Kroger Co. will close two supermarkets in Southern California in response to a local ordinance requiring extra pay for certain grocery employees working during the pandemic.
The decision announced by the company Monday follows a unanimous vote last month by the Long Beach City Council mandating a 120-day increase of $4 an hour for employees of supermarkets with at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 15 in Long Beach.
Kroger said it will close a Ralphs market and a Food 4 Less on April 17.
Congratulations, Long Beach California!!! YOU are driving businesses away by mandating extra pay for no reason.
The whole state of CA is in a non-stop spiral down to economic disaster
CNBC did a "What is causing the mass exodus from California?!" special thing.
Without watching it, I am betting they get all of it wrong and ignore that people fuckin' hate the liberalism that causes them to be broke
As someone living in CA, here's what it feels like. Companies are leaving CA because it is a bad state for business when it comes to rules/regulations/taxes thanks to Dem leadership. People are leaving as the jobs leave, and as our taxes increase (again, due to Dems). The working people are leaving. However, our homeless population is exploding and most are from out of state. Dems refuse to do anything to prevent this, and just allow them to take over our parks and beaches out of "compassion".
So, workers are leaving. Homeless are coming.
Unfortunately, who puts them on trial?
Even certain people here are like "STORMING THE CAPITOL WAS TERRORISM!" and it comforts them to believe it was AntiFA.
While it is important to point out we didn't do it, it is also important to acknowledge that when every other part of the system fails to keep their cheating and anti-American bullshit in check, that is the only sort of action that becomes acceptable.
But they have somehow outlawed that part of our Constitutional duty.
CNN: this means it's actually a wash which means nobody's leaving!
How many products does Kroger sell that are from China?
Sounds like Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle Washington!
It's obviously due to white supremacy. /s
It's "progressive" now.
You're right and I meant to put it into quotation marks
Classical liberalism leads to leftism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iOL_AQl71U
I'm classically liberal and I'm considered far right at this point ?
I don't want any of the shit the left is cooking.
That doesn't take away from the fact that liberalism turns into what you despise. Liberalism is upstream from leftism.
Learn the error of this way: https://www.youtube.com/c/KnightsofChristendom/search?query=liberal
We can still turn back. There is still time to salvage something for the children and grandchildren.
Blaming things other than the cause isn't getting it wrong. It's propaganda and is what they're paid to do.
Impossible! It's lead by Democrats and Democrats know everything!!!
I actually love it. It's living proof of allowing liberals to create their own utopia, implement their grand ideas and watch them burn themselves alive. It's a perfect case study. People can't flee fast enough.
Authoritarianism - parasites killing the host body.
Can't wait for the military to take over.
fOoD dEsErTs ArE rAcIsM!
Fun time waster - internet search anything plus the word racism. I just did swimming pool. First article that comes up: Racism and homophobia are all too common in the swimming pool
"Is water racist?"
reminds me of this classic Bill Burr standup bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJlE2BxQfA
You lie, racist!
Your truths are racist!
EVERY truth is racist!
REEEEEeeeeeeeeee!!!!
You've figured out the entire Democratic platform
I once travel through the Pacific Coast Highway and I couldn't believe the differences in environments between Newport Beach (where the super rich lives), Huntington Beach (where you saw the Trump rallies) and Long Beach (a bunch of homeless). Same road!
And in a exactly-on-the-nose incident, a chunk of it just fell into the ocean.
https://archive.is/Hv3nh
Good. Stupid should hurt.
It's even more stupid as Costco and Fred Meyer (Kroger) already have been paying a $2.00hr covid "hero" pay increase. Source fam who work there.
Not in my state. They did for about the first month or two. Then a onetime bonus after that. Kroger is union, but I imagine they argue for different things in different areas. I don’t work for Kroger, but for a subsidiary to them specifically that matches everything they do. (Like a contractor, basically)
Ah, ok. Yeah, they all seem to have some regional autonomy.
This is California plan in action. Drive out businesses, shut down economy, force feed Democratic Donor Businesses (Big Box Stores/Fulfillment Centers) create and foster homelessness which in turn drives out families and tax paying republicans then import new voters and sell the now depressed real estate to the Chinese. And just like that you a New China with South of border slave labor that votes Democrat for handouts.
This is what the "$15 an hour" wage increase would do. It will destroy existing jobs and remove businesses because they can't afford such huge wage spikes for EVERYONE.
It closes smaller businesses so giants like Amazon can control even more
Exactly. Amazon can afford that, but smaller businesses cannot.
Turn them into private clubs like Costco.
Yes because Costco is so good right now ?
You don’t want to be costco. You want to be private. You can deny entry. Make your grocery experience super exclusive.
Let the mass exodus from Cali...begin!!!
Let them eat their TDS farts.
Becuase people don't need to eat, you know.
COVID paranoia will sustain us!!!!!
can't require more pay when your mandates limit your operations
Is this on top of Biden’s new higher minimum wage hourly rate?
Turns out that just raising minimum wage doesn't mean that companies are just making more money.
Not every location is making the same income and some may be scraping by, especially with property prices in California.
fight for 15 beans
top kek
Successful leaders drive up wages naturally.
Failed leaders have to force higher wages with laws, and by doing so, they actually put people out of jobs.
They are purposely doing this to shut out other competitors and to get rid of small businesses. That way the only companies left are all the elite companies. Which actually translates into the “woke” companies. They absolutely know their policies won’t work and people will leave their state. They just haven’t looked beyond that which is no income for their state. But no worries- as long as they have a president that will just hit the “print money at jet-speed” bottom to save said failed states, were golden. All attention to red states- guess who’s left carrying the water on that??
Can't fix stupid.
Look, I'm all for fairly compensating employees especially during times of economic strife and pandemic craziness. Life is hard as it is, and the Kung Flu is making it harder.
That said, it appears that the left will NEVER understand simple economics. They think money just appears out of nowhere; probably a side effect from the federal printing press that we run at full speed. These regulations that are intended to help end up disrupting the market in other ways and usually cause more damage than they prevent.
Problem is... all these CA people are moving to Idaho. GTFO. We don't want you. We are full.
What do you mean for nothing , follow the money businesses pay more to employees per goverment mandate there fore more tax money collected more money for these corrupt fucking politicians
"Kroger hates heroes." - CNN
Now comes the Pain.
Didnt realize kroger made it all the way out to commiefornia.
Ralphs, Dillons, Smith's, King Soopers, Fry's, QFC, City Market, Owen's, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Mariano's, Fred Meyer, Food 4 Less and Foods Co are all Kroger owned grocery chains.
People never seem to understand the cost of a higher wage. They actually think they won’t have to work harder when half the people get laid off and the other half have their hours reduced and have to pick up the slack.
The morons who will cheer when Lyin' Pervert Biden enacts the $15 minimum wage will be crying once the robots start flipping burgers.