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Country star Brad Paisley breaks ground on free grocery store in Nashville
Cox Media via WPXI ^ | April 4, 2019 | Jared Leone

Posted on 04/04/2019 11:15:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country star Brad Paisley broke ground on a grocery store that will offer free items to people in need.

The Store is a partnership between Paisley and his alma mater Belmont University.

It will be located on the school’s campus and operate like a regular grocery store, except when people scan items no money is exchanged.

“(This model) takes away the sting of embarrassment for a parent who maybe feels that way because they can’t feed their kid,” Paisley said. “The kids should not know what their parent is going through. That’s not stress a child needs.”

Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, got the idea after volunteering with their children at a similar store in California.

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To: Purdue77


Isn’t that called a food bank?

food bank doesn't have the word "free" in it, a must for leftists.


21 posted on 04/04/2019 11:31:25 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: JBW1949

“If it’s he and his wife’s money, it’s more than most the rich folk do”

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if it’s his money, then so be it. But he’ll learn a lesson that these moochers are all over the place. Yes, I interned at a gospel mission at Skid Row when I was still at Stanford. 99% of these “homeless” are just damn lazy and that’s a fact. I came in a liberal and came out a hardened rightwinger after the conversations I heard between them..


22 posted on 04/04/2019 11:31:45 AM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What parent can’t feed their kid(s) in America? What are they using all the FREE $ available in America for?


23 posted on 04/04/2019 11:32:37 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Free stuff, just for the asking? What could possibly go wrong?


24 posted on 04/04/2019 11:34:09 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How much money do they have to do this?

No matter, it will never be enough.

I give the venture two years if not government subsidized.

Remember the Panera franchise that told people they could pay whatever they wanted for their purchases?

Gone.

5.56mm


25 posted on 04/04/2019 11:34:42 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Mathews

You are so correct. I worked in a grocery store for several years and it was a lot stricter. could only have unattached 1 dollar food stamps. Change was written down on a piece of paper and you had to “cash” them in on food. With the EBT cards, who knows if you are using foodstamps or not.


26 posted on 04/04/2019 11:36:11 AM PDT by southernindymom
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s one of the once-rare far leftists in country. He even had a song lauding Obama’s election, which he admitted had to be subtly stated to avoid driving away the then-typical country audience.


27 posted on 04/04/2019 11:36:43 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

https://www.fastcompany.com/40582757/why-paneras-experiment-with-pay-what-you-want-dining-failed


28 posted on 04/04/2019 11:37:21 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hope he’s got a clear-cut procedure to determine who is needy and who is not. The government never seemed to be able to do that.


29 posted on 04/04/2019 11:39:22 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“(This model) takes away the sting of embarrassment for a parent who maybe feels that way because they can’t feed their kid,” Paisley said. “The kids should not know what their parent is going through. That’s not stress a child needs.”

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I wonder how many parents with thousand dollar cell phones will take advantage of this idiot.

I hope it’s a lot.


30 posted on 04/04/2019 11:41:09 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I can’t feed my children, but what I really feel bad about is that I cannot scan items and hear a “beep!” at the register. If only I could hear that “beep!”, everything would be all better for my children!


31 posted on 04/04/2019 11:42:22 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Reily

I don’t have a problem with his philanthropy as long as its not using public funds.

But I suspect we will read more about this after he determines that there is a problem with those not truly needy taking advantage of the free stuff.


32 posted on 04/04/2019 11:42:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Kimberly Williams Paisley has always had the rare "girl-next-door" beauty...well, at least since her series, "According To Jim". Appears to be a nice person, too and not a Hollyweirdo.


33 posted on 04/04/2019 11:46:41 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This’ll work as well as the “Panera Cares” stores did, once the bums and freeloaders get its address. Perfect example of how to take a large amount of money, and turn it into a small amount of money.


34 posted on 04/04/2019 11:48:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Good recipe to go broke. They will be overrun by all types when the word free stuff gets out there.


35 posted on 04/04/2019 11:49:49 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: mass55th
Hope he’s got a clear-cut procedure to determine who is needy and who is not.

Don't the really needy get food stamps?

36 posted on 04/04/2019 11:50:08 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And, no one will take advantage of his largess right?


37 posted on 04/04/2019 11:56:27 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This will fail. If it is such a good idea, why aren’t all stores “free”?

Why not give away things free? Why not give a guaranteed basic income to all? Why not free college?

Because you have to have people working productively to produce the goods and money. Those people aren’t eligible for the “free” things. They are stupid to keep working to produce things that are given to those who don’t work. Keep it up, and no one is working and everyone is grabbing free things.

This will fail as all liberal ideas do.


38 posted on 04/04/2019 11:57:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How about needles and condoms too?

What kind of miser is this easy-peasey Paisly guy?

And after we eat? Can we use the crapper in the free store?


39 posted on 04/04/2019 11:58:31 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am reminded of something my grandfather said - “Good thing food costs money ‘cause otherwise, we would have too many fat people.”

And my grandfather was a farmer.


40 posted on 04/04/2019 12:00:25 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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