SF News Retail Theft Crackdown Targeting Safeway Stores, Walgreens In SF Yields 61 Arrests San Francisco police have just announced dozens of arrests of retail-theft suspects in what they're calling a "blitz" operation aimed at curbing shoplifting in the city from several stores where they say it is rampant.
SF Politics New California Bill Would Eliminate or Severely Curtail Self-Checkout, In Hopes of Reducing Shoplifting A SoCal state Senator is pushing a new bill that would eliminate self-checkout from many stores in California, under the reasoning that self-checkout is responsible for a whole lot of shoplifting, and to keep more human cashiers employed.
SF News Safeway Fires 22-Year Veteran Employee For Thwarting a Shoplifter, Then Denies Unemployment Claim A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
SF News The Drive-Thru ATM at Diamond Heights Plaza is Gone, Because Someone Tried to Steal It A recent attempt to rip the ATM out of the parking lot at the Diamond Heights Safeway was unsuccessful, but the thieves damaged the machine so badly it had to be removed. Yet Bank of America insists they will replace the ATM.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway Delays Closing Until 2025 Responding to outcry from the community and clearly some pressure from the city, Safeway now says it will keep its Fillmore District store open until early next year (at least).
SF News Can City Hall Get Safeway to Stick Around Longer In the Fillmore? They're Going to Try As expected, SF Supervisor Dean Preston made a move at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting to begin a process of cajoling Safeway not to shutter its 40-year-old grocery store in the Fillmore District, at least not yet.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested After Alleged Armed Robbery at Santa Rosa Safeway, High-Speed Chase Down 101 Three men in their 20s surrendered to police after leading them on a high-speed chase for miles down Highway 101 Thursday night, following an alleged armed robbery at a Safeway store in Santa
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed In Castro Safeway Parking Lot A fatal stabbing occurred Tuesday evening in the notoriously sketchy parking lot of the Castro Safeway shopping plaza.
SF News Shooting In Castro Safeway Parking Lot Injured 85-Year-Old Woman Sitting In Nearby Restaurant A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
SF News Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
SF News [Update] ABC 7 Says Teen Carjacking Suspect Has Charges Dropped, But That Is Deemed False Charges made against a minor thought to be involved in an attempted robbery and carjacking of a 75-year-old San Francisco woman were said to be dropped by District Attorney Chesa Boudin over a "lack of DNA evidence." But that reporting has since been challenged.
SF News Students and Teachers Protest at Castro Safeway After Fifth-Grader Gets Racially Profiled There was a kid-led march on Wednesday to protest the treatment of a San Francisco fifth-grader who was accused of stealing a sandwich at the Safeway on Market and Church streets.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested In Attempted Carjacking and Assault on Senior Citizen at SF Safeway A 16-year-old San Leandro girl has been arrested and two other teen suspects are being sought in an attempted robbery and carjacking in San Francisco's Inner Richmond last week in which an elderly woman was injured and a good Samaritan intervened.
SF News Transient Suspect Just Let Out of Jail Allegedly Attacks Three People at East Bay Safeway A suspect is in custody for the second time in 24 hours after three apparently unprovoked assaults at a Safeway store in Fremont on Monday afternoon.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 51 Infected At Safeway Distribution Hub A total of 51 people have been infected at Safeway's massive distribution center in Tracy, a freight train derailed in Emeryville yesterday, and experts are questioning the conclusions of that Stanford anitbody prevalence study.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Safeway, Target, and Whole Foods Offering 'Senior Hours' For Older Shoppers Bay Area grocery stores and others are beginning to do their part in allowing senior citizens to shop free and clear of younger people who could be infected with the coronavirus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Andronico's Market Coming To a Long-Ago Safeway Next To Seacliff A grocery store property in the Outer Richmond that tried to go down-market as a Fresh & Easy location a few years ago is going to pivot to an upscale clientele as Safeway plans to put an Andronico's there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Fewer Calls For Off-Duty Cops To Guard Safeways Following Attack On Employee Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer was calling Wednesday for Safeway corporate to step up and do something more "proactive" about security at their San Francisco stores, following two violent incidents involving shoplifters attacking store
SF News Safeway Security Guard Fights For Life After Dog Attack, Stabbing An early-morning incident at a San Francisco Safeway grocery store left a security guard seriously injured — stabbed by a robbery suspect, as well as bitten by the alleged shoplifter's dog. San Francisco Police
SF News Two Arrested After Brawl At Ocean Beach Safeway An allegedly violent shoplifting team was taken into custody Sunday, after a showdown at one of San Francisco's most troubled Safeway grocery stores. According to the San Francisco Police Department, officers were called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Listeria Worries Prompt Massive Recall Of Trader Joe's, Safeway Vegetables If you picked up some vegetables in the past few weeks or so, then you should double check to see if your purchases ended up in this massive recall. Mann Packing in Salinas
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Safeway Manager Does Reddit AMA, Explains Why Self-Checkout System Is So Bad And Lines Are Always Long An anonymous "mid-level manager" at a Bay Area Safeway store did a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, and in it he admits that he's baffled at the choices Safeway corporate makes when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF News Gang Beats And Robs Man In Front Of Ocean Beach Safeway A man was rushed to the hospital Wednesday night, the victim of an attack by a group of men in front of the Safeway grocery store near Ocean Beach. Police say that the
