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.
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.