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Crime-Ridden San Francisco Seeks To Allow Lawsuits Against Grocery Stores Fleeing The City As Mass Corporate Exodus Continues
Benzinga via Yahoo Finance ^ | 04/15/2024 | Caleb Naysmith

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: business; exodus; sanfrancisco
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To: ealgeone

East Berlin residents were similarly encouraged to stay put, n’est ce pas?


21 posted on 04/15/2024 8:08:30 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: SeekAndFind

“ 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.”

Sue the board of supes for creating a toxic dangerous environment


22 posted on 04/15/2024 8:12:33 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: cross_bearer_02
About 30 years ago aThe City of San Francisco called to ask me to bid on a significant amount of a specialty product for one of their power stations.

I declined.

23 posted on 04/15/2024 8:14:35 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: Parley Baer

this is out of the newsome playbook, tax people for moving out of state.


24 posted on 04/15/2024 8:18:06 PM PDT by coalminersson (since )
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this extortion? Or like Mafioso type management, where either you stay and pay or you leave and pay. Either way, this removes any liberal or democratic leanings and the city becomes a dictatorship. I would say to businesses still there: Leave now before the SF Nazi Police come after you.


25 posted on 04/15/2024 8:21:39 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: cross_bearer_02

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA


26 posted on 04/15/2024 8:25:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, you guys decided to embrace crime and criminals to the point that they know there’s little or no penalties for their crimes, so what did you expect? So, enjoy the shithole you’ve created. At least you’re not all ‘judgmental’ and stuff.


27 posted on 04/15/2024 8:35:16 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: Seaplaner

Hey, as long as the bath houses and gay bars aren’t affected they’re fine.


28 posted on 04/15/2024 8:40:23 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: Parley Baer

Exactly, if I were a grocery store owner, I’d never go there in the first place.
Those woke SF idiots keep shooting themselves in the foot.
The simple solution is to prosecute criminals! Can’t have that! /s


29 posted on 04/15/2024 9:23:39 PM PDT by bantam
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To: SeekAndFind

Just say “we’re open, we’re just completely out of stock.” And keep a single employee there for six months to satisfy the stupid city council.


30 posted on 04/15/2024 10:15:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Everyone of those stores should close tomorrow in order to beat this communist crap.


31 posted on 04/15/2024 10:35:35 PM PDT by Revel
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To: SeekAndFind

How stupid does one have to be to think this will work?


32 posted on 04/15/2024 10:48:21 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: SeekAndFind
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors might be able to force the business to stay open, but they can't force the individual worker to continue to work there.

The first amendment right of the people to peaceably assemble (aka the right of free association) allows people to change jobs at will. The pursuit of happiness expects people to improve themselves by gaining experience and advancing in capabilities and better jobs with better pay.

Only centrally-planned economies run by communist governments mandate which jobs certain people will be allowed to have. San Francisco cannot force people to continue to show up for work in a job they no longer want nor feel safe doing.

If they must do so, they can invoke the 13th amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Staff the grocery stores with people convicted of crimes if they want to force businesses to remain open. The criminals can be paid prison wages, which should remove a large operating cost from the businesses.

-PJ

33 posted on 04/15/2024 11:02:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

All of these lawsuits are doomed to fail.


34 posted on 04/15/2024 11:03:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who’s the genius who decided to put a Whole Foods there in the first place?


35 posted on 04/16/2024 12:33:09 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the politicians job to see to the community that elected them. They are throwing their responsibility onto business men who can no longer tolerate losses caused by the policies of these idiots.


36 posted on 04/16/2024 2:11:48 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like they are trying to legislate people with no standing to have standing to bring a lawsuit. So, the drug addled bum living in a tent a block away whose only shopping there consisted of shoplifting can sue them for not feeding him. Works for the vegan bum. Not so much for Whole Foods


37 posted on 04/16/2024 2:53:41 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: gunnut
knowing them they'd make it a retroactive rule...

but you are right....get out and get out now....

38 posted on 04/16/2024 2:57:21 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Bullish

I’m thinking that places like san fran just want decent people to leave and let the rot take over...then Buffet and blackrock can buy up billions of dollars in properties for pennies on the dollar...


39 posted on 04/16/2024 2:59:05 AM PDT by cherry
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To: SeekAndFind

The sooner they pass this law the sooner the city will wither away or collapse altogether. A bad thing, but not the worst thing.


40 posted on 04/16/2024 3:02:56 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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