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CHICAGO EXPLORING CREATION OF CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORE FOR FOOD DESERTS
Abc7 ^ | 9/13/23 | Eric Horng

Posted on 09/14/2023 4:11:49 AM PDT by aquila48

The issue of food scarcity and food deserts have led to protests and shined a spotlight on deep-rooted inequities in Chicago.

"It is an abomination to think that 10 miles from Englewood people are living twenty years longer because they have access to things they need," said Ameya Pawar, Economic Security Project.

The non-profit Economic Security Project and the city are partnering to explore the creation of a municipally owned grocery store.

"Really it's filling the gaps for the market and making sure that people have access to all the goods and resources that they need to survive and thrive," Pawar said.

In the past five years on the South Side, store closings have included a Whole Foods, two Targets and three Walmarts. Pawar said the model of offering millions in city subsidies to large operators has failed, but while those businesses were beholden to bottom lines, a city-owned grocery could measure profit in a different way.

"A longer life span, better educational outcomes, and lower rates of disease which over time will save taxpayers money," Pewar said.

Pewar said city-owned groceries have been successful in smaller communities like Baldwin, Fla., but some are skeptical.

"The reason we are considered a food apartheid or in this food apartheid is because of disinvestment, and the disinvestment has come locally from government," said Aisha Butler, Resident Association of Greater Englewood.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; cityowned; food; fooddeserts; grocery; nationalization; peoplesrepublic
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To: Jonty30
Thats basically it. Push private grocery stores put out by undercutting them and then take over food.

The govt. stores will founder, while the privately operated stores will "unfairly" thrive, so the govt. will be "forced" to expropriate and/or shut them down.

"Atlas Shrugged."

Regards,

21 posted on 09/14/2023 4:36:11 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: FreedomForce
It would be amusing to see the city owned stores robbed blind. Tax payers would be on the hook for it, but I’d still like to see the business clueless city officials try to deal with what legitimate business owners have to suffer with.

If it ever gets to that point: They would "deal with it" by smugly smiling and pronouncing it a full success!

And anyone who disagreed would simply "vanish."

Regards,

22 posted on 09/14/2023 4:38:13 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: aquila48

The LAST thing these tyrants want is “longer life span, better educational outcomes, and lower rates of disease”


23 posted on 09/14/2023 4:39:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: aquila48

Food will be denied to progenitors of disinformation.


24 posted on 09/14/2023 4:40:42 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: aquila48

Grocery stores operate on a 2% profit margin. Throw in the Davis-Bacon Act, union wages, bureaucratic red tape, political favoritism, and some politician skim. How much will that now rotten tomato cost?

I can’t wait to see them treat retail the same way they approach governing. Raise the prices (taxes) to increase revenue, or reduce prices (taxes) to increase sales.

Will the security guards be allowed to stop shoplifters or will they just be there to hold the door for them?

EC


25 posted on 09/14/2023 4:42:59 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: aquila48

“It is an abomination to think that 10 miles from Englewood people are living twenty years longer because they have access to things they need,”


It is an abomination to think that 10 miles from Englewood people are living twenty years longer because they do not steal, despect property right and are not violent
so businesses can thrive.”


26 posted on 09/14/2023 4:43:18 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: aquila48

“a municipally owned grocery store”

i.e., Communist-style long lines, empty shelves


27 posted on 09/14/2023 4:44:55 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: aquila48
"This food apartheid is because of disinvestment, and the disinvestment has come locally from government."

Oh, the stupid, it hurts so bad.....

28 posted on 09/14/2023 4:46:04 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: aquila48

Isn’t that what the Soviet Union had during its lowest most depraved period of totalitarian rule?


29 posted on 09/14/2023 4:46:08 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: 9YearLurker
The Mad Max world ain’t going away

Nope--the democRAT 'Wasteland' is only getting bigger.

30 posted on 09/14/2023 4:47:23 AM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I wonder if they will enforce laws against stealing if they owned the store.

It won't be identified as "stealing".

The government will use some other mambo-jumbo words to justify it.

Words like "equity", "inclusion", "investment"

When you elect black democrats to run the city or state you are putting the fox in the henhouse.

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31 posted on 09/14/2023 4:47:29 AM PDT by Iron Munro (An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: alexander_busek

Smart cities.


32 posted on 09/14/2023 4:48:03 AM PDT by dforest
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To: aquila48

“YAY! FREE FOOD!”

Let me explain to you what happens when a peasant steals from the government


33 posted on 09/14/2023 4:48:12 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: aquila48

Bernie told us that we don’t need 23 choices of deodorant, 18 choices of sneakers when kids are going hungry.


34 posted on 09/14/2023 4:48:23 AM PDT by rephope
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To: aquila48

My crystal ball shows empty store shelves.


35 posted on 09/14/2023 4:51:49 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: aquila48

All part of the plan - bankrupt industry and the middle class, nationalize everything, usher in the utopia.
Well, utopia for the ruling class, for the rest not so much.


36 posted on 09/14/2023 4:53:53 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: aquila48

Isn’t that called a food bank?


37 posted on 09/14/2023 4:55:32 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: All

Oh, that’ll be a great success. The government has always proven such a great success at running retail businesses....

And the Chicongo residents will surely show their respect for the government stores that they will refuse to rob, shoplift and loot them.


38 posted on 09/14/2023 4:55:37 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: newfreep

The feral youth gangs and other assorted criminals have caused stores to close down. But we aren’t allowed to say such things.


39 posted on 09/14/2023 4:56:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: aquila48
CHICAGO EXPLORING CREATION OF CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORE FOR FOOD DESERTS

That's a good idea. No one would shoplift from a city owned grocery store.

40 posted on 09/14/2023 4:56:22 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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