Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

BillyGr
Store Manager
Store Manager
Posts: 1579
Joined: October 5th, 2010, 7:33 pm
Been thanked: 58 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by BillyGr »

storewanderer wrote: March 6th, 2022, 11:19 am
If you are an honest customer who does not plan to engage in theft, you do not need to bring a reusable bag or backpack into a retail store. You can leave it at the door or leave it in your vehicle/pocket and keep it there during the duration of your shopping. I suppose the other option would be that you require the customer to use a cart or basket while in the store and the reusable bag is stored on a little shelf attached to the cart/basket, folded or something, and cannot be taken out of there until checkout.
Those of us who are perfectly honest have a GREAT reason to bring them into the store - why should we be FORCED to PAY for other bags when we have perfectly useful ones? (and I can't say for everyone, but I have a large quantity of the reusable ones and most were obtained at no cost over time - store promotions, people looking for donations etc.).
They can sit in the cart just fine and cause ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES - even be carried around with NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER when getting just a few items and not using a cart/basket!!!

That's why the laws in this country are INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY, not ASSUMED GUILTY until proven innocent as you seem to think - go back to doing it that way.

Start stopping anyone walking out with a bag and no receipt to prove they paid or not going through a checkout with a bag full of stuff and stop annoying those who aren't doing anything wrong and these problems will disappear, instead of being so afraid of some frivolous lawsuit (since if you stop someone who is guilty they have no cause to sue anyway)!
storewanderer
Posts: 14379
Joined: February 23rd, 2009, 3:54 pm
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 298 times
Contact:
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by storewanderer »

BillyGr wrote: March 13th, 2022, 5:28 am


Those of us who are perfectly honest have a GREAT reason to bring them into the store - why should we be FORCED to PAY for other bags when we have perfectly useful ones? (and I can't say for everyone, but I have a large quantity of the reusable ones and most were obtained at no cost over time - store promotions, people looking for donations etc.).
They can sit in the cart just fine and cause ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES - even be carried around with NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER when getting just a few items and not using a cart/basket!!!

That's why the laws in this country are INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY, not ASSUMED GUILTY until proven innocent as you seem to think - go back to doing it that way.

Start stopping anyone walking out with a bag and no receipt to prove they paid or not going through a checkout with a bag full of stuff and stop annoying those who aren't doing anything wrong and these problems will disappear, instead of being so afraid of some frivolous lawsuit (since if you stop someone who is guilty they have no cause to sue anyway)!
Then you won't have a store there to shop anymore. The retailers can't seem to get control over the theft situation. It just gets worse and worse. The thieves take over, the retailer eventually says that is it, we cannot sustain the theft costs anymore, and the "honest" customers lose that store.

The real problem is shopping into the bags. Sitting in a cart in theory should not be an issue. The thieves also don't always want to touch a cart because the cart can be evidence with fingerprints (with all the people who use a cart, not really clear how much use that is, but you will notice there is a common trend among shoplifters to NOT use a cart). That is another reason why the shoplifters love reusable bags so much. They can come in with them and easily stuff them full. Normalizing reusable bags allows the shoplifters to "blend in" with other customers.
BillyGr
Store Manager
Store Manager
Posts: 1579
Joined: October 5th, 2010, 7:33 pm
Been thanked: 58 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by BillyGr »

storewanderer wrote: March 13th, 2022, 12:03 pm
BillyGr wrote: March 13th, 2022, 5:28 am


Those of us who are perfectly honest have a GREAT reason to bring them into the store - why should we be FORCED to PAY for other bags when we have perfectly useful ones? (and I can't say for everyone, but I have a large quantity of the reusable ones and most were obtained at no cost over time - store promotions, people looking for donations etc.).
They can sit in the cart just fine and cause ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES - even be carried around with NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER when getting just a few items and not using a cart/basket!!!

That's why the laws in this country are INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY, not ASSUMED GUILTY until proven innocent as you seem to think - go back to doing it that way.

Start stopping anyone walking out with a bag and no receipt to prove they paid or not going through a checkout with a bag full of stuff and stop annoying those who aren't doing anything wrong and these problems will disappear, instead of being so afraid of some frivolous lawsuit (since if you stop someone who is guilty they have no cause to sue anyway)!
Then you won't have a store there to shop anymore. The retailers can't seem to get control over the theft situation. It just gets worse and worse. The thieves take over, the retailer eventually says that is it, we cannot sustain the theft costs anymore, and the "honest" customers lose that store.

The real problem is shopping into the bags. Sitting in a cart in theory should not be an issue. The thieves also don't always want to touch a cart because the cart can be evidence with fingerprints (with all the people who use a cart, not really clear how much use that is, but you will notice there is a common trend among shoplifters to NOT use a cart). That is another reason why the shoplifters love reusable bags so much. They can come in with them and easily stuff them full. Normalizing reusable bags allows the shoplifters to "blend in" with other customers.
IF they follow what I said the theft will stop (or those doing it will be caught, thus not getting away with it) so the store can easily remain open. It's when they refuse to do anything to those actually breaking the laws that it becomes a problem.

In terms of the bags, most people aren't using them in the stores to shop or walking in with bags already full of items, so when you see people with those that you watch them more carefully. Might still spot an occasional customer, but they will go to a checkout and then you know they aren't an issue, just stopping the ones who attempt to leave without doing so (since you know they have not paid for what is in their bags).
User avatar
norcalriteaidclerk
Assistant Store Manager
Assistant Store Manager
Posts: 542
Joined: August 22nd, 2010, 1:01 am
Location: 916/279 area code complex
Has thanked: 63 times
Been thanked: 42 times
Contact:
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by norcalriteaidclerk »

It's not necessarily just reusable bags:ORC boosters have been known to swipe larger gift bags from the greeting card aisle and load them with the real loot before their run-outs.Yes, I have personally seen this happen.

Sent from my SM-G781U using Tapatalk

For your life,Thrifty and Payless have got it.
storewanderer
Posts: 14379
Joined: February 23rd, 2009, 3:54 pm
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 298 times
Contact:
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by storewanderer »

norcalriteaidclerk wrote: July 18th, 2022, 2:53 pm It's not necessarily just reusable bags:ORC boosters have been known to swipe larger gift bags from the greeting card aisle and load them with the real loot before their run-outs.Yes, I have personally seen this happen.

Sent from my SM-G781U using Tapatalk
My favorite is the one I saw who took a greeting card bag (biggest one) and threw a bunch of glass bottles of liquor into it. Of course it didn't hold and he was dragging it close to the ground for a while, eventually all of the bottles fell out and most shattered in the parking lot.
J-Man
Personnel Manager
Personnel Manager
Posts: 296
Joined: April 10th, 2011, 4:14 pm
Been thanked: 17 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by J-Man »

Judge rules Walgreen's helped fuel SF's opioid crisis.
Walgreens helped fuel the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by shipping thousands of "suspicious orders" of prescription drugs to its pharmacies, a federal judge ruled.

More than 100 million prescription opioid pills were dispensed by Walgreens in the city between 2006 and 2020, and during that time the pharmacy giant failed to investigate thousands of questionable orders, the judge wrote in his opinion in a lawsuit filed by San Francisco against major prescription drug sellers.
Alpha8472
Posts: 3929
Joined: February 24th, 2009, 8:55 pm
Been thanked: 79 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by Alpha8472 »

San Francisco blames Walgreens for filling opioid prescriptions and claims that Walgreens was encouraging drug abuse.

Now San Francisco is talking about opening official safe injection sites so that drug users can use drugs in a safe supervised environment. Is this not encouraging drug abuse?

The Tenderloin Center run by the city had a fenced in patio obscured by tarps where addicts were allowed to use drugs. It was a safe consumption site in violation of state and federal laws.
storewanderer
Posts: 14379
Joined: February 23rd, 2009, 3:54 pm
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 298 times
Contact:
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by storewanderer »

In this type of a toxic environment like San Francisco has become, like a toxic marriage, it seems you can just do no right. If they had refused to fill the prescriptions, you'd have seen a public outcry about that. Looks more like a government is looking for a scapegoat to assess a fine against and Walgreens being the leading pharmacy chain in San Francisco got to be the target.

Maybe Walgreens can work out a deal with San Francisco to let the city move into the closed stores and open these "safe injection sites."
veteran+
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor
Posts: 2234
Joined: January 3rd, 2015, 7:53 am
Has thanked: 1204 times
Been thanked: 72 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by veteran+ »

Alpha8472 wrote: August 11th, 2022, 12:32 am San Francisco blames Walgreens for filling opioid prescriptions and claims that Walgreens was encouraging drug abuse.

Now San Francisco is talking about opening official safe injection sites so that drug users can use drugs in a safe supervised environment. Is this not encouraging drug abuse?

The Tenderloin Center run by the city had a fenced in patio obscured by tarps where addicts were allowed to use drugs. It was a safe consumption site in violation of state and federal laws.
Actually, no, it does not encourage drug abuse. There have been many studies on this.
Alpha8472
Posts: 3929
Joined: February 24th, 2009, 8:55 pm
Been thanked: 79 times
Status: Offline

Re: Walgreens Closures Continue in San Francisco

Post by Alpha8472 »

San Francisco has a very negative view among many people today. These safe injection sites might draw more drug users to the city and there probably won't be room for every drug user. The city is dealing with a migration of drug users from all over the state and even the rest of the country due to San Francisco's policies.
Post Reply