Posted on 04/15/2024 6:59:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
San Francisco has long been feared to be falling into a doom loop, a situation where taxpayers leaving the crime-ridden city results in lower tax revenues leading to cuts in services and rising taxes, making it even less desirable to live in.
It can be especially devastating when a community's essential businesses, such as grocery stores, decide to leave.
San Francisco experienced this last year when Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)-owned Whole Foods Market Inc. shut down its flagship store in the city after being open for just over a year, citing employee safety concerns.
Nearly 570 emergency calls were reported from the location in that period, including desperate pleas to police saying "male [with] machete is back," and "another security guard was just assaulted."
At the time, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Matt Dorsey said he was "incredibly disappointed" with the store closing.
"Our neighborhood waited a long time for this supermarket, but we’re also well aware of problems they’ve experienced with drug-related retail theft, adjacent drug markets and the many safety issues related to them," Dorsey said.
Now, politicians are attempting to fight back.
Dean Preston, another member of the Board of Supervisors, recently introduced a proposal called the Grocery Protection Act, which would require a closing store to provide the city six months’ notice and try to find a replacement supermarket for the location it’s vacating.
Elaborating on his proposal, Preston said, "Our communities need notice, an opportunity to be heard and a transition plan when major neighborhood grocery stores plan to shut their doors."
According to the proposal, anyone impacted by a non complying grocery store could initiate legal proceedings.
It’s not just grocery stores that have had enough of the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
San Francisco keeps circling the drain. With this type of ruling why would a business want to come to San Francisco.
They’re wanting to turn the place into a literal Hotel California: “You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”
Tell you what, if I owned or did business in California I would have long since gotten out, especially out of that rat’s nest San Fran-sicko.
Shrugging...
If you aren’t allowed to close, you cannot risk opening.
Gosh- that’ll surely attract new businesses to the area!
Nice.
Pure unadulterated crap. They can force someone to go bankrupt? Scotty, beam me up, America is lost.
That's the Supes' damn job.
It would be great if each store leaving would rent a billboard saying, “Thank you liberals..... BYE!”
Everyone will have to get in their Teslas an drive to Sacramento to get food. But if they take too long, someone will squat in their home while they are shopping...
Any grocer that does not announce plans to close before the law goes into effect deserves what it gets. I would announce the closing tomorrow.
Hmmm… this sounds so familiar …. Shrug.
should it look like this insane law might be enacted, every grocery store in S.F. should pre-shut down and move to adjacent towns BEFORE the law goes into effect ....
They so love euphemisms, do they not?
What could aptly be called the Grocery Store Threat Act becomes the Grocery Protection Act, as if they are protecting groceries. Affected Friscans (Friscans just HATE it when anyone calls Frisco "Frisco" btw) know better, however not enough to change voting habits or to demand vote security. .
Nearly 50 emergency calls a month. I bet it’s much higher when non-emergency incidents are included.
The city government can open its own stores. Why do these commies need free market capitalism to provide food?
The Government of San Francisco should pay for the business losses caused
by the government’s promotion of a Hostile Work Environment.
(And relocation expenses, too.)
As long as these corporations are headquartered outside of California, I imagine it would be hard for a California court to enforce their judgement. But hey, knock yourself out guys. It’s only the tax payer’s money you’re wasting.
Nazis did something akin to this with the Jews wanting to leave.
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