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RIP Beverly Hills: Video shows high-end retail stores now shuttered amid LA crime wave

• https://nypost.com, By Ronny Reyes

Videos posted on TikTok by self-proclaimed "Nostalgic Angelino" cody90210 show off more than a dozen Beverly Hills retailers and restaurants completely shuttered and not replaced by new businesses, leaving their empty storefronts as shells.

Some of the businesses include luxury staples like Barneys New York and Escada, with the once-popular brands having filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

Other big-name stores now lying empty include former locations for Chanel, Rite Aid, Barnes & Noble, Niketown, and restaurants like Chipotle and Starbucks.

The barren stores stand in stark contrast with the city's reputation for glamor and opulence, and as a place where celebrities, fashionistas and business moguls are regularly photographed by paparazzi.

Despite the many shuttered stores, other businesses have managed to stave off ruin, with places like Saks Fifth Avenue, Hermes and Gucci earning a spot in the TikTok account's "Best of Beverly Hills" compilation.

Stores that survived the economic woes during the pandemic, however, are now contending with a surge in crime that has forced Southern California law enforcement agencies to create a task force solely focused on retail crime.


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