San Francisco's dying downtown suffers another hammer blow as Saks Fifth Avenue bans window shoppers from coming inside

San Francisco has suffered different rustle arsenic 1 of nan astir luxurious section stores downtown is banning model shoppers.

Saks Fifth Avenue successful Union Square has decided to alteration its customer acquisition by moving to 'appointment-only' this summer, according to KRON4.

Locals will person to pre-book appointments astatine nan shop located on 384 Post Street from August 28.

Customers tin nary longer locomotion successful and browse nan luxury items, according to a institution spokesman. 

It comes arsenic areas successful San Francisco have go known for their squalor and misery - truthful overmuch truthful that local businesses are incapable to enlistee unit and residents person felt forced to flee.

The high-end luxury clothing institution said it is looking for 'innovative ways to optimize (their) shop acquisition to lucifer luxury consumers' evolving expectations.'

It follows Saks Fifth Avenue stores successful Palo Alto and Napa which person already go appointment-only stores successful downtown San Francisco. 

Layoffs are expected to impact Saks Fifth Avenue labor successful Union Square, according to nan San Francisco Chronicle.

But nan number of workers who will beryllium affected is unknown.

The Saks Fifth Avenue Union Square shop offers in-store individual styling, alterations and complementary beauty services.

Customers person been encouraged to book appointments connected its website.

'We look guardant to serving our San Francisco customers pinch this caller experience,' a spokesperson for nan institution said. 

The emergence successful nan number of homeless, now astir 8,300 people, has brought pinch it a myriad of different associated problems filling nan sidewalks pinch forbidden supplier dealers, fentanyl users and each information convulsive and intimidating behaviour adjacent to nan shelter encampments. 

Prime existent property was erstwhile location to outlets including Uniqlo, H&M, Rasputin Records, and Lush, but each person vanished successful a metropolis halfway plagued by crime, narcotics and homelessness.

The unit exodus is mirrored successful adjacent streets pinch 22 retired of 33 stores now vacant successful a three-block conception of Powell Street from Market Street to Union Square, according to a study by nan SF Chronicle.

In December 2022, a national magistrate judge prevented nan metropolis of San Francisco from clearing bum tents though it was not banned from sweeping encampments.

The judge ordered metropolis officials to extremity forcing bum group from nationalist camping sites unless they person been offered due shelter indoors.

But San Francisco Mayor London Breed has revealed nan metropolis is group to return a 'very aggressive' attack to region encampments from nan streets which person blighted nan City by nan Bay for nan past 4 years.