{"id":52841,"date":"2017-05-15T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-california-independent-oil-marketers-association-cioma-reports-bay-area-risks-tidal-wave-of-convenience-store-closures\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T23:38:01","slug":"la-california-independent-oil-marketers-association-cioma-informa-que-el-area-de-la-bahia-enfrenta-una-oleada-de-cierres-de-tiendas-de-conveniencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-california-independent-oil-marketers-association-cioma-informa-que-el-area-de-la-bahia-enfrenta-una-oleada-de-cierres-de-tiendas-de-conveniencia\/","title":{"rendered":"California Independent Oil Marketers Association (CIOMA) Reports Bay Area Risks Tidal Wave of Convenience Store Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 15, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Hundreds of convenience stores and thousands of employees throughout the Bay Area are being threatened by legislation that would ban the sale of certain tobacco products. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg6a0eleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg6a0eleft\" title=\"CIOMA Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CIOMA Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/482907\/CIOMA_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As an immigrant and business owner, I am deeply concerned by this attack on convenience stores and retailers like me. I am just a local, small business owner trying to achieve the American Dream here in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Sanjiv Patel<\/span>, a convenience store owner in <span class=\"xn-location\">Oakland<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The counties of <span class=\"xn-location\">Contra Costa<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">San Francisco<\/span> as well as the cities of <span class=\"xn-location\">Oakland<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">San Leandro<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Gatos<\/span> have introduced overreaching ordinances that single out family- and minority-owned businesses in an effort to score political points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Convenience store owners operate on slim margins and rely on high-volume foot traffic. Tobacco ban ordinances would force the closure of hundreds of locations throughout the Bay Area and put thousands of people out of work,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Dee Dhaliwal<\/span>, convenience store owner in the Bay Area. <\/p>\n<p>Despite claims by organizations that advocate the local bans, new restrictions on convenience stores would not impact the sale of tobacco to minors. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> restricts the sale of tobacco products to persons under the age of 21 and imposes heavy fines on retailers that violate the law. Furthermore, a 2016 study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed that the vast majority of youth under the age of 17 obtain tobacco products from &#8220;social sources,&#8221; including older friends, adult siblings and parents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CIOMA members operate in accordance to the law and often stage their own internal sting operations to ensure that their employees are not selling tobacco products to anyone under the age of twenty-one,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Ryan Hanretty<\/span>, Executive Director at CIOMA. &#8220;Local ordinances proposed in several Bay Area cities and counties aren&#8217;t about protecting youth from tobacco products, they are about scoring headlines and political points at the expense of family- and minority-owned businesses that serve their local communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>BACKGROUND:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Contra Costa<\/span> Board of Supervisors vote <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 23<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">San Francisco<\/span> Board of Supervisors vote as early as <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 24<\/span><sup>th<\/sup>. <\/p>\n<p>San Leandro City Council vote on <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 5<\/span><sup>th<\/sup> (possibly as early as <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 22<\/span><sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>Oakland City Council vote <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 6<\/span><sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><i>CIOMA represents about one quarter of the state&#8217;s 14,000 service stations \u2013 of that total about 9,500 (over two-thirds) are single-store owners.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/482907\/CIOMA_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/482907\/CIOMA_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 15, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Hundreds of convenience stores and thousands of employees throughout the Bay Area are being threatened by legislation that would ban the sale of certain tobacco products. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg6a0eleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg6a0eleft\" title=\"CIOMA Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CIOMA Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/482907\/CIOMA_Logo.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As an immigrant and business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}