- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
It’s a tale of two businesses, one small and one large.
Cole Hardware was founded in the 1920s in San Francisco’s Cole Valley. The company now has six storefronts scattered around town, providing community members with all their tool and hardware needs.
Home Depot opened its doors 43 years ago, in Atlanta. Since then, it’s grown into a global empire, with 2,000 locations around the world and $132 billion in annual sales.
As San Franciscans grapple with conflicting reports about thefts and robberies in the city, we decided to ask a big-box retailer and a locally owned business about their approaches to property crimes at their stores.
It can be challenging to get big businesses to speak on the record about retail crime (and police statistics are often unreliable). In the past six months alone, SFGATE reporters have approached…
