Last month a Whole Foods supermarket in San Francisco announced it was closing a little more than a year after it opened. Unlike a lot of closures that happen in the city, the company made it pretty clear in this case that conditions on the street were to blame. The company’s own statement said the closure was to “ensure the safety of our team members.” Nevertheless, last week the San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece claiming there was more to the story:

When the Whole Foods Market at San Francisco’s Civic Center suddenly announced a temporary closure on April 10 due to unspecified safety concerns, national political pundits were swift in seeing this as a telltale sign of the city’s apocalyptic doomscape…

According to one person who worked at the Civic Center Whole Foods, “Sales weren’t too great for the supposed flagship store of the region: Numbers were low compared to other San Francisco stores.”

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