Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gump is most likely closing.
“The ramifications of Covid policies advising people to abandon their offices are only beginning to be understood. Equally devastating have been a litany of destructive San Francisco strategies, including allowing the homeless to occupy our sidewalks, to openly distribute and use illegal drugs, to harass the public and to defile the city’s streets,” he wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/business/gumps-store-open-letter-san-francisco/index.html
Good riddance! Gump is now owned by a corporation who fired many works when they took over. The CEO is a republican who lives in Park City, Utah.
Ahhh. Since the CEO is a Republican the company must be condemned. What say you about these other businesses?
From the CNN link above…….
Gump’s would be one of many retailers in San Francisco’s downtown Union Square neighborhood to close its doors in recent years.
Well-known chain stores like Whole Foods, Anthropologie, Office Depot, and CB2 have also ceased operations in the city’s downtown since the start of the pandemic. In total, more than 39 retail stores have shuttered in San Francisco’s Union Square area since 2020, according to a tally from Coresight, a market research firm.
They guy is a hypocrite. He whines "The ramifications of Covid policies advising people to abandon their offices are only beginning to be understood" all while working from Park City, Utah. He doesn't even live in San Francisco so he doesn't physically go into work yet is mad that other people aren't going in to work. He moved the company's warehouse, fulfillment center and direct-to-consumer infrastructure to Salt Lake City and fired 2/3 of the workers when his investment company took over.
Anonymous wrote:Check out this vibe shift in California. Newsom is like, y'all I'm trying to clear homeless camps but the courts are fighting me:
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1696600790188822690?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Also, note that he seems to be nodding in agreement with Elon Musk. So I guess California misses it's former position as the undisputed home of tech.
This is a very interesting and welcome development.
Anonymous wrote:And what do you suggest they do to fix it, PP? Lock up every man, woman, and child on the streets in a for-profit prison?
Anonymous wrote:God, some of you are a bunch of weirdos. If you don't live in SF or plan to, why are you obsessed with what's going on there? It's SUPER weird.