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.
I think it’s like a city council member.
This is getting very “Alas Shrugged”-ish.
Its called Facism by Marxist Dems.
I thought slavery was bad.
Dean Preston needs to open his own grocery store.
Dean is an actual commie, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
So much for free commerce. Oh, yeah, CA enjoys their “free” commerce where the first $950 shoplifting is free.
I’m gonna laugh if he pushes this and every last grocery store gets the heck outta Dodge by next week.
Directive 10-289
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people’s security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
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.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.[1]
Take 90% of the food out of it but keep it open for 6 months.
alternatively, man-trap entrances like those used in high-end jewelry and gem shops around the world would solve the problem cheaper and easier ...
Look for a mass exodus of grocery stores. No operators in their right minds would stay in a jurisdiction that can and will demand that they remain open, allow rampant theft, pay whatever wages the local government dictates, etc. The governments can buy the sites and operate the stores at a loss themselves. Welcome to Starnesville.
Yup. This one screams “Directive 10-289”. They always think a command economy is just one diktat away.
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.
Look for riots next. It’s the ghetto cycle. Destroy the businesses
around you and then complain because they left. Riot! The
government will provide incentives for businesses to return.
Then respect the businesses for a period of time and start
all over.
With sanctioned crime, the cycle repeats faster.
The want retailers to absorb the theft
AND take the risk with employees’ lives
EMPLOYEES’ LIVES MATTER!
Just move to the endgame:
What we say is explicitly legal is legal, and the rest is illegal.
Worked for Argentina.
(Dean) Preston is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Preston
WOW 😳😳 - excellent catch!
Good job!
My wife's brother was a long-time employee at a major Walgreens store in San Francisco. Lots of daily shoplifting, almost all by black punks. He was in fear for his life. If he so much as looked at a black punk, the perp would get in his face and say "You hate black people, don't you!". Store policy was to not get involved in stopping shoplifters. Even so, he got punched in the face a couple times. Finally was able to retire a few years ago. Many Walgreens stores in SF got shut down shortly afterwards. As far as I'm concerned, blacks don't deserve stores anywhere near their neighborhoods until they can become civilized and treat other races with kindness.
“No one dares speak it.”
Oh. This isn’t one of those “SAY THE WORDS” campaigns?? /sarc
[And NOW the only word I can think of is fahrvergnugen. GREAT!]
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