SF News SF Man Charged In 27 Separate Walgreens Thefts In SF; Other Alleged Prolific Retail Thieves Also Nabbed The San Francisco Police Department Organized Retail Crime Task Force on Thursday announced the arrests of and charges against five individuals accused of prolific retail thievery in the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muir Woods Reopens Through November 1, Entry Fees Waived The National Weather Service is forecasting 20-foot sneaker waves and rip tides this weekend; the one remaining Walgreens pharmacy in the Mission has an average 45-minute line; and some of Muir Woods National Park’s operational partners pitched in to reopen the park for ten days.
SF News Castro Walgreens Manager Found Guilty of Assaulting Shoplifter and Lacerating His Eye A Castro District Walgreens manager who took matters into his own hands and punched a shoplifter, which ended up cutting the shoplifter’s eye, has been found guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
SF News Police Arrest Employee at Castro Walgreens Who Allegedly Stabbed Shoplifter In the Eye It was a violent morning on Castro Street Wednesday when an employee at the Walgreens store there allegedly stabbed a shoplifter in the eye during a street altercation.
SF News Alleged Prolific Walgreens Thief on a Skateboard Charged With 24 Counts of Retail Theft A 26-year-old San Francisco man is in jail after being charged with 24 counts including second-degree commercial burglary and petty theft, in connection with 21 separate incidents at Walgreens and CVS stores.
SF News Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.
SF news Supervisor Fielder Eyes a City-Backed Pharmacy Co-Op Network As Walgreens shutters more locations this month, the city is exploring the idea of a pharmacy co-op model to prevent “pharmacy deserts" in low-income areas, via bulk purchasing and independent pharmacy partnerships.
Business & Tech Walgreens CEO Admits Locking Up Items Was a Mistake: ‘When You Lock Things Up… You Don’t Sell as Many of Them’ On a quarterly earnings call, the CEO of Walgreens conceded that putting items behind lock and key has hurt the company’s sales, because no one wants to shop in a store where even the toothpaste is behind glass.
SF News Walgreens Closing 12 SF Stores In Late February, Here’s a Map Showing Which Ones are Closing Those 1,200 nationwide Walgreens closures are starting to kick in, and 12 Walgreens stores in SF will close in late February, including the one where Banko Brown was shot. The company blames high rent, but legal settlements probably have a hand in this too.
SF News SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000 Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.
Business & Tech Walgreens Closing 1,200 More Stores Nationwide, So This Is Not Just a San Francisco Thing After years of finger-pointing at San Francisco over a small handful of local Walgreens closures, the company now admits it just has way too many stores, and will be closing 1,200 more of them across the US.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
SF News CA Attorney General's Office Weighs In on Controversial No-Charge Decision In Banko Brown Shooting After being asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to review a decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins not to file charges in the April 2023 shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, the California Attorney General's Office has come back with a response, one year later.
SF News Walgreens Now Selling Cheaper Generic Narcan Over the Counter, and It’s Already Available The national pharmacy chain Walgreens has made its generic version of Narcan available over the counter, and it's $10 cheaper than name-brand Narcan, and apparently already available at a few SF stores.
SF News Civic Center Walgreens Ransacked by Shoplifters Sunday, Police Didn’t Respond for Four Hours Another brazen Walgreens shoplifting heist was captured on video Sunday, as burglars emptied the shelves of the Ninth and Market street store, but police did not respond to the incident until four hours later.
SF News Group of Suspects Ransacks and Robs Walgreens Store In Castro The Walgreens at Castro and 18th streets was robbed Tuesday night by an organized group of smash-and-grabbers who came with garbage bags to fill.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Walgreens Set to Close In SF A standoff ensued Tuesday night in Oakland after an eviction notice was served; a woman was rescued from floodwaters atop her car in Livermore; and a Walgreens in downtown SF is set to close.
SF News SF Supervisors Pass Ban on Security Guards Drawing Their Guns Over Property Crimes In the wake of April’s fatal Banko Brown shooting over an alleged Walgreens shoplifting incident, the SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on security guards drawing guns for property crimes. But it wouldn’t be a shock if Mayor Breed vetoed the measure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF News State Bureau Fines Walgreens Guard Who Shot Banko Brown $1,500 This is by no means the end of the legal recriminations in the fatal shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, but the guard in question has been fined $1,500 by the state’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
SF News Banko Brown’s Family Suing Walgreens, Security Firm, and Security Guard for Wrongful Death We figured there would be a lawsuit coming when the family of Banko Brown hired famed civil rights attorney John Burris over Brown’s fatal Walgreens shooting in late April, and that lawsuit is now here.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Walgreens Settles Theranos Consumer Fraud Case Walgreens has settled a case brought by consumers who received Theranos blood tests; the NTSB is looking into that small-plane crash near Half Moon Bay on Saturday; and Steph Curry just received the NBA's Social Justice Champion award.
SF News Walgreens Cuts Ties With Central Valley-Based Security Firm Whose Employee Shot Banko Brown Pharmacy chain Walgreens has fired the private security firm, Kingdom Group Protective Services, whose guard fatally shot a shoplifting suspect last month at a Market Street store.
SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
