Sometimes, folks, it's not enough that we look up at the website banner and scan the URL. Sometimes we really do have to remind ourselves, repeatedly and out loud: This is Not The Bee.

Theft has become so bad in San Francisco that some stores are now padlocking shut their freezers and tying metal chains to ensure the doors remain closed overnight.

Video shot by one potential shopper at a local Walgreens in the city sees aisle after aisle of products locked away behind Perspex and glass, out of the reach of thieves.

Seriously. "San Francisco convenience store chains shut milk chiller in order to stop theft" is pretty much Bee territory. It's almost like Walgreens is committing plagiarism here.

Thieves have reportedly been "coming in to the store as many as 20 times a day to fill their bags full of products" and then steal them. So you do sort of get where they're coming from. They're desperate. It's either this or close up shop.

Sad prediction: They'll probably close up shop anyway. These people are pros. Trying to stop them just makes them angry. They could be stopped if the city government cared and the police could act. But the former doesn't so the latter can't. Those chains won't hold for long.

Sad times for a once-great American city.