Whole Foods in San Fran is shuttering "for now" due to its confessed inability to keep workers safe from the addicts and bums who, with the city's tacit approval, behave as though the rules don't apply to them. I don't see how this can be anything but a permanent closure, because no state or city official will do anything soon to stop the troublemakers, other than make a speech demanding more free needles and housing (on top of the reparations payments they are already approving). What would you do about this problem, assuming you even see it as a problem? Whole Foods is owned by Amazon, so I imagine the AOC's of San Fran see this failure as a positive development. https://www.newsweek.com/whole-foods-closed-san-francisco-drugs-crime-1793547 For the record, Whole Foods in DTLA seems to be thriving.
My preference would be to tear down the Whole Foods store, give the existing inventory away to the homeless, and then let The People set up and run a free kitchen atop the ruins. It could work.
