Saporro has mismanaged this from the very start, they had no plan when they bought the company and will almost certainly turn to victim blaming and crying foul amidst their successful unionization effort in 2019.
Anchor is being dismantled by a corporate entity ten thousand miles away in Japan and arguably its dismantlement was foretold, and inevitable, when it was acquired. The time to grieve over it was when they sold it.
SF has been having problems -- big problems -- sure, but there's still a lot of good here.
I'm bummed Anchor is disappearing, but not because I particularly liked their beer. Maybe iconic brands shouldn't stick around if they don't really bring all that much interesting to the table anymore.
Of course Anchor didn't exactly maintain its own "soul" on the way down to this end, selling to larger owners and eventually foreign ownership, and more recently abandoning their old logos and packaging. So it's not totally playing fair hearkening back to their proud history and all that.
Meanwhile, I have two great small breweries within an easy walking distance of my home in the Dogpatch (not far from where Anchor is/was): Harmonic Brewing and Olfactory Brewing (the latter of which just opened a few months ago).
It's always a shame when an iconic, century-old brand disappears, but it's not like Anchor's beer was all that unique or interesting.