San Francisco Bill Would Let People Sue
Grocery Stores for Closing Too Quickly
Reason,
by
Christian Britschgi
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
4/7/2024 10:31:01 PM
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a remarkable policy that would allow people to sue grocery stores that close too quickly.
Earlier this week, Supervisors Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin introduced an ordinance that, if passed, would require grocery stores to provide six months' written notice to the city before closing down.
Supermarket operators would also have to make "good faith" efforts to ensure the continued availability of groceries at their shuttered location, either through finding a successor store, helping residents form a grocery co-op, or any other plan they might work out by meeting with city and neighborhood residents.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/7/2024 10:35:09 PM (No. 1694914)
Directive 10-289
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.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/7/2024 10:46:34 PM (No. 1694921)
And they are mystified and flummoxed when businesses close, and others don't move in and open up...
Never forget the brand-new CVS in Baltimore neighborhood that the Freddie Gray protesters/terrorists destroyed, a place that sold grocery store type items (as most do, but if I recall correctly, it was a super CVS).
The "government" may have to open food warehouses and sell food like happened during the depression, and doled out to homeless, etc.
Certainly this is yet another fascist/commie "remedy".
35 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/7/2024 10:51:10 PM (No. 1694922)
Close now - beat the rush.
62 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/7/2024 10:55:28 PM (No. 1694924)
How is this even constitutional? Not that Democrats care.
42 people like this.
I’d close as soon as posssible and the heck with the “city”.
26 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/7/2024 11:08:49 PM (No. 1694929)
Socialists will never understand the underpinnings of capitalism. These stores are owned and operated by business people who provide services for profits. Kill the profit motives and watch those stores board up. Damned communists idiots!
44 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/7/2024 11:19:27 PM (No. 1694930)
Clever. Blame the retail establishments who are shutting down because you can't control crime in your rathole of a city.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Californian 4/7/2024 11:30:44 PM (No. 1694932)
Weaklings! They should just declare the stores have to stay open forever and give away everything for free and pay $10000000000 per hour to everyone who works there and no one has to even show up! A workers' paradise!
32 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 4/7/2024 11:34:47 PM (No. 1694935)
Yet another idiotic liberal idea meant to provide cover for their utter incompetence and complete failure to manage the city. How do they plan to enforce compliance?
26 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
SALady 4/8/2024 12:19:59 AM (No. 1694941)
If this insanity is actually being considered, why would every store in San Fornication not close tomorrow to avoid being bankrupted to meet these insane lie-beral policies?!?!?!?
21 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/8/2024 12:30:16 AM (No. 1694943)
If you take the profit out of the equation, you will have long bread lines like Russia did. Since the baker couldn't make a profit, that's capitalism, he baked so many loaves and people waited hours in line. When he ran out he closed the door. People still in line didn't get bread that day. Wonder if anyone in California understands this?
16 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2024 12:42:17 AM (No. 1694951)
Mind boggling lack of grasp of the barest fundamentals of economics from these Communist idiots.
25 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/8/2024 12:50:40 AM (No. 1694957)
You have to hire who they say, stock what they say, charge what they say, pay what they say, keep the hours that they say...and CAN NOT stop anyone who decide they will just take whatever they want without paying...while being taxed to the hilt, extra even for the Govt "Minders" they will hire to make sure that you DO all of these things. But YOU have to start , license, open, stock, staff and spend everything needed to do so.
Look up the REAL definition of "Fascism"
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/8/2024 2:50:53 AM (No. 1694975)
no matter what "they" do, administratively, within the San Francisco government, the communists are still in charge and will not bring sanity to that city until they, like Hamas, are dissolved and defeated both politically and numerically
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/8/2024 3:23:42 AM (No. 1694993)
Another reason the CA legislature has gone totally communistic.
12 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 4/8/2024 3:58:18 AM (No. 1695004)
Customer: "We are suing you for going out of business."
Owner: "You and your friends shoplifted from me every day. You also attacked my employees."
Customer: "That's your problem. Get a lawyer."
17 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
chumley 4/8/2024 6:48:39 AM (No. 1695057)
When the government opens their ghetto warehouses, will they allow the feral chimps in to steal everything they can? No, they'll get lots of security at our expense. Its nice to have a bottomless check book I guess.
I applaud everyone who gets fed up and closes up shop forever to move to a freer state, with the usual admonitions.
9 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/8/2024 7:27:03 AM (No. 1695071)
I don't know if the politicians are totally ignorant of economics or if they are intentionally destroying San Francisco. Either way it does not bode well for the city.
3 people like this.
I wish I owned a supermarket chain just so I could have the pleasure of closing a location in San Fran sick.
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
moebellini3 4/8/2024 9:27:06 AM (No. 1695139)
Welcome to North Korea and the world of Kim Jung-Newsom. Pathetic.
1 person likes this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
broken01 4/8/2024 9:29:31 AM (No. 1695141)
This is what happens when you have a moronic city board of supervisors and one of the dumbest mayors in the country in London Breed running things.
3 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
joew9 4/8/2024 10:03:55 AM (No. 1695158)
Government using heavy control of businesses. There is a word for that kind of economics. Fascism.
1 person likes this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 4/8/2024 10:15:31 AM (No. 1695165)
A drop into the ocean for the San Francisco government would be good Karma. These idiots should spend their policing money on making sure stores are safe and they wouldn't have stores closing due to their pro-crime policies. The worst thing about this is how will Nancy get her ice cream?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/8/2024 10:16:28 AM (No. 1695167)
Remember Hillary!'s response concerning the employer's increased costs of healthcare ? She couldn't be responsible for under capitalized businesses.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/8/2024 10:30:13 AM (No. 1695179)
Suing business for closing. Taxing residents for leaving.
Are you kidding?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/8/2024 10:41:10 AM (No. 1695197)
#3 is correct. If you were entertaining opening a business in SF, this would put a stake in it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 4/8/2024 10:58:49 AM (No. 1695215)
If they can't close they could remove all inventory, shelves, and equipment.
3 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/8/2024 11:02:48 AM (No. 1695228)
Lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/8/2024 11:05:03 AM (No. 1695233)
There are probably a lot of businesses considering whether they should close and leave now. Just the threat of this being enacted will accelerate the exodus.
1 person likes this.
Closing too quickly? Grocery stores in San Franshitco had better close more quickly than they thought, before this commandment takes effect.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
franq 4/8/2024 2:30:52 PM (No. 1695356)
Make-work bill for lawyers.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
FJB 4/8/2024 5:55:49 PM (No. 1695437)
Unless, of course, "they're" busy looting. Then establishments must remain open until, unrushed, "they're" politely offered plastic bags and coffee-to-go, and then unhurriedly escorted out. MAGA-Vet
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