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.
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. Other large businesses that recently closed their downtown San Francisco locations include Adidas, AT&T Inc., Nordstrom and Lego Group.
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How would you react if your favorite store announced it was leaving due to high crime rates, and how would that change your perception of your city or neighborhood?
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Reality matters. Coorporations take extreme measures to see how much and what's being stolen from what locations. If people are committing crimes in that area, they hurt their own community. There is no easy way to put it, they are stealing from themselves in the process. (Exceptions are baby formula and products, water)
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Litterally they are fleeing the crimes that these liberal cesspools will not protect.
Are politicians ever held to account for their disastrous policies or do they just move to greener pastures like locusts?
Soviet style food lines will be next.
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