The telecommunications giant is the latest major company to announce the closure of its flagship store in downtown San Francisco.
Business closures continue in downtown San Francisco as the city's retail and commercial property market struggles, with AT&T joining a long list of companies that have recently shut down their flagship stores in the City by the Bay.
The telecommunications giant has told the San Francisco Standard that it will be closing its flagship store in Union Square, in the city's downtown, on August 1 to better serve its customers. "Consumer shopping habits continue to change, and we're changing with them," Chris Collins, a spokesperson for the company, told the local newspaper on Thursday."That means serving customers where they are through the right mix of retail stores, digital channels and our phone-based care team."A pedestrian walks by a store that is closing on June 14, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
But the two stores' closures are only the latest in a long and growing series of businesses shutting down in downtown San Francisco as crime rates increase in the area. Out of 203 retailers present in the city's Union Square area as of 2019, over 90 have closed since the beginning of the pandemic, as reported by the
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