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I'm not sure how you solve this. They stock products that are smallish, and easily convertible to cash, so robberies are going to happen.

The Devialet speaker in the article is a good example. Retails for over $3k, and weighs 12kg.

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It's probably impossible for the store to solve it, hence the closing.

This problem is really up to the city to solve, and it doesn't seem the city is interested. Gated communities and all that.

Like you do with anything else: rule of law and private property.

Robberies continue to happen in places with over-the-top rule of law.

True, but those places don't put up with the rampant public antisocial behavior on the streets San Fran seems to embrace. I've been around the world to many dangerous places for work and service, and the only place I saw someone take a dump in public on a sidewalk was in San Francisco. He was 3 feet from one of the public toilets the city had installed (this was 2001, I think they cost $0.25 to use at the time?) This isn't some new phenomenon.

By designing stores around that premise?

If you check out jewelry or other luxury goods stores, they generally have

- concreted in pillars to prevent cars smashing into them

- a combined doorman/security person (you know the type - 6 foot 4, tight suit, earpiece)

- an airlocked doorway (possibly even a locking revolving door)

Seems like you solve this by only having stores in lower-crime areas.

Seems like that's exactly the solution they're going for, since they're closing the store that's in a high-crime area.

Which now apparently means: not in San Francisco.

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