Black Lives Matter Activists Decry Closure of San Francisco Supermarket Plagued by Theft, Security Problems

‘We want all the new [city] supervisors to understand,’ one activist says. ‘We can have a beautiful relationship or a sour relationship.’

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A customer shops for meat at a Safeway store in California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The shuttering of a Safeway supermarket at the Fillmore District of San Francisco after it was subjected to rampant shoplifting and theft has brought scorn from local residents on the store’s parent company and prompted one Black Lives Matter activist to demand that a new bargain grocer be put in the exact location.

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