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.
But in other news, John Kerry and the New World Forum want to shutdown farming in order to reach net-o Co2 emission. That said, what will be on the grocery stores shelves? “Soylent Green” made from the billions of people that the New World Form, and the New World Order want to eliminate? It is sad when the left doesn’t know what the left is doing!
[Freedom Pay]
It’s everywhere.
And in the pic with the Amazon One Palm-Print Scanner, a bit.....(perhaps ironic is the proper word)
Next up:
Directive 10-289
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If the citizens are so concerned about food deserts then why don’t the locals take matters into their own hands and post at the doors then beat the crap out of the shoplifters as they try to steal. Remembering the case in Nebraska I believe where a town bully got shot and killed while surrounded by a crowd none of whom saw anything. A crowd can certainly beat the crap out of a few thieves. A couple times of that then thieves will move on and the store can stay safe. Keep a group posted as a deterrent. Local laws and police do nothing but vigilante justice will.
Whole businesses are now trying to escape the latest version of American Communism -- aka the Democrat Party.
One should remember that the East Germans shot at those who would flee, and killed some for daring to exercise the basic human right to freedom. One should take heart that tyranny fails in time, again and again.
Some of my favorite videos on Youtube are the Great Moments in Unintended Consequences series.
“Sounds like a great idea!”
With the best of intentions
What could possibly go wrong?
Here are a couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WRDwCep25k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LivNv0AX1U4
Any chain running a grocery store there needs to close all of them NOW, Independets should too, but understand why they might not want or even be able to do so.
Thanks - I’ll have to check those out
There are going to be a lot of BAD unintended consequences of Fauci’s Folly - not to mention him killing over 7 million people using American money funneled to the Wuhan Lab
Just putting this idea out there should cause Safeway and the others to CLOSE UP TODAY before they are taken over by the city.
Only one hand is mark of the beast. I think it’s the left. It seems the people were using their right.
Thanks for the Preston information. BUMP!
A San Francisco supervisor... What the heck is that exactly.? Whatever it is, after getting a look at “San Francisco”, someone should show this dude the door...
This comes under The Government’s Right To Meddle statutes.
[A San Francisco supervisor... ]
The job that Harvey Milk had (plus Dan White)
Directive 10-289.
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