23 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. I’m so old… I remember, forty-five years ago, a Canadian leftie telling me, with great admiration, that in Cuba the government delivers your grocery ration to your door every two weeks. In their mind this was progress.

        1. perhaps storage is correct. ie storage for the party elites.
          mimicking Moscow in Brezhnev’s day . . . . .
          can someone explain how rationing and black market and all that managed
          to emigrate from Berlin 45-46 etc to Coobah by 2025?
          ah. right. cumuniiiiiism.

  3. The city of Oakland – together with its communist inhabitants – needs to uprooted, taken out to the deepest part of the Pacific, and sunk at sea. Then it’s on to Berkeley. Starting a gofundme. I’ll be back later with the link.

  4. Whine all you want, Councilors. Safeway is under no obligation to keep the doors open if a location is losing money. Safeway (or a parent company) would be subject to a lawsuit by their shareholders if they did keep that store open.

    I suspect the City Council is trying to gin up enough “virtue-anger”, to coin a phrase, to get a boycott of Safeway going. If successful, Safeway might leave San Francisco altogether.

    Then there will be a food desert, and the only solution will be for the city to open city-owned and operated grocery stores like they are doing in Chicago.

    Any remaining taxpayers of San Francisco will be stuck paying for a chain of free-range food pantries… which will have empty shelves.

    Welcome to Utopia®!

    1. The SF Board of Stuporvisors are a collection of useless virtue signaling special interest minorities. Dysfunctional doesn’t begin to describe their deliberations.

    2. ya no kidding kenji. the rampant myopia in that demographic for a hundred years FAILS to realize these heavy handed tactics mean retails dont go into certain cities and areas IN THE FIRST PLACE so as to not be subjected to the legislative ‘communism’

  5. The retail landscape is changing very fast. Ricki’s and Cleo’s are in bankruptcy. I went there on Thursday to check out if there were any bargains to be had (the closing was announced last weekend). The store looked as if vultures had picked it clean and there were only small sizes left.
    I am an anomaly for a woman in that I do not like shopping. If a garment is not in my size or a colour in which I look good or does not fit into my current wardrobe, I do not buy it even if it is considered to be a “bargain”.
    Here in Regina, there are no food stores other than heavily fortified corner variety stores in North Central and Heritage – they are food deserts as well. Businesses are NOT sentimental, if something is not working, then out it goes.

    1. You’re like my delightfully “low maintenance” wife. She hates shopping … in person or online. And she doesn’t cook. I have to do ALL the shopping … including birthdays and holidays for the kids and grandkids. All the grocery shopping. She loathes going to COSTCO. And I do ALL the cooking. Oh well, she makes up for it by doing things I loathe … like cleaning house.

  7. Nothing stopping Dem politicians from investing their own money in a new grocery store chain that specializes in locating stores in black communities.

    Dems continually whine about how grocery stores make exorbitant profits. It’s time they invest their wealth and benefit local communities.

  8. Let me describe THAT Safeway, in THAT location in SF … on the edge of Japantown. A couple of years ago, when the COVID supply chain disruptions were still playing havoc with the supply of building materials. The CLOSEST Benjamin Moore dealer in the Bay Area that had a supply of the oil base paint I needed was in an outdoor mall that shares the parking lot of that Safeway.

    I parked in the outer reaches of the Safeway lot, and headed for the outdoor entrance to the mall. As I approached, I heard loud rap music blaring from speakers placed on top of a car that was parked, blocking the pedestrian entrance into the paint store mall where I was headed. All the car doors were open, further blocking my pathway … and a black man was seated in a chair by the car holding a retractable leash. At the end of the 30ft. retractable leash was a nasty-looking 120 lb. pit bull. The dog was snarling as the seated black man teased it by feeding out leash then yanking it back.

    I had to walk right through the dog’s kill zone, to get to the paint store. I don’t scare easy … but this was a demonstrably dangerous situation. And it appeared as though this black man, his dangerous dog, and his blaring rap was … his spot. His daily setup to scare the normies. And the frontage of Safeway was filled with drugged-out, semi-conscious “unhoused” derelicts.

    Yeah … this is the same neighborhood that was home to Winterland … the famous indoor Rock venue of the 60’s and 70’s … where I safely and securely attended as a High School kid. Well … that peaceful and joyous era is long gone. Now this neighborhood is a shitshow of crime, HARD drugs, and criminals menacing the residents. There was no sign of police anywhere. I will never go there ever again. Absolutely disgusting. What took Safeway so long? And is that why Safeway has jacked-up the prices sky high in my quiet, peaceful, suburb?

    1. It’s destroyed all but the most insular, wealthy, communities in CA. I have predicted that we will soon be putting up walls around those enclaves … just like they HAD to do in medieval Europe.

      1. far out. l took a personal interest medival history course in 2020-1.
        this keeps up lm gonna see it all live. lol

  12. I’ll make one guess at what no black politician is saying about this: “What a great opportunity! I’m going to take over that building and run a grocery store there.”

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