"T-Mobile departs 2-level flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square"

Is there any way we could get San Francisco's mayor and the County Board of Supervisors to run Moscow?

Russia would be on its knees begging for mercy within a couple weeks.

Actually it doesn't even have to be San Francisco. Maybe we could rotate the mayors and city councils of St. Louis, Chicago and Baltimore. I know, I know, San Francisco does have a certain vibrancy/ambiance that the other three cities don't quite achieve:

San Francisco Keeps Responding to Calls About Poop on This Street—San Francisco Standard, May 8

But maybe throwing Philadelphia into the mix would force Putin's capitulation a bit quicker than the Ukrainian's February Spring Summer counter-offensive would do.

From SFGATE, May 7:

T-Mobile departs 2-level flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square

T-Mobile’s flagship store in Union Square has permanently shuttered, leaving yet another vacancy in downtown San Francisco.

 A sign on the front doors of the two-level, 17,000-square-foot space at 1 Stockton St. now redirects customers to the cellphone carrier’s nearby stores on Mission and Market streets, as the San Francisco Business Times first reported....

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That's a big phone store.

The Philadelphia story (definitely not the movie) is a reference to the popular recreational drug known as "Tranq":
What is tranq, the skin-rotting 'zombie' drug? | Fortune

Mar 7, 2023Xylazine, the "zombie drug," has fully asserted its presence in Kensington, just as it has elsewhere across Philadelphia, the Northeast corridor, and, increasingly, other

sectors of the U.S....

When it shows up in other northern cities it is referred to as "Philadelphia's":

 Philadelphia's zombie drug 'tranq' already in NYC | The Hill

Sorry where was I? 

Beating the Russians, that's right. As we take 'em down from the inside we should probably teach the Rooskies some capitalism. West Coast style.

S.F. Standard again, this time May 9:

A Downtown San Francisco Target store sees at least 10 thefts a day, according to employees, who said products from cereal to nail polish and aluminum foil are regularly taken.

It comes as the city deals with the impending loss of two nearby Nordstrom stores closing due to "unsafe conditions" and the recent news of Whole Foods shutting down at Market and Eighth streets.

"I'd say 10 thefts a day," said one worker at the Target inside the Metreon, a mall near San Francisco's Union Square. The worker spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not have permission from a supervisor to talk to the press.

"Every 10 minutes you see it," another worker said who also did not wish to be named. "Look in some corner of the store, and you'll see people shoveling stuff into a bag—food, cosmetics."....

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Not that the Standard focuses on the negative, they also highlight the city and county's joie de .vivre.