WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA
Posted on 04/15/2024 6:59:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
San Francisco has long been feared to be falling into a doom loop, a situation where taxpayers leaving the crime-ridden city results in lower tax revenues leading to cuts in services and rising taxes, making it even less desirable to live in.
It can be especially devastating when a community's essential businesses, such as grocery stores, decide to leave.
San Francisco experienced this last year when Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)-owned Whole Foods Market Inc. shut down its flagship store in the city after being open for just over a year, citing employee safety concerns.
Nearly 570 emergency calls were reported from the location in that period, including desperate pleas to police saying "male [with] machete is back," and "another security guard was just assaulted."
At the time, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Matt Dorsey said he was "incredibly disappointed" with the store closing.
"Our neighborhood waited a long time for this supermarket, but we’re also well aware of problems they’ve experienced with drug-related retail theft, adjacent drug markets and the many safety issues related to them," Dorsey said.
Now, politicians are attempting to fight back.
Dean Preston, another member of the Board of Supervisors, recently introduced a proposal called the Grocery Protection Act, which would require a closing store to provide the city six months’ notice and try to find a replacement supermarket for the location it’s vacating.
Elaborating on his proposal, Preston said, "Our communities need notice, an opportunity to be heard and a transition plan when major neighborhood grocery stores plan to shut their doors."
According to the proposal, anyone impacted by a non complying grocery store could initiate legal proceedings.
It’s not just grocery stores that have had enough of the city.
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East Berlin residents were similarly encouraged to stay put, n’est ce pas?
“ Dean Preston, another member of the Board of Supervisors, recently introduced a proposal called the Grocery Protection Act, which would require a closing store to provide the city six months’ notice and try to find a replacement supermarket for the location it’s vacating.”
Sue the board of supes for creating a toxic dangerous environment
I declined.
this is out of the newsome playbook, tax people for moving out of state.
Is this extortion? Or like Mafioso type management, where either you stay and pay or you leave and pay. Either way, this removes any liberal or democratic leanings and the city becomes a dictatorship. I would say to businesses still there: Leave now before the SF Nazi Police come after you.
Well, you guys decided to embrace crime and criminals to the point that they know there’s little or no penalties for their crimes, so what did you expect? So, enjoy the shithole you’ve created. At least you’re not all ‘judgmental’ and stuff.
Hey, as long as the bath houses and gay bars aren’t affected they’re fine.
Exactly, if I were a grocery store owner, I’d never go there in the first place.
Those woke SF idiots keep shooting themselves in the foot.
The simple solution is to prosecute criminals! Can’t have that! /s
Just say “we’re open, we’re just completely out of stock.” And keep a single employee there for six months to satisfy the stupid city council.
Everyone of those stores should close tomorrow in order to beat this communist crap.
How stupid does one have to be to think this will work?
The first amendment right of the people to peaceably assemble (aka the right of free association) allows people to change jobs at will. The pursuit of happiness expects people to improve themselves by gaining experience and advancing in capabilities and better jobs with better pay.
Only centrally-planned economies run by communist governments mandate which jobs certain people will be allowed to have. San Francisco cannot force people to continue to show up for work in a job they no longer want nor feel safe doing.
If they must do so, they can invoke the 13th amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Staff the grocery stores with people convicted of crimes if they want to force businesses to remain open. The criminals can be paid prison wages, which should remove a large operating cost from the businesses.
-PJ
All of these lawsuits are doomed to fail.
Who’s the genius who decided to put a Whole Foods there in the first place?
It’s the politicians job to see to the community that elected them. They are throwing their responsibility onto business men who can no longer tolerate losses caused by the policies of these idiots.
Sounds like they are trying to legislate people with no standing to have standing to bring a lawsuit. So, the drug addled bum living in a tent a block away whose only shopping there consisted of shoplifting can sue them for not feeding him. Works for the vegan bum. Not so much for Whole Foods
but you are right....get out and get out now....
I’m thinking that places like san fran just want decent people to leave and let the rot take over...then Buffet and blackrock can buy up billions of dollars in properties for pennies on the dollar...
The sooner they pass this law the sooner the city will wither away or collapse altogether. A bad thing, but not the worst thing.
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