Just What Chicago Needs, Government-Owned Grocery Stores

NRO ^ | 18 Sep 2023 | Jim Geraghty

[Hambone 1934]

There is a reason that dems want everything race based,EXCEPT WHO PAYS THE TAXES..... Dems don’t want the “”majority “” taxpayers to know what their money is being wasted on.....

[asinclair]

Think "food banks with cash registers." You will order your food exactly like one does at a fast food restaurant, and you pick up your boxes of food at the back. Just watch.

This will be a return to the old West general store model.

[Hambone 1934]

One day those””paying “” people may say to heck with it,I’m going rogue and joining the majority......If no-one pays taxes will the jails hold everyone?????

[21twelve]

I recall an article where some store store invented the shopping cart and to have customers get their own stuff. Nobody did it. Until they started offering 10% off.

[hinckley buzzard]

And the woman who created this legacy now has a job, teaching municipal government to the idiot children at the Harvard day care Center.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...store invented the shopping cart and to have customers get their own stuff...”
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Piggly Wiggly, Memphis, Tennessee, 1916.

[Veto!]

Daley was a great mayor though Dem to the core. At least citizens and businesses got something for the graft they paid him. My dad was one of them.

This guy is a moron.

[vpintheak]

What a crock. Steal taxpayers money for communism, and expect to lose money. If I was a taxpayer there, I’d be livid.

[Angelino97]

Where in the constitution does it say he’s permitted to do such an asinine stunt like this?!

The Constitution limits the powers of the federal government. It doesn't prevent states from doing this. And cities derive their authority from state legislatures.

[dsrtsage]

It may he separate from normal grocery stores but will be totally equal

[slapshot]

Courtesy of Second City Cop.
Prediction on cycle of stupid:

Step 1: City government spends millions to build and open government run grocery stores in the ghetto

Step 2: “the community “ steals everything that isn’t nailed to the floor

Step 3:CPD brought in to provide security and stop the looting

Step 4: Inevitable violent confrontation between junkie thief and popo resulting in junkie catching lead poisoning

Step 5: “Community “ bum rushes” the place and burns it to the ground.

Step 6: “Community “ cries about food deserts and underserved neighborhood

Step 7: Rinse and repeat

[21twelve]

http://historic-memphis.com/biographies/pigglywiggly/pigglywiggly.html

Thanks for the info! Found the article above about the founder of Piggly-Wiggly: Clarence Saunders.

Pretty amazing his rag to riches to rags to riches...(4 or 5 times!) story. He built one store that was ENTIRELY automated, like a giant vending machine. But he built all of the equipment himself and it didn’t work very well and failed.

[lurk]

Somebody slept through their economics classes.

Takes money to ship.
Takes money to buy the stuff from the distributor.
Takes money to run the building.
Takes money to pay the workers.

If they try it, we need lots of cameras to show what happens.

[1066AD]

I remember seeing gov’t stores in Russia in the early 90s, just like your pic, they were mostly empty.

The only ones with lots of stuff were the ones where only foreign currency could be used to pay.

[pepsionice]

See, you bring up a legit point. By the time they argue over this....sugar products will be out....booze/smokes will be out, and half of the people who might use such a place...won’t be agreeable to the city running it.

I might ask...who will be the managers of such a place and how ‘connected’ to the mayor will they be?

[Bullish]

Govt run grocery stores are always very quickly depleted of... well, all the groceries.

[Bullish]

Where in the constitution does it say he’s permitted to do such an asinine stunt like this?!

Hah! It's Chicago man, the city that elects festering rectum boils for mayors.
It's not like it's some civilized city.

[alexander_busek]

Great idea! Why hasn't someone thought of this before?

Regards,

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This boy isn't even up to the low standards of Jackson, Mississippi.

[SaveFerris]

A FReeper predicted this just days ago.

WHAT could possibly go wrong with government controlling your grocery shopping?

And yet some people wonder why I keep telling everyone that the Mark of the anti-Christ Beast WILL come halfway through the 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’.

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