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.
While they are at it they should demand that everything in the stores be free.
These people are delusional. They think their power is unlimited.
WYATT’s TORCH-—
soon to be seen everywhere & anywhere.
For those who have yet read “Atlas Shrugged”-—time to do so.
Isn’t that called slavery? Forcing people to work?
Thanks for the warning.
Time to close now and beat the deadline!
Just say no
I think they would rather pay the fine for closing than accept the losses from operating.
Retail deserts. In all Blue cities.
This could possibly be considered a taking under the 5th Amendment.
They try and get this passed and you will see a mass exodus of grocery stores from certain parts of the city, or hell as many as possible just leave San Francisco ASAP. Then what will the city and county do, well open their own stores and suffer the losses as much as they can. Or the city can guarantee the stores losses to keep them open.
Of course they can make them stay open, nothing says the stores have to continue to stock merchandise. Socialist Utopia San Fran. Upton Sinclair would be proud.
San Francisco considers endorsing slavery…
NOT that long ago-—Calif wanted to TAX people who were leaving. EVEN IF RETIRING.
That is what will happen in short order.
Completely unconstitutional
Business owners into slaves / indentured servants
Once your shelves are stripped clean by the termites, what is the point of even showing up to operate the business end of the operation?
A mission statement for any organization presumes there is a mission. When the business model becomes inoperable, the enterprise dies.
You think we still live in a paradigm where the constitution matters?
WORDS from Dean Preston, a government TOTALITARIAN.
Yes I have to think this will accelerate the closing of stores already marginal. Why wait for the shoe to drop.
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