. I quit around 2007.

[@chanandler4567]

Black axes?

[@mikem.2078]

Last time I walked through this store was in 2015. Someone dropped / busted a bottle of salsa sauce up near the front doors, western side. It went all over and I mean ALL over the place. I didn't see what precipitated it, but it sort of told a story of it's own.

[@LuckyBaldwin777]

Funny how the news didn't report that side of the story.

[@EnthusiasticHidingCat-rh9uh]

​@@LuckyBaldwin777 Right

[@MushroomKing001]

@@LuckyBaldwin777 they want all the soft hearts to watch and say , " AAaaahhhhh, those poor people"

[@NoName-cv1yp]

Folks you have gutted your own community

[@timlewis7218]

Safeway should just not charge criminals for groceries.😂😂😂😂

[@mkultra1204]

Tell the members of the community to stop stealing. Blaming the store is ridiculous.

[@leemarie414]

It's not Safeway's fault. It's a fact that the shoplifting is out of control and the law isn't doing anything to help. Same thing is happening all over the Bay area. Stealing eventually has a rippling effect on everyone.

[@randicook8991]

The fake shoplifting was the plan all along. I was an excuse for this situation to happen. Who wants to live in an apartment and pay 2500+ for a 1 bedroom apartment?

[@markstewart4501]

You went full dum dum. It LITERALLY doesn't mention any shoplifting...its a REAL ESTATE deal/SITUATION. Oh, you heard of theft somewhere else, so you thought it wise to paint a real estate development deal as "shoplifting"...hmm, a real estate deal where everything is going to get stolen. Seriously, you dum dum galore. You need to check out reality sometime. It isn't just you "knowing the truth", and everyone else is stupid. pssst, you went dum dum on this one.

[@swaters5127]

All the woke celebrities along with rappers and athletes should open grocery stores in these poor neighborhoods.

[@JosePerez-wl2tq]

What will assure that they won't get shop lyfted???

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

They know what will happen. They are hypocrites.

[@Pwl47]

Best idea I have heard here. Come Libs...put up or shut up.

[@mikegalvin9801]

Grocery stores operate on extremely tight profit margins. The biggest problem here is what is politely referred to as "pilferage". The fact that No One in this story has a word to say about doing something about that is a big part of why this management decision was inevitable.

[@TennesseeHomesteadUSA]

"Community members and those with the NAACP are speaking out, saying if this plan goes through, this will negatively impact the city's Black community...". It's their own people forcing the stores to close. Not one word about that.

[@rabidsminions2079]

The community needs to open their own supermarket.

[@thomastherriault8632]

They want Safeway to be their community food shelf, where they don't have to pay. A community store will never survive the ravages of the neighborhood. 👍

[@Bob-hi2xh]

It won't last a month. This community is only looking for free stuff

[@thomastherriault8632]

@@ericstandefer9138 Don't you know what the NFL stands for, it's "Not For Long" 🤷

[@patrickh619]

Never happen. They are too smart to steal from themselves.

[@Markwaltonn5860]

They would steal themselves out of business in a week😂😂😂

[@jacksonlee3771]

Don't shoplift. Even birds do not poop in their own nests

[@Bakedea87]

Exactly even some animals are smarter than that.

[@richardcummings7079]

It's not helping the law abiding people in the neighborhood, but Safeway can't keep supporting the theft of goods by thieves.

[@JamesFaye-lt4dv]

Its a business not a charity.

[@Zzues]

Blame shoplifters, not your mayor or who ever the heck.

[@jacoby1303]

People can’t afford rent and food. Blame the fat cats that destroyed the American middle class.

[@NoName-ux7ot]

And who do you think has implemented policies that allow for thieves to run rampant? The mayor is part of the problem, and so is Gavin. She is at fault, just as much as the thieves are.

[@onion_____]

They moved themselves out 😂

[@yayarea2415]

Yup , who’s really gutting the neighborhood?

[@Bbcream342]

Exactly! Safeway is the true victim.

[@David-ve8pk]

What did these people expect! 😲 A continuous beat down from their younger generation who thinks Safeway is a government giveaway! 🤭 Sheesh 🙄

[@LunaticEdit]

2:25 - this is all you need to see to understand why the store is moving out. This is not the mayor's fault. This is the community's fault.

[@LavenderApogee]

Tons of retail businesses are being forced to close their doors due to unchecked theft. But if these people have to travel a mile away, that's an outrage? No one mentioned the workers who will have to find work elsewhere. SF is 7 miles by 7miles with public transport. There are rural communities that actually have to commute an hour away to grocery shop and seek medical attention. Until the shoplifting is dealt with at home, this will sadly become the norm.

[@themoviebay]

Years ago I was a grocery manager. In Philadelphia PA in north Philly to be exact. And when I tell you the theft of merchandise is unreal please believe me. They steal anything that's not nailed down many stores close due high theft both internal and external. It's really a shame when the stores close because they can't absorb the loss any longer they blame the mayor city council the company that took thousands maybe millions in losses.

[@stevenphillips3466]

Was it those Amish looters again ?

[@themoviebay]

@@stevenphillips3466 actually no it was the people in the neighborhood. It was a mixed race area so it was people of different racial backgrounds. Nice try WS

[@lawren-hollienelson9948]

Those Amish looters are pretty crafty. If you don't hear the "clop,clop " of the horses hooves they gotcha.

[@kommisar.]

@@themoviebay I'm sure you got thieves of different backgrounds, but most were of one background and none were Oriental or Indian.

[@JYDIVISN]

That Pathmark in North Philly was nuts.

[@zyrockdaddy7060]

Maybe if some people would start raising their kids right teaching them not to be thugs and criminals and harass their community ,stores like this would stay open

[@Reno420alex]

Yes 👍

[@only_2_genders]

Oh no they have to travel a mile to the nearest store to shoplift!

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

Like you raise your kids to shoot up schools?

[@gdavid2483]

D.B.Cooper ur welcome

[@robsan9017]

Safeway can't continue to lose money with the ever revolving theft at this location, PERIOD. It's time for you people to start holding the "community" accountable and dispense with these excuses and ignoring the elephant in the room. Maybe then you might get a sympathetic ear.

[@ottothorpe9927]

Shoplifting by the black community killed this store. What a shame. Been shopping there for decades.

[@joecarey4356]

They never take responsibility. It's always somebody else's fault.

[@symone3113]

Stop using the word “they”….You never take responsibility.

[@johnnypham2850]

Just like those filing Bankruptcy after buying things they can I’ll afford and living in a mortgaged home they could never pay off

[@SeanOptimoa]

@@symone3113 No, it's they. The black community NEVER takes responsibility for their actions and expect handouts.

[@tonyrobles9755]

More anti-poor bullshit. Lets talk about corporate responsibility. Oh, what's that mean?

[@duckmercy11]

​@@johnnypham2850 FACTS

[@timboslice1979]

Good for these businesses for getting the hell outta there.

[@Cream1968]

Black shoplifters matter, did you see that everything was behind lock and key in that store…..I wonder why 🤔

[@064ddlez]

Noticed that it's never their fault. It's always, others need to do more for them.

[@richardchorley1593]

Reaping what they've sown . Not hard to connect the dots

[@duckmercy11]

Who is they? And what did they sow?

[@user-ys7ww5gg7w]

​@@duckmercy11 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-ys7ww5gg7w]

​@@duckmercy11 Thanks for the demonstration 🙂

[@duckmercy11]

@@user-ys7ww5gg7w you're doing the demonstration...of how much of a 🤡 you are

[@historylover1679]

You can’t blame companies for saying they’re giving up. They can’t stay in business where they are losing more money from shoplifting than they’re bringing in.

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

In my town they closed 2 stores due to Hispanics stealing them dry. How convenient they interview 2 Black women. Y'all believe anything.

[@Marylee-rw3mz]

Hispanics Asians and Pacific ilanders are the thieves in that area.

[@darkgardener9577]

That's racist capitalist MAGA fascist talk!!! LOL

[@judierenfrow8073]

No

[@ottomatic3123]

The kids run wild and the community cries that they should not be punished. How's that working out? Truly upsetting for the older folk who need a nearby supermarket.

[@greg3296]

Notice how they blame everyone but themselves

[@johndellamano6975]

I used to shop at this Safeway. The last straw for me was when I went to get some lunch meat and a shoplifter took it all and said if I wanted some I could buy it outside for less. Community members should be pointing their fingers at rampant crime and homelessness in the city, not the mayor.

[@cory5197]

Thank the community shoplifters. The community did this to their own community. Now they cry.

[@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi]

Ok I’ll thank them (I didn’t want safeway to be there)

[@mjphoto45]

BLM

[@DoobieDeb]

B.ame it on youself

[@spankyharland9845]

maybe the community should tell their young ones not to steal from this establishment.

[@ronaldpinard6285]

NAACP can use their enormous funds to establish a grocery for their beloved wards.

[@segalliongaming8925]

You can’t force a private entity to continue running a money-losing business in your neighborhood. If you want to keep business from moving out, much less attract new businesses, you need to clean up your own neighborhood.

[@scottmichaels6854]

The entitled attitude of these “community members” is the problem. No business should be forced to lose money yet that’s exactly what they’re telling Safeway to do. The thieves have this same entitled attitude. Rather than getting mad at Safeway, teach your younger generations that they are not entitled to anything…they have to WORK for it.

[@kaijukojin4371]

Exaclty.

[@HalfBreedMix]

You lost them as soon as you mentioned "work".

[@mikeg3728]

A culture that has zero accountability is stunningly childlike.

[@dentalcare1]

These ninjas are the same all across America. Blame everyone but "their own".

[@User-54631]

I have a idea, crazy one, just hear me out. If you want stores to not close, don’t steal from them, don’t rob them, and let the employees feel safe coming to work. Just a idea.

[@beth3535]

Jam-packed with ideas, I’d say.

[@Chordonblue]

That's so... BRILLIANT! Wow! Mind blown...

[@matthewyingling6490]

You reap what you sow. Stop stealing!

[@NN-sj9fg]

Nothing stopping Dr. Brown of the NAACP from opening grocery stores.

[@SylviaHolman-ef8fv]

I did notice all products were locked up. Not at my local stores, I can walk in and BUY whatever I need to buy, by myself, like a law abiding adult. Did this neighborhood fail to teach their community not to steal. I taught my child not to steal from stores and now he WORKS there, I am very proud of him!