Posted on 02/04/2021 5:53:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Kroger announced Monday that it will be closing two stores in Long Beach, California — a Ralph’s and a Food 4 Less — after the city council voted to require that large grocery store chains pay workers additional “hero pay” of $4 per hour.
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Do you want Food Deserts? Because This is How your get Food Deserts.
I don’t understand how a city can dictate an employee pay raise when the pay was already the legal minimum wage or higher.
Hero pay, like the minimum wage, is raw, unadulterated fascism. The government interjects itself between the two parties to a contract.
“Hero pay”?
The commies sure come up with interesting, diversionary lingo.
Ok. Make the council pay it from THEIR personal accounts.
My Dad was in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Never made Kroger status though.
This is how they roll. create a problem, wait for it to become a big issue then use it to get votes on the promise of creating a new program to help the starving peasants.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Let them eat masks.
Heroes?! this is like the post office with that stoopid “Heroes Work Here” sign.
Just do your friggin’ job already.
elected officials should have to pass an exam that, among many other things, indicates that they understand the most basic functioning of economics. ANYONE with a little bit of a brain would understand how this would turn out, yet they still did it.
It has nothing to do with Chinese Communists. Or does it?
As for 'Hero' pay, it is nothing more than wealth redistribution. Government picks who must to money to whom. It is a form of minimum wage. That is one more issue that is in the news more often this past week. Republicans have never made an effective argument against minimum wage and they never abolished minimum wage; even when they controlled the executive and both houses of the legislature. The point of bringing this up? This is the bottom of a slippery slope that people warned you about years ago. Republicans never did anything about it. They are pussies. I will never vote for a Republican again. Not that it matters. My vote does not count.
“I do not feel bad for long beach.”
I was in the ship yards at long beach. It’s a crap hole. I laugh at this. Bring the pain, bring it by the truckload. CA deserves every last bit of pain that comes their way.
My thoughts too. How is this not government interference into private business? ...and at the city council level? Who do these people think they are?
I hate to say it because I see my savings and investments evaporate as we speak but my one daughter is making out like a fat rat, between this how ever much per child and for what ever per person this is totally crazy money for sure.
There’s got to be an equal protection lawsuit in this somewhere. All other works who had “essential jobs” get discriminated against?
“This is How your get Food Deserts”
This and uncontrolled theft. Grocery stores like any other business are in business to make a profit not get stolen blind.
I think it’s called “redistribution of baby boomer assets for you. or better yet steal your 401K, 457, roth, whatever just steal, take, give away and redistribute plus “ my 10% of course for the Big Guy”
You two obviously didn't get the memo: They can do anything they want and tell us to do whatever they say because they're Democrats and they're in power.
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