SF News Walgreens Shoplifter From Viral Video Pleads Guilty, Gets 16 Months In Prison The ride is over for the fellow who rode his bike into a Walgreens and gained viral video infamy for purloining a trash bag full of cosmetics, but his guilty plea and 16-month prison sentence are unlikely to satisfy DA Boudin’s critics.
SF News Video: Vigilante In Alameda Takes Down Walgreens Shoplifter, Claims 'Citizen's Arrest' A dude who witnessed some brazen shoplifting at a Walgreens store in Alameda on Saturday decided to take matters into his own hands and tackle the guy, claiming citizen's arrest. This probably isn't the answer, dude!
SF News Caught On Camera: Burglary Turns to Food Fight at San Francisco Walgreens ABC 7's Dion Lim, who at this point is essentially the station's Walgreens theft beat reporter, brings us another video of a brazen shoplifting incident that devolves into food being thrown.
SF News Yep... There's Another Walgreens Location Shuttering in San Francisco Soon Adding to the ever-growing list of Walgreens stores closing in SF, the location at 141 Kearny Street is set to close on February 22 — which will make it the eleventh shop from America's second-largest pharmacy store chain to close in the city since 2019.
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 State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five Guilty Pleas in $8 Million Walgreens-CVS-Target Theft Ring Standing in front of a CVS in Burlingame, the attorney general announced guilty pleas in what is supposedly one of the largest theft-ring arrests in California history.
SF News Two SF Walgreens Locations Will Permanently Close Tomorrow; Another to Cease Operating Wednesday And these three closures will come after the Walgreens stores on Ocean Avenue and Mission Street in San Francisco were shuttered for good earlier this month.
SF News In Holmes Trial, Ex-Pfizer Exec Testifies Holmes Swiped Pfizer Logo to Claim They Validated Her Tests Theranos sold Walgreens on their bogus blood test technology by claiming Pfizer had validated it. A Pfizer analyst says Holmes just did a ‘Right Click, Save As’ with the Pfizer logo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five SF Walgreens Closing, Company Blames Shoplifting A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
SF News SF Woman Who Coughed and Said She Had COVID While Robbing a Walgreens Found Guilty A crime that was arguably over-charged in the early pandemic has resulted in a possible 20-year federal sentence for one woman — a steep price to pay for stealing some stuff from a Walgreens, which as we've seen, is a pretty common occurrence.
SF News SF's Worst Walgreens Sees Fistfight With Unruly Suspect, Security Guard Injured What has long been San Francisco's worst Walgreens at 9th and Market was the site of a confrontation with an unruly man Wednesday that ended with a security guard going to the hospital.
SF News Brazen Walgreens Thief Charged With Hitting Eight Stores In One Month A suspect who was arrested Saturday in connection with multiple Walgreens and CVS robberies — allegedly conducted in plain sight of staff and security guards — has been charged with 15 counts of robbery, grand theft, and burglary.
SF News Thief In Viral Video at SF Walgreens Arrested After Attempting to Steal Again The bike-pedaling shoplifter filmed in a viral video that showed him clearing shelves at a San Francisco Walgreens was detained by police Saturday, when the suspect allegedly tried to steal from yet another store just a few blocks away.
Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Walgreens Announces Plans To Shutter 600 Stores, Likely Including Some In SF Following their deal to acquire a portion of Rite Aid's store inventory, Walgreens announced this week that it plans to shutter 600 stores, most of them under the Rite Aid brand, but including
SF News Two Employees At 9th And Market Walgreens Stabbed Two employees at the Walgreens store at 9th and Market Streets were stabbed by an alleged thief on Wednesday morning, police told Bay City News. The crime took place at around 7 a.
SF News Walgreens Is Suing Theranos For $140 Million Over Voided Blood Tests Walgreens is suing the embattled health startup Theranos over claims that the company breached its contract with the pharmacy chain after it was forced to void years worth of blood tests and give
SF News Hate San Francisco's Proliferation Of Walgreens? Blame Willie Brown According to the Walgreens "store locator," the drugstore/emergency cat litter shop/place to grab gum and milk has around 50 locations across San Francisco, quite a feat given our city's notorious opposition
Arts & Entertainment New Teeny Tiny Target Store To Open In The Financial District It appears that Financial District workers will soon have a new place to pick up stuff like eco-friendly cleaners, lip balm, and that pasta with the bunny on the box, as Target announced
SF News Is Your Neighborhood Walgreens Infested With Rodents? KRON4 Investigates. Several local Walgreens outlets are in the spotlight this week after the grocery store watchdogs at KRON4 News began investigating reports of rodents scampering through the aisles of cheap snacks, greeting cards and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Egg Sale At Allegedly Vermin Infested Walgreens Prompts Riot Not since the blessing scam tote bag riot of 2013 has San Francisco's Chinatown seen such a melee! According to the SF Examiner, the Walgreens at Stockton near Vallejo was the scene of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scrappy Mice Temporarily Shutter Chinatown Walgreens, Bakery A closed Walgreens is like a closed heart, a closed mind. Nothing good can come from it. All is bleak. All is lost. Sadly, that's just what had to happen for several harrowing
SF News Cookie Monster Sets Fire to $1,400 Worth Of Baked Goods A 29-year-old woman became some kind of monster earlier this week when she walked into a Walgreens store at Market and Third Streets, sprayed lighter fluid all over an aisle full of cookies
SF News San Francisco's Five Worst Walgreens Walgreens. It's a great equalizer. We all need toothpaste (well, most of us), Advil, Band-aids, tampons, and deodorant (yes, you do), not to mention hastily selected non-porn birthday cards and toilet paper. Thus,
SF News Walgreens Sued For Firing Diabetic South S.F. Cashier As the Chronicle reported on Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal suit against Walgreens on Thursday for firing a diabetic South San Francisco cashier, Josefina Hernandez. Hernandez had