Seattle is helping to close Grocery Stores

[ma96782]

Yup....passing a new law requiring "Grocery Stores" to pay an extra $4 an hour as "Hazard Pay". QFC (so far). But how will the new law also affect the local Winco or Safeway?

QFC to close two stores in Seattle after city mandates hazard pay for grocery workers

Kroger-owned QFC said it is closing two "underperforming" grocery stores in Seattle largely because of the City Council's new law requiring an extra $4 in hazard pay for grocery workers.

www.q13fox.com

Of course, it won't affect the BIG GUYS (i.e. Wal Mart or Target). HINT: Definition "Grocery Store"

Aloha, Mark

PS.....probably gonna see higher shelf prices as a result. F@^*ing Seattle. Lucky I don't live there. BUT....I can also foresee the rot extending. Remember that thread complaining about the number of real grocery stores available to the residents of the "inner cities"?

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[Flopsweat]

It would be nice to see Seattle do something pragmatic just once instead of the constant virtue signaling. If we tell you we're all convinced now that you're better than us, can you drop the act for just a few minutes and do something useful?

 

[Member 34319]

That's a hell of a backfire.

Turned out, instead of getting a raise, they lost their jobs entirely!

 

[ma96782]

BTW....DYK?

Seattle already has a $16.69 min wage (and for some companies, it's $15) as of 2021.

So....now add $4 an hour to pick up grocery carts = KaChing!!!

Aloha, Mark

 

[Alexx1401]

A while back when not only Seattle but a few cites started saying they were going to do this anyone with a brain knew what would happen. It of course did. The sad part is those who lost their job will stand there and blame people who are not in charge, as they vote for the people who cost them their job. As with the Min wage increase it will lead to job loss, and price increase. Stores that remain open will of course raise prices and cut back more. Again voters are getting what they ask for and deserve
This will of course also effect the tax base, as it always does. This will cause many who can to shop outside of the city. So sales taxes are lost on top of jobs.

 

[ma96782]

Yup....Long Beach, CA has it too.

Ralphs, Food 4 Less to close 25% of Long Beach stores over extra $4 per hour 'Hero Pay' ordinance

Ralphs and Food 4 Less, both owned by the parent company Kroger, announced Monday that they will be closing 25% of their stores in Long Beach after the city council passed an ordinance requiring companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay employees an extra $4 per hour.

www.q13fox.com

Aloha, Mark

 

[Flopsweat]

Yup....Long Beach, CA has it too.

Ralphs, Food 4 Less to close 25% of Long Beach stores over extra $4 per hour 'Hero Pay' ordinance

Ralphs and Food 4 Less, both owned by the parent company Kroger, announced Monday that they will be closing 25% of their stores in Long Beach after the city council passed an ordinance requiring companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay employees an extra $4 per hour.

www.q13fox.com

Aloha, Mark

"The ordinance would be in place for at least 120 days, after which the ordinance would come back to the city council for a possible extension."

I think we all know that tune.

"The day after the city council passed the ordinance, the California Grocers Association filed a legal challenge to an ordinance. The claim asked the court to declare the pending hazard pay decree invalid and unconstitutional.

The CGA alleged that the ordinance is illegal because, by singling out certain grocers and ignoring other groups that employ essential frontline workers, it violates the constitutional requirement that similarly situated people must be treated alike. The CGA also argued that the ordinance is preempted by the federal National Labor Relations Act, which protects the integrity of the collective-bargaining process."

 

[ma96782]

The rebellion must be put down.
Private businesses (using their own money) to fight City Hall (using Taxpayer's Money).

Aloha, Mark

 

[bigbearbear]

If we tell Seattle City Council that most grocery workers in their city are white, will they terminate the law because it'll be seen as white privilege and racist?

 

[Nosferatu]

If we tell Seattle City Council that most grocery workers in their city are white, will they terminate the law because it'll be seen as white privilege and racist?

Not a chance. A new ordnance will be passed to replace the whites with the less privileged.

 

[SonicBlue03]

Smart play by Dems. If people are unemployed and dependent on the State for survivability, then the State owns them.

 

[ma96782]

Smart play by Dems. If people are unemployed and dependent on the State for survivability, then the State owns them.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Flopsweat]

Smart play by Dems. If people are unemployed and dependent on the State for survivability, then the State owns them.

To paraphrase, "We'll have those crackers eating out of our hands for the next 100 years."

 

[Knobgoblin]

Everybody staring so hard at the ammo shelf and not paying attention to food prices.
Beef is clocking record costs for the second year in a row.
Higher wages will magnify this in "exclusive " zip codes.
Hope you like tofu there , King county.

Oh , never mind.

 

[tkdguy]

Let us all remember that the residents of the City of Seattle voted for this type of city management, so if people loose their jobs, that is the end result of the voters ultimate outcome....they have no body to blame but themselves....

 

[SonicBlue03]

To paraphrase, "We'll have those crackers eating out of our hands for the next 100 years."

Another way to look at it is: "they took away our right to own black people. So now we'll convince them that they want to be owned by us."

Dems are brilliant. And pure, unadulterated evil.

 

[Nick Burkhardt]

'The police never came': N. Seattle mom attacked twice by same man while grocery shopping

SEATTLE (KOMO) — A North Seattle woman who said she was attacked twice over the weekend by the same man at two different grocery stores in Ballard is warning other shoppers to be on alert after she called police for help after one of the incidents but no one from the department ever arrived...

komonews.com

 

[Jason999]

Seattle voted in and stood by their craziness, I only have sympathy towards those who want to leave but are somehow unable.

 

[Bam]

Their ultimate goal is to kill the middle class.

They only want the rich ruling class and the poor service class to control.

 

[bigbearbear]

Is it illegal for grocery store to impose a "hero service charge" in their Seattles store which an additional 25% is collected at check out? That will help pay for the heroic actions of grocery workers who selflessly bagged my frozen pizza and collect wondering shopping carts stolen by homeless people?