• BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
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    It doesn’t have to be their obligation to be the right thing to do.

    Just because they can doesn’t mean they should.

    If the Billionaires and corporations buying out the competition to prevent this from happening naturally won’t do it, who will?

    What crime specifically and how does it relate to mega food corps effect on exiting cities after they’ve effectively killed their competition?

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      The homeless are everywhere. Shoplifting is up. Maybe you haven’t noticed but San Francisco has become a shit show. If I was a business. I’d move out as well

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        Most places in the US have become a shit show. It’s not isolated to San Francisco and the least a multi-billion dollar corporation could do before exiting this particular shit show is make sure it doesn’t become an even shittier show as a result of their business practices.

        I don’t understand why you think the corporation here is innocent and the city has to deal with the consequences of the corporation’s actions when you clearly don’t trust them to in the first place. The only reason this law is even necessary is because large corporations like Albertsons have effectively killed their competition in these areas.

        They broke it, they should buy it.

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          The only reason this law is even necessary is because large corporations like Albertsons have effectively killed their competition in these areas

          That isn’t the reason at all. It’s because of the crime.

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            They have to pay to ensure there’s a new grocery store because crime? Not because they’ve already killed smaller shops for decades, creating effectively a duopoly (monopoly if their merger with Kroger goes through)?

            They aren’t even being told to pay for it, just provide 6 months notice before closing!

            I’m starting to think “crime” is just a conservative catch-all term for “I want to be justified in this”

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              They aren’t even being told to pay for it, just provide 6 months notice before closing!

              Find another grocery store, created a co-op etc. none of these are their obligations. I suspect this will get thrown out if passed

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                The bill just says they need to give notice.

                You have to get notice to be evicted, you typically give notice to quit a job, why is it such a bad idea for a large grocery chain to give notice before closing their store?

                I’m struggling to understand why that would enrage you.