Sue an empty store. There’s a good idea.
the only solution to a law like that is to pre-close ALL grocery stores in SF prior to the law going into effect ...
Simply state you are worried about safety, and only allow one single customer into the store at a time, to be escorted by a private guard/clerk...at the 6 month warning point.
Democrat trying to solve a problem they created by creating a new problem.
Yet, I'm sure that they never considered the ramifications of such a law upon those same "massive corporate entities" who would be evaluating the opening of a replacement store.
this is truly communist!
the nation was built on free enterprise, not puritanival sovislkism.
oh sure, tell the state wotkforce office, who hasn’t got enough to do now!
i hate to say it, but somebody ought to put this little SPIT out of its nisery!!
Grocery stores going Galt?
It is not the government’s decision to make.
Raise up the community in a civilized manner and the stores will return. It is a cultural problem.
The tighter the grip of government the more it strangles the business community. We are watching this happen in many of the blue cities. A feral population runs wild.
“How dare you not let us rob you, we’ll sue!”
To be safe, maybe stores should just file a notice every six months.
What will the city do, complain if you then don’t close?
Flashback: In 1984, city supervisors passed an ordinance requiring supermarkets to do as much, but then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein vetoed the legislation, calling it “an unnecessary intrusion of governmental regulatory authority.”
In her written decision, she added that enabling any supervisor to “act as a bargaining agent” with a grocery store “would only serve as a disincentive for supermarkets” to run their businesses in San Francisco.
Ahead of the city’s decision that year, then-Safeway executive Robert E. Bradford expressed his opposition to the ordinance in a letter, saying its passing “could discourage us from building new replacement stores in the city.”
What they really want is for looters to have plenty of notice so that they can get their looting done.
If this passes, every grocery store in San Francisco should close before the law goes into effect. If the law is written to take effect immediately they should close the day before the vote takes place.
Of course, the next thing that will happen is new stores will be opened with funds from Mexican cartels and with full approval of the same San Franciscan twerps who passed the new law. These new State/Cartel stores won’t have the shrinkage problem of the old stores because people who steal from them will be found floating the bay.
But your Queen Feinstein vetoed it then anyway.
National grocery chains should preemptively sell their San Fran stores to a shell company created by them (transfer ownership for pennies and dimes) and then have those shell companies invite the San Fran government to enter into partnerships with them to run these stores in ways that favor the customer (like grocery cooperatives are run).
Then the city will get bogged down with its own grocery problems. San Fran will lose huge amounts of money trying to keep these loser stores alive and suffer the political consequences when customers complain that they are poorly run.
To be called The Directive 10-289 Law of San Francisco.
Give them the government surplus food my grandmother lived on when she was widowed in the 50’s, 60’s and was dead broke: cheese, canned goods, peanut butter and lard.
Why target grocery stores?
Why not make the law apply to all businesses in San Francisco?
Seriously, they should ask themselves why grocery stores want to close instead of taking them hostage.
***ATTENTION SHOPPERS***
As of ________ our new store hours will be 2:30 am to 2:31 am for the next 6 months.
After 6 months this store will close permanently.
We do not apologize for inconvenience to shoplifters and criminals.
We do feel badly for all of our loyal paying customers.
Your government has let you down.
Lack of policing and enforcement has made it unsafe and unprofitable to operate a store here.
We will not be forced to loose money in order to risk our lives and livelihood.
Please learn to vote differently.
Store Management