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Originally Posted by worth
The problem I have with this is that it doesn’t do anything to help solve the problem. It just pushes people to find other areas to congregate, where more anti-human structures will be built. If Safeway/Sobeys wants to help instead of making it someone else’s problem, maybe they could partner with the city to fundraise for social programs, substance abuse programs, low income housing etc.
The people that these structures are meant to remove are some of the most vulnerable in our city. Pushing them to some other area by creating these installations will only separate them further when we need to be doing our best to support them.
Additionally, these structures take away from the sense of community we are trying to build. I think a lot of us have romantic ideas of European squares where locals hang out. That's part of what makes a city interesting and beautiful. Anti-human installations are hostile to that idea.
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Eff this opinion so hard. It's not Safeway's role to take their hard-earned money, thereby making them less profitable than their competition, to help lowlifes. Those bums have been costing them money for years. Maybe the people that live inner-city are used to running a panhandler gauntlet when they need to pick up some milk at 8:30, but to everybody else it's
extremely off putting. There is no doubt whatsoever these bums cost that store customers, and now you want them to spend even more money on the bums? Not their job, dude.
Safeway should endeavor to attract customers to their store. These people are completely counter to that. There is nothing romantic about having toothless bums accosting you. It sucks they are pushing them to be somebody else's problem, but TS.