wanted to make was connecting this to the legislation we heard earlier from supervisors mirkarimi and fearrell. the mayor was talking about how san francisco can not provide seed money and control how that company grows. but companies want to be here. employees want to live in san francisco. they do not want to live in los gatos and los altos. we have unix will businesses. we have unique restaurants. we have to keep that, or we lose our competitive a vintage. -- competitive a bandage -- advantage. there are not a lot of small businesses in this area because there are not a lot of employees. this city is unique because of small business. thank you. commissioner clyde: i also want to thank everyone for being here and showing such a great solidarity with this issue and with the small independent stores. the effect of predatory pricing is, and has been demonstrated repeatedly -- one small shops go out of business, then the prices increase and increase. i have some experience with a local safeway that is exponentially higher than other safeway's simply because it does not have any competition in th