"That's when he sort of ran into me with his bicycle," said ABC7 News reporter, Lyanne Melendez, who took the cell phone video while she was shopping at the Hayes Valley Walgreens on Fell and Gough Streets on her day off work. She was not injured.

"It's hard for me as a journalist to say 'I won't be involved, I can't get involved,' I have to be sort of neutral, but this is also my city. I live in this city and I see this constantly. Not only Walgreens, but cars, and my garage door has been broken into twice."

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In the past year and a half, Melendez says she has witnessed three of these out-in-the-open shoplifting sprees at different Walgreens throughout San Francisco. "At what point do we say enough is enough, we want our city back," she asked.

Unable to justify profit crushing theft, stores are closing.

"Seventeen Walgreens over the last five years, almost every Gap retail outlet is gone, CVS is under assault," said San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai.