San Francisco shoplifters were seen walking out of a Walgreens drugstore with items they did not pay for — on three occasions while CNN cameras rolled.
While reporting on the shoplifting crisis facing San Francisco, CNN’s Kyung Lah noticed a man walking out of the Richmond neighborhood store with items in hand.
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San Francisco is an absolute disaster. Look at this Walgreens story. Even @cnn is covering it: pic.twitter.com/rCqoj5k6gL
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“Did that guy pay?” Lah asked a store employee standing nearby. The employee told her he had not.
Lah said she witnessed two other shoplifters stealing items during her 30 minutes in the store.
Stores across San Francisco have begun chaining up frozen food cooler sections and placing items displayed on shelves behind locked plexiglass. Staff are now required to help store patrons access any items they desire to purchase.
"Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They're usually hit 20x a day," one Twitter user shared. "The whole store is virtually locked up."
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San Francisco resident Richie Greenberg shared a similar sentiment with Lah: “It’s become kind of like a police state in San Francisco. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
Since the beginning of 2023, San Francisco has experienced was is being called “a wave” of retail closures. The city’s downtown area has reportedly been the most affected due to rising crime and high inflation, supply chain problems, and labor shortages.