Posted on 02/07/2024 1:50:47 AM PST by TigerClaws
Let the Marxist politicians open and operate their own dang stores. One could develop a TV drama series filming in one of their stores. It could be named “Lack of Law and Order”
So they will pass an ordinance demanding stores stay in business while doing nothing about crime. How blinking stupid are these people.
Six months. Why not 10 years? 20?
Let them (the new desert denizens) learn how to become one of them leftist, hippie, epicurean urban foragers. There’s all kinds of weeds, grasses, twigs and scum silt I think would be to their liking. “Gutter-to-Table” in a few easy trips.
Dean E. Preston (born 1969 or 1970)[1] is an American attorney and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In November 2019, Preston won a special election to finish Mayor London Breed’s term on the Board of Supervisors. He was re-elected in the November 2020 election.
Born and having grown up in New York City, Preston graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in anthropology and economics before moving to San Francisco. He graduated with a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law and was staff attorney for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic from 2000 to 2008, after which he founded and led Tenants Together, a tenant advocacy organization. Preston is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Simple fix....up the price on groceries by 100-percent, or mandate some fee to enter the store (like $60).
Every single grocery store should give 6 month notice. Big ones. Little ones. All of them. As of Aug 8, there will be no food for sale in the city. At all.
Now, having given notice can’t possibly lock any store into that decision — they could change their mind and stay open, so it costs them nothing to simply say “I plan to close in August”.
But it would sure send a message that if the City gets all Uppity, the people who make things run are Going Galt.
Thanks for the warning.
Now the few that are left know to save themselves and get out now while the gittin’ is good!
This is the same thinking that creates things like “rent control” which eventually leads to less rental units.
What grocery business will open in San Francisco knowing that that they would lose more in theft then they make as profit?
Rather then improve the situation laws like this make things worse.
Democrats make hellhole neighborhoods then try to stop people, stores and businesses from escaping.
That’s wrong. People have the right to escape evil.
Dean Preston, the man behind this insanity is stupid or gullible or he’s pretending to be decent. He’s not. In a free society humans are allowed to escape the filth evil creates and they’re under no obligation to put their employees lives at risk.
Does that mean if fewer crimes are committed grocery stores might consider staying?
Here is a suggestion. A condition of approval should be the city pays the store’s insurance cost and any other expenditures related to criminal activity within the so called neighborhood. To offset losses from keeping a non profitable store open the company may reduce wages and shorten hours.
So they are trying to reinstate slavery.
1) can’t choose to stop providing your services for other’s benefit
2) do not receive personal benefit from your labors
3) if you try to escape an area you will be punished
That’s it. Criminalize business decisions while not enforcing laws against theft.
6 months? Why not 60 years? That’ll fix it.
These are the people who created the hellhole in the first place with their glorification of criminals, no snitch rules, and sicko incentives. It's not stupid, it's evil.
As usual these folks , being in govt, have no concept of what it takes to run a business.
They legislate arbitrarily higher wages without any care if the business can pay that.
Econ 101
Why do businesses exist- to provide goods and/or services AND make a profit
Why do jobs exist(hint it is not to provide a living wage for employees)-to provide value to the business which helps it make a profit
What happens when the wages exceed the value? Prices go up or jobs go away as in replaced by automation (NOMAD serving hamburgers) and if neither of those work the business goes out of business
There is a reason these businesses are closing and most have to do with the govt and what it does and doesn’t do.
Basically decriminalizing shoplifting was a great start and the govt officials raise their heads and scream “evil businesses”
Y’all out in cali need to elect not stupid people and get back to law enforcement
All part of their plan. Drive out pharmacies and food stores because of rampant crime, then the city is “forced” to open city run stores. Just imagine the grifting opportunities that this will provide with the ensuing flood of State & Federal $.
Having to drive a longer distance to get basic necessities? Blame the #DiversityTax
There once was a store chain named “Service Merchandise” but they went out of business in 2002.
They sold hard goods, not groceries, but had a unique point-of-sales method that could probably be adapted to work for grocery stores in Looter-Rich areas.
They displayed a single item of their merchandise on the sales floor along with a dispenser of ID tags for the item.
The other stock was kept in the back warehouse area of the store.
If you wanted to buy the item you took one of the ID tags to the check out where they processed your purchases by the ID tags you turned in.
Then the items you purchased would come out of the back warehouse area in a tote box on a conveyor where you took possession.
Today with with digital technology that process could no doubt be streamlined while retaining the technique of the shopper not taking possession of their items until they were paid for.
They could go to pre-paid on-line shopping only or perhaps some sort of in-store kiosks like McDonalds.
Dianne Feinstein said THAT!
Sounds like a acid trip flashback.
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