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.
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??