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This decision by the Castro Safeway comes less than a month after pharmacy retail giant Walgreens announced it would be closing some locations in San Francisco due to organized retail theft. One San Francisco Walgreens that was closed last year was reportedly losing $1,000 to theft a day.

"I think the last 6 months from what they say has been sort of - off the charts in terms of how bad it's been. It's sad, upsetting and frustrating." a Walgreens spokesperson said.

According to KPIX, Mandelman characterized the changing hours of the Safeway as an equity problem. "There's a lot of low-income folks, seniors, folks with disability, who rely on that Safeway and other Safeways around the city," he said.

In September, San Francisco announced a new initiative to crack down on retail theft. These new measures included increasing the staffing of the police department's Organized Retail Crime Unit and updating the department's reporting system to allow businesses to more easily report thefts online.

"Retail theft and commercial burglaries are not victimless crimes," San Francisco Mayor London Breed said at the time. "They hurt working families due to reduced work hours, shuttered stores and lost jobs. They hurt customers and seniors who are losing convenient access to prescription medications and vaccinations because of pharmacy closures. They hurt neighborhoods suffering from fewer local retailers and more empty storefronts."

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An unvaccinated nurse who opened a user-pay wellness clinic this week in North Kamloops says plans are in place for similar storefronts to debut soon in Kelowna and Salmon Arm.

Glenn Aalderink, a former Royal Inland Hospital nurse who organized a well-attended Sept. 1 anti-vax rally on Columbia Street, told Castanet he opened the doors to Ezra Wellness on Tuesday.

He said it's not a medical clinic and it does not offer medical care.

"At best, I'd say consultation. A lot of it is just we evaluate, we have a discussion and we see where we can go and what might potentially work," he said.

"So if you came in and you had questions, we would help place you or point you in the direction of what we think — collectively, you and I — would be best, through all modalities like massage, nutrition, naturopath, Western medicine. It's whatever we think would help you, even personal trainers."

Interior Health confirmed it is aware of Ezra Wellness, but a spokesperson said IH "does not oversee private clinics providing medical services." The health authority said anyone working in healthcare has to follow provincial rules — and anyone caught breaking them could be penalized.

"All individuals providing medical care in B.C. are required to comply with the BC Health Professionals Act," IH said in a statement to Castanet.

"If we receive information about a clinic that may be operating outside of this, we will report individuals involved to their respective professional regulating bodies — the BC College of Nurses and Midwives for nurses and BC College of Physicians and Surgeons for physicians."

IH said any concerned individual is free to file such a report.

According to Aalderink, Ezra Wellness has another location in Grand Forks and is about to open clinics in Kelowna and Salmon Arm. Others are in the works, he said, in Langley, Northern B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Australia.

The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives, which regulates licenses for nurses in the province, has concerns about misinformation that could come from these clinics.

"(The College) and other health profession regulators in B.C. share serious concerns about how the spread of misinformation by regulated health professionals about COVID-19 and vaccination may jeopardize the safety of patients and the public," spokesperson Johanna Ward said in an emailed statement. "We also have concerns about regulated health professionals promoting or sharing information about COVID-19 treatments that are not supported by widely accepted scientific evidence."

Ward said nurses can own and operate their own clinics as long as they follow bylaws, standards of practice and work within their scope of practice.

The College also recommends those nurses seek legal advice.

Although Aalderink's employment with Interior Health was terminated, he still holds his license with the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives. He is also trying to communicate with the College to cooperate in order to allow the clinic to operate.

He said there are at least 40 other healthcare workers that are willing to collaborate with him, including former Interior Health nurses, chiropractors and naturopaths.

There is no examination room and only space for consultations behind a desk, but Aalderink said he can check basic vital statistics and will be willing to make house calls.

"This is the first time I've been building something. Everything else is trying to hold my line in society. Society has proven they don't want us," he said. "(The College) can take away my license to practice but not my skills."

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