Posted on 02/07/2024 1:50:47 AM PST by TigerClaws
(1/31/24 story) On the heels of Safeway's decision to keep its Fillmore grocery store open until January 2025, one San Francisco supervisor wants to regulate grocery store closures in the city to ensure local communities are not blindsided.
Why it matters: The proposal is an effort to ensure food security throughout the city and is a direct response to Safeway's announcement and subsequent reversal of its decision to close its Fillmore supermarket, the only full-service grocery store in the neighborhood, in March.
What's happening: Supervisor Dean Preston plans to officially introduce an ordinance, dubbed the Neighborhood Grocery Protection Act, that would require grocery stores to provide at least six months' notice before closing, meet with community members before closure and explore replacement supermarkets in the area.
Flashback: In 1984, city supervisors passed an ordinance requiring supermarkets to do as much, but then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein vetoed the legislation, calling it "an unnecessary intrusion of governmental regulatory authority."
In her written decision, she added that enabling any supervisor to "act as a bargaining agent" with a grocery store "would only serve as a disincentive for supermarkets" to run their businesses in San Francisco. Ahead of the city's decision that year, then-Safeway executive Robert E. Bradford expressed his opposition to the ordinance in a letter, saying its passing "could discourage us from building new replacement stores in the city." Axios has reached out to Safeway for comment on this new proposal.
What they're saying: "It was a good idea then, and it's an even better idea now – we need notice, we need transparency, community input, and a transition plan when major neighborhood grocery stores plan to shut their doors," Preston said in a statement. "Meeting the food security needs of our seniors and families cannot be left to unilateral, backroom decisions by massive corporate entities."
What's next: The city attorney's office is currently drafting the ordinance, according to Preston's office. Then, Preston plans to introduce the legislation at an upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting.
Yeah, more regulation to mask your failures. That’ll work. /s
Suck it.
Bullshit.
No authority to require any business to stay open.
Have the City Zoo bring feed to the Feral Animals.
Ayn Rand predicted this in “Atlas Shrugged.”
Directive 10-289, Section Two:
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Directive_10-289#Full_Text
Hi, I’m here from the government, here to help you.
The system you write about has merit - but it doesn't protect employees working in hellhole 'communities'. And it doesn't protect customers leaving the store attempting to get home without being robbed.
It's a short term survival solution. The store using enlightened system didn't survive.
The sad truth is too many people would rather shop where they can steal... a hard ugly truth.
These 'communities' need the slap in the face of stores leaving. Of long bus rides to shop. Or the effort involved in getting good credit to have groceries delivered. Then and only then will they demand their cities to arrest and jail criminals Then to throw out the culture damning 'no snitch' rules. AND the glorification of criminals, and the 'look the other way' because they're 'of color' crap.
or
B. The store in the no-go zone would be sold to a new corporate entity. Instead of announcing any closing, they'd simply declare bankruptcy.
Let the city run a food store out of the jail.
uh-oh......what could possibly go wrong?
How many stock boys does the supervisor have?
(Some will get the reference.)
TOTALITARIANS force grocers to get looted and possibly murdered? Dean Preston should open up his pantry and home to the poor criminals.
Freedom Pay
Thanks.
Hold them hands a little higher and you got a Hitler salute.
With more pollution?
Nah - just have the food delivery folks drop stuff off at my driveway.
I’m sure I can get it stored in the garage before the hungry feral looters show up.
This has basically been reborn in my town, with one slight difference.
You need not actually go to the store* yourself to collect little tickets. A ‘shopper’ gets your list that you’ve sent to the stores computer and then rounds up your selections. you can opt to pick up your purchases at the dispensary area in the lot, or have the items delivered to your home by truck.
* Krogers / Walmart
I never saw a thread so overtaken by one poster.
Coming on the heels of the above, Vast warehouses will be built on the order of Amazon and will collect your food at extremely high speeds and package and deliver it.
Just wait...
Just wait until it becomes part of everyday life - in most every store......
I was wondering when the leftists were going to speak out about the need to *force* grocery stores, pharmacies, and restaurants from closing in “certain” areas of the country.
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