So, how does this all work? The uber-Leftists in SF make crime, prosecuting criminals, and safety a low priority, along with allowing poop and drug needles in the streets, so stores are getting ripped off constantly and to a point that they are losing money. Customers and employees are in constant danger. And have to watch where they step. And the solution to fix this?
San Francisco proposal would allow lawsuits over grocery store closures
A San Francisco lawmaker introduced a proposal that would require grocery stores in the city to provide six months of notice before closing a store and to explore a replacement supermarket at the vacated location.
Dean Preston, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, introduced what he calls the Grocery Protection Act – which is based on a proposal the board approved in 1984 that was vetoed by then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.
Preston’s proposal would require grocery store owners to provide six months written notice to the Board of Supervisors as well as the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD). The store would also be required to post notices at all entries and exits as a means of informing customers and the general public. The rule wouldn’t preclude closures due to a store being unprofitable.
“It was a good idea in 1984, and it’s an even better idea now,” Preston said in a press release. “Our communities need notice, an opportunity to be heard, and a transition plan when major neighborhood grocery stores plan to shut their doors. Meeting the food security needs of our seniors and families cannot be left to unilateral backroom decisions by massive corporate entities.”
The city needs to make the city safe, and, if residents want their grocery stores they need to vote appropriately and demand the city of San Francisco do it’s job. So far, the citizens whining about losing grocery stores have only themselves to blame. Some are closing due to safety and money, some have closed because they had a better offer for the property. If citizens do not like them closing, well, they can buy the store themselves, right?
The bill would also require that grocery stores “meet and work in good faith with neighborhood residents” and the OEWD to find a workable solution to keep groceries available at the location. Those solutions could include identifying strategies and resources to allow the store to remain open, helping residents organize and open a cooperative and identifying another grocery store operator to take over and continue grocery sales at the location.
So, the people who have zero capital invested in the business would get a say? Several grocery stores have closed in SF over the past few years, and lots of little stores have closed. The ones who have stayed open have all sorts of security measures, such as putting items behind locks. SF must be hearing talk that many stores are planning to close. If they do not like this, let the city purchase them and try and run them.
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To comply with the law, the stores will be open with a staff of one person and nothing on the shelves for 6 months. The various governments think businesses are just cash cows to be milked to suit themselves. They cannot expect a business that is losing money to keep doing it for another 6 months. For one thing, it is a form of fraud to keep spending money past the point of insolvency.
Reminds me of when the city of Santa Monica CA decided that ATM fees were too high, so they passed a law restricting them to a token amount. Overnight, every ATM in the city was unplugged. It turns out, ATMs cost money to install and maintain and if the fees they charge are insufficient to repay that investment, no one will make that investment. There are ATMs in Santa Monica today because that law was repealed. In any given city, the majority of ATMs are owned by local networks, not by banks.
Another solution to comply with the law is for every store in the city to submit their intention to close letter right now, and post the warnings as required, even if they are profitable. Then they can have a perpetual “going out of business” sale, like the furniture stores used to do. They would be in business month to month for all intents and purposes. Hire all employees as part time and temporary with no expectation of continuing for another 30 days.
Apparently professor Democrats and the leftists know as much about business as they know about transplanting a brain. You can’t make a business stay open. All the business has to do is stop paying its bills and be forced into bankruptcy. When the mob does it it’s called a “blowout”. I guess when Democrats do it it’s called economic policy. F’in morons.
You mean this brain?
If the Board of Supervisors had any sense, they’d have had the police cracking down on crime decades ago, so that this wouldn’t be a problem.
This is what happens when oh-so-compassionate, civilized men allow the uncivilized to run rampant.
There was uncivilized men running rampant should be arrested and thrown in prison for at least a couple years of pop depending upon how many times they’re caught.
The oh-so-compassionate, civilized men should be taken out and shot. Approaching liberal created dilemmas from both sides will completely eliminate those dilemmas. Plus, it shows compassion for the store owners, shopkeepers and civilians caught in the middle.
Brandon says: The oh-so-compassionate, civilized men should be taken out and shot.
Typed like a compassionate, civilized Trumpist.
You still can’t recognize hyperbole or sarcasm can you? Man you’re illiterate.
Got it. Haha.
Like saying all Republicuns should be beheaded!! LOL.
Or all Trumps should be imprisoned!! LOL.
The lack of understanding of basic economics and business principals of the left never ceases to amaze. Grocery stores operate on a very narrow margin with relatively high costs, small operators have little in the way of reserves to maintain a money losing location therefore the ‘shutdown’ phase comes quickly. Large operators can hold onto a dying property a bit longer, but ultimately it will be closed.
Maybe Antifa, BLM, and the DNC will set up food pantries to feed their people.
There are two videos showing shoppers in England and Japan(?) where shoppers select their groceries on a monitor, then pay, then wait for their order to come down the conveyor belt. The good liberals running the SFO shit show should have to pay to have them placed in grocery stores.
Such stores will resemble those back in the old Soviet Union where people stood on line to buy from stores that didn’t have anything on the shelves and you took what you could get, not what you needed/wanted.
I also recall images from other low trust societies where the customer and store owners interact through a window and goods are exchanged for cash like a hostage exchange. Customer never enters the store. Owner seldom leaves it. And the size is restricted to bodega style since no employees outside the family can be trusted.