Posted on 04/04/2024 3:02:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When in doubt, blame businesses for closing their doors instead of the crime that has made it unsustainable for them to operate. San Francisco might even do you one better: force the businesses to stay open anyway.
One of the 11 members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is floating reviving a vetoed 1984 law that would force grocery stores to stay open against their will. Supervisor Dean Preston calls it a “good idea” because of the risk of “food insecurity” that comes with grocery stores closing.
The law in question would require stores to give a whopping six-month notice before closing, would force them to meet with community members (i.e. activists who will shame them for being greedy corporations), and would mandate that they “explore” opening a replacement store to make up for the one they are closing. In other words, San Francisco would be forcing grocery stores to stay open while running at a loss and putting their own employees in danger due to crime, all because San Francisco just can’t stomach locking up the criminals causing these problems in the first place.
On the bright side, this may just be a worse idea than Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposing government-run grocery stores, moving San Francisco closer to the title of worst-run city in the country. But this is not a solution to the problem. The problem is that crime has made running several businesses unsustainable, whether through the losses that come with rampant shoplifting, the safety of employees being put in jeopardy, or both.
Forcing grocery stores to become charities for six months while a bunch of activists complain is not going to stop stores from closing. In fact, it would make them far more hesitant to open new locations (or the alternative ones the law mandates they consider), knowing that they could be held hostage by the city government for six months if their business becomes unsustainable.
If San Francisco pursues this, it would simply be a punishment levied against businesses that are only responding to the terrible circumstances they have been put in by criminals and by San Francisco’s lax attitude toward them. Forcing grocery stores to stay open temporarily doesn’t actually solve any problems, because it isn’t designed to solve a real problem.
Nobody can stop a business from closing unless they pony the money up to support the business. I hope the leftists get used to disappointment.
Why doesn’t SF just seize these businesses and fire the former owners?
Simple. Arrange for your store to burn down while you are at dinner with friends in a restaurant.
The end goal of communism is for all businesses to be owned by the collectivity. SF is moving closer to that.
Nothing wrong with staying open - just put pictures of food and QR Code where other supermarkets have food.
Boy, they just can’t wait to get their full fledged fascism in place.
Stay open, don’t order any more stock.
Empty shelves are the #1 indicator of socialist success...
Don’t tell SF about Directive 10-289.
A creative manager could stock unmilled wheat and rye grain only, keeping the store open.
It is food, and no one would steal it.
Communism.
And to provide money to the drug cartels.
“Not sure how the fire started, Officer! All I know is that I’m out of business and moving to a more SANE part of what once was America.”
*SMIRK*
So what? Just think how bad the racism against blacks used to be!
Unless SF is going to compensate the store for their losses they can’t stop them from closing.
There is the “Takings” clause in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
These Libs that are so much smarter than everyone else should know this.
And what about the risk of life and limb to the employees. Is the city going to indemnify the store for injury or death of the employees that may injured or killed during robbery?
Every store in SF should close immediately.
If SF is going to make their financial decisions for them it is time to go.
If made to stay open it would be with completely empty shelves. Empty store but a sign on the door saying “we’re open.”
Next thing you know and they’ll be building a wall topped with barbed wire & and 50 caliber machine gun emplacements so they can keep all their businesses and people from leaving...Commifornia...
Build walls around these s-hole blue cities and let them eat each other.
More Leftist insanity. I guess it’s too much to ask that they arrest and prosecute shoplifters.
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