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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,658 - Another San Francisco Grocery Store Closes Citing Theft, Safety
Description: Safeway announced on Tuesday that it would close its Webster Street supermarket on Feb. 7, a blow to San Francisco’s Fillmore and Japantown neighborhoods that have pushed to convince the grocery chain to keep the struggling store open...
The company said it was “proud” of its 40-year history in the Fillmore but that the decision to close the store was made “due to ongoing concerns about associate and customer safety, as well as persistent issues with theft.”...
San Francisco Police Department incident reports include complaints of frequent car breakins, assaults...