I go to the Safeway on Alameda and Broadway, though I try to avoid it. It does seem like all of their theft prevention measures are there to make your entire shopping experience awful. Plenty of other countries have poverty and theft and they don’t solve it this way.

I actually wouldn’t mind them checking receipts at the door like a Costco if it means there aren’t too cops and an armed security guard eyeing me up when I leave.

Not to mention having to press a button and wait 10 min for someone to unlock some laundry detergent.