Posted on 08/21/2023 12:16:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
An iconic retail store in San Francisco may close its doors after 160 years after its CEO warned the deteriorating conditions are making the city “unlivable.”
San Francisco retailer Gumps CEO John Chachas told the host of the Fox program “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that high crime and rampant public drug is out of hand.
“It’s a sad state of affairs,” Mr. Challas told MacCallum.
“I spoke to a customer today who’s come to us for 50 consecutive Christmases and who won’t come back because the city is in a difficult and awfully dirty condition.”
Gumps’ CEO said conditions on the streets of the city deter potential tourists.
“[I]f you can’t get around and when you’re trying to walk the streets, you step over needles and human waste and often bodies on the streets, it makes it an unworkable business environment,” Challas continued.
“[E]mpty offices on the one hand, and that element on the other makes for an unworkable business center,” he added.
“I think it can be fixed. I hope it can be fixed. I do. I do have ideas of how to fix it, but unless politicians change their point of view about this, it’s a very, very tough thing.”
MacCallum appeared shocked that Mayor London Breed and Governor Gavin Newsome, D-Calif., were not taking action to keep businesses in the city.
“I’ve heard by email from a couple of the members of the Board of Supervisors who I think are really chagrined at this kind of news,” responded the CEO.
“I have in the past spoken to representatives of Mayor Breed’s office.
“I hope because this is not unique to us,” Challas said.
“This is every small or medium-sized business in the city of San Francisco cannot survive. These kinds of things are incompatible with successful business.”
Chachas said businesses may have no choice but to leave the city.
Challas confirmed said he is seriously considering closing the store
“I don’t think we know yet,” the Gumps CEO said about possible relocation locations if the store where to close in San Francisco.
“First, I hope we don’t have to,” Challas continued.
“I would really like to see some things corrected, but if we had to, we sell in all 50 states, we have dedicated people in all the places that you would want to be: Florida, Texas.”
“There are lots of great places to be, you know, but our heart is in San Francisco,” he added. “We want to be in a healthy city.”
You’d think he’d have retired by now.
City and State officials don’t care. They’re using woke politics as stepping stones to higher offices. This according to San Francisco Insider interviews.
Quiz: Which San Franciscan wrote a book with that title?
After 160 years....
The young people and BLM types today think the next 1,000 years will be a woke Dem CCP style workers’ paradise. Like the 1,000 years the Nazis ruled the world.
Let’s stop them.
Well, there’s one city that Bidenskyyy, Gruesom Newsom and Nanzi Pelosi can take credit for totally destroying.
They will be the Mensheviks..................
Lease the city to China for ten years.
They will do the work Americans refuse to do.
I thought that quote originated with Ann Coulter.
The plan is working...
* Bankrupt existing small businesses
* Buy premium property for a pittance
* Tear down decaying structure & rebuild smart cities
* Enslave citizens/illegal immigrants in their ‘community’
* Elites live in their mansions
He probably voted for a lot of this insanity.
Michael Savage
Wish I could buy puts on liberal cities.
Since the mayor and governor don’t care about a formerly world class city becoming a turd world shithole I think it’s obvious there are ulterior motives.
I know! I know! 👋
My dad had that book and read it.
I didn’t read it from cover to cover, but I read good chunks of it when I visited him.
Drive down property values.
Drive out conservative business people.
Drive up cost of doing business.....................
I thought the place was nuts back in the days of Feinstein and Harvey Milk. Never understood all the reverence for it.
* Elites live in their mansions
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People should be asking themselves why the elites live so much better than they do. Its not because they are smarter or more productive than the rest of us; most of them cannot perform the simplest of life’s basic tasks.
I think cheap real estate is a goal here....cheap for billionaires.
The author of that book would be Michael Savage.
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