The EPA regs. not only would control A/C but refrigerators also. They want to control the coolant used in both. The EPA needs to be dissolved and all its ‘employees’ retired or prosecuted. Remember under the Kenyan this org. wanted to control mud puddles on peoples’ property. While we are focused on correcting a stolen election Bidet’s puppet masters have orgs. like the EPA doing their bidding in the shadows.
First “Wrong” Beach, Now ‘Lost’ Angeles: Kroger Closing More Stores Due to Govt Mandated Price Hikes
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California is a great place to do business if that business is going out of business. First, we had the story from Long Beach where an additional (mandated $4/hour) “Hero Pay” forced grocery chain, Kroger, to close two stores. Now it’s Los Angeles.
...The hazard pay was due to the Pandemic – the takeaway is that those elected officials believe they know better (from both ends) than those who own and run businesses. So, of course, the Law of Unintended Consequences is teaching them a lesson:
Last month, the Los Angeles City Council approved an emergency ordinance to require grocery stores, retailers, and pharmacies with more than 300 employees nationwide, or more than 10 employees on-site, to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay during the coronavirus pandemic. Kroger reacted by planning to close three Los Angeles locations on May 12, citing “hero pay” as the main factor for shuttering the doors.
“The mandate will add an additional $20 million in operating costs over the next 120 days, making it financially unsustainable to continue operating the three underperforming locations,” Kroger said in a statement. “Despite our efforts to overcome the challenges we were already facing at these locations, the extra pay mandate makes it impossible to run a financially sustainable business that ensures our ability to continue serving the Los Angeles community at those three locations with reliable access to affordable, fresh groceries and other essentials.”
Progressives believe is that businesses exist to give jobs to people. Like others on the Left, they KNOW that people should come before “profit.”
Kroger told them that these locations AREN’T making a profit.
Not making a profit, then adding arbitrary labor costs simply because of someone’s stupid “good intentions,” well – that’s just throwing money into the Pacific. Politicians didn’t listen before, and they aren’t listening again. Typically, the politicians aren’t willing to admit to THEIR mistake – it HAS to be someone else’s, and the expected reaction of not “following orders” is in the process:
Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion to investigate Kroger for closing the three L.A. stores.
“The city has an interest in considering whether it should take legislative action to address these closures and potentially future closures of other grocery stores especially in areas of the city that are commonly known as Food Deserts,” the motion introduced by Democratic Councilmen Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Paul Koretz said.
Idiots. What are they going to do after “investigating”? What is it that they believe they can do when a business has already gone belly up?
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EPA? Blame Pres. Nixon...not for what it was (good intentions yadi,yadi,yadi)but what it became...