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.
That’s about what this would boil down to — bottomless food banks, free for the taking. I’m sure all the prosperous north side liberals will be happy to contribute.
Captain Obvious wonders why liberals never ever get a clue.
There will be immigrants as armed guards and you will need the mark of the beast at the bug food store.
How Communistic! I was able to visit East Berlin before the wall came down and observed several state-owned stores. The one characteristic of all were long lines waiting to get in to stores with very few goods for sales. I saw a shoe store with perhaps 100 people waiting in line to get in the store while there might have been 50 pairs of shoes on the shelves. CONTROL is the objective.
How Communistic! I was able to visit East Berlin before the wall came down and observed several state-owned stores. The one characteristic of all were long lines waiting to get in to stores with very few goods for sales. I saw a shoe store with perhaps 100 people waiting in line to get in the store while there might have been 50 pairs of shoes on the shelves. CONTROL is the objective.
Changing the environment will not change the people and their bad habits.
Change the people and the environment will change.
Liberals have it backwards, as usual.
No, private grocery stores were driven out by mass theft and crime. My daughter was at the U of Chicago, lived near to Englewood until a couple years ago. She had taken to driving to Indiana to buy groceries because the local stores were that unsafe.
I guess if I were to put a grocery store outpost in the middle of an urban “food desert,” I would name it:
Fort Zinderneuf Foods
Staffed by union clerks no doubt with taxpayer subsidies to offset the high costs.
Imagine what East Berlin would have looked like if Chicago blacks were standing in those lines....
:-)
The only folks who will agree to be store clerks in bad areas are thieves in partnership with and protected by local gangsters—there is no way wages can compensate them for the risk of working there.
Cheese, rice, flour and beans should be free. Let them have that. If these animals want meat let them earn it.
The leftists went from calling them food deserts to the scarier, more anti-white term “food apartheid”. It’s still the fault of the people of color in those areas.
Yep - what will change other than American taxpayers to be on the hook for this subsidized shoplifting?
Because free housing and all the other goodies these parasites receive has worked so well.
“Captain Obvious wonders why liberals never ever get a clue.”
It should be obvious that liberals DO have a clue. What makes you think their goal is to solve these problems? It’s part of an agenda and they appear to be succeeding.
You forget one thing, the city has the power of policing those stores to make them look good on paper.
They will have the upper hand because the city will pay for everything, including the cops that will be standing at every door and watching the videos. They also carry the right to detain and arrest the thieves, where they won't even respond to calls made by private stores in the exact same circumstance.
cgbg wrote: “New definition of profit: Everybody steals all your stuff!”
If these stores are run by government, there will be nothing there that anyone wants to steal. Consider the stories of school lunches that the kids through away. Healthy but inedible.
Just like North Korea. Where everybody except the elite rulers starve.
Think bigger.
The reason why they went out of business, due to theft and crime, was because the Democrats wanted a population dependent upon them. What best way to control the population by controlling the food?
By creating policies that do not punish for theft, it increased theft and reduced profits. By reducing profits, businesses closed. By closing the businesses, there was now a need for the government to step in to provide grocery needs.
Straight out of the communist book of nationalizing food.
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