As Overbrook ShopRite closes, owner says two more stores are at risk
As the ShopRite grocery store in Overbrook is slated to close this week after three decades in business, owner Jeff Brown says it might not be the last of his stores to shut its doors due to the city’s sweetened beverage tax.
The tax, he said, ate into a quarter of the store’s revenues since it was put in place at the start of 2017.
But Brown now is putting the city on notice: Two more of his Philadelphia supermarkets are at risk of closing due to lost revenues as a result of the sweetened beverage tax. He called for a repeal of the tax.