Walgreens has announced it will be closing its 300 Gough store in my district, citing organized retail theft. This store serves important needs of neighborhood residents. Media reports have accepted without analysis Walgreens' assertion that it's closing due to retail theft. 1/4
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Walgreens has long planned to close hundreds of locations. In an SEC filing in August 2019, Walgreens stated that it planned to close approximately 200 US stores following “a review of the real estate footprint in the United States.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1618921/000119312519214110/d786644d8k.htm … 2/4
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So is Walgreens closing stores because of theft or because of a pre-existing business plan to cut costs and increase profits by consolidating stores and shifting customers to online purchases? 3/4
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It isn't either or, Dean. If you allow shoplifting to get out of control - as you, @chesaboudin and fellow socialists and progressives have - it will make it more likely for those stores to close.
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