The high cost of owning a small business in SF and the city's complicated tax and permitting processes are running him into the ground. He barely breaks even and in some recent years hasn't taken a salary.

"You're up against massive corporations like Amazon with purchasing power and the legal teams to deal with the city," he says. "They can average out our costs in other cities and cut their losses in San Francisco. For the small businesses, the bar is very high."

Another issue impacting the store is the neighborhood's population of drug users. People strung out on drugs have vomited in the store, thrown screaming tantrums and shot up in the bathroom. Shoplifting is a daily occurrence and employees working the early-morning shift have been assaulted. The store's back door is metal, yet corroding from the amount of human pee on it. On average, he says he deals with about 10 people a day who are on drugs in his store.

"I had a guy who chewed up his arm raw in the store, and I had to call 911," he says. "It took six people to subdue him and they had to zip tie him to the stretcher. This is happening in your business. It distracts you from what you're doing."

"You have more extremes in the neighborhood than you used to," he says. "You have a lot of people on limited budgets and without jobs and then you have the younger tech crowd who pay exorbitant rents and buy groceries online. I see the boxes. They read Good Eggs."