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But today, Adam, we've been hearing extremely frantic reports from the West Coast, namely

the Bay Area.

We've been hearing Adam that San Francisco has an out of control shoplifting epidemic.

Yeah, so the New York Times ran a headline on May 22nd with the headline quote, San Francisco

shoplifting epidemic in which they detailed the out of control rise of shoplifting in San

Francisco with the subhead, the mundane crime of shoplifting has spent out of control

in San Francisco forcing some chains to close their stores.

And the article would go on with some anecdotal tale about the person writing the article

of being in San Francisco in 2016 at a Walgreens in North Beach watching people just grab

beef jerky and walk out.

And then he said he went to a safe way next door and quote for some reason, I saw him

in stuffing three bottles of wine into his backpack and walking casually towards the exit.

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