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Rampant burglaries plague San Francisco businesses, compounding the hurt of the pandemic


Rampant burglaries plague S.F. businesses, compounding hurt of pandemic
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It had been two days since someone smashed the windows of her Castro district hardware store when owner Terry Asten Bennett woke up to an alert on her phone in early January: The store’s burglar alarm was going off, again. The one-two punch wound up costing her nearly $7,000.
Weeks later, Patrick Russell, a manager at the now-closed B8ta electronics store in Hayes Valley, was held at gunpoint before the assailant took off with two laptops. The store permanently closed the same day the robbery occurred.
On Feb. 2 in Union Square, James Dong, owner of outdoor gear store Last Minute Gear, looked at scattered glass on the pavement, remnants of the store’s front glass encasement, which had been smashed early that morning. It was the second such incident since he relocated from the Mission District in September. ....

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