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SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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It’s important to note that Anchor as a division is being shut down as a cost-saving measure by its owner Sapporo, a transnational, publicly-traded corporation.

Sapporo says they have tried to find a buyer for Anchor, but to no avail. Meanwhile Sapporo recently purchased Stone Brewing in San Diego and are beginning Sapporo production there while still making Stone beers. If Sapporo hadn’t also bought Stone, presumably their plan was to brew Sapporo at Anchor in a similar way. In that scenario, they probably would have continued producing Anchor beers in some quantity too.

Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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I've heard quite a few SF people say they welcome this, once all the rich dudes leave it might actually return to being a fun and affordable city again. Let's see :)

Those people are delusional. They should see how the doom loop worked out for detroit.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard quite a few SF people say they welcome this, once all the rich dudes leave it might actually return to being a fun and affordable city again. Let's see :)

Those people are delusional. They should see how the doom loop worked out for detroit.

Detroit is now a fun and affordable city.

Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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> According to a press release, the brewery has been facing challenging economic factors and declining sales since 2016.

Well before this "doom loop" shit was coined. Seems like a very long, slow loop if that's the case.

Also, it seems like you created your account to talk about the doom loop on this thread. Edit: no, correction, your account is older but this is the only comment?

Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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A shame they weren’t able to adapt to modern beer tastes. As long as I can remember, I've thought of them as the mediocre beer I’ll begrudgingly drink only if all other options are exhausted.

I thought anchor steam is pretty good. What beer do you like?

Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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This has nothing to do with politics: > “We recognize the importance and historic significance of Anchor to San Francisco and to the craft brewing industry, but the impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to cease operations.” You really think California is "collapsing economically" or are you just t…

I am mostly referring to the exodus of citizens who find California can no longer sustain them economically.

As a result, they're moving in substantial proportions to conservative states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_exodus

There has also been a significant exodus of businesses.

"An exodus of California businesses is gaining steam, with the number of departing establishments nearly doubling from 2012 to 2019"

[2] https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/05/california-business-de...

From [2] ( June 5, 2023 )

"Companies that have moved their U.S. headquarters out of state in recent years include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle, Charles Schwab, CBRE, Toyota and Tesla.

Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Florida ranked as the top destinations for relocating California establishments, the data shows.

The findings resemble those in the Hoover Institution’s latest business exodus study, released last September. The Stanford University institution reported that at least 352 business moved their headquarters out of California from 2018 through 2021, including 11 Fortune 1,000 companies.

“Headquarter relocations are accelerating substantially, with no sign of reversing course,” the Hoover Institution report said. It blames the departures on a business environment “that ranks near the bottom of all U.S. states.”

"RELATED: Tesla’s Elon Musk follows 687,626 Californians who moved to Texas"

Re: SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

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> According to a press release, the brewery has been facing challenging economic factors and declining sales since 2016. Well before this "doom loop" shit was coined. Seems like a very long, slow loop if that's the case. Also, it seems like you created your account to talk about the doom loop on this thread. Edit: no, correction, your account is older but this is the only comment?

The doom loop started when SF became so expensive, it started to price out all the people and culture that made it unique and interesting.

That certainly did start decades ago.

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