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Chicago inches closer to a city-owned grocery store after study finds it ‘necessary’ and ‘feasible’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo ^ | August 12, 2024 | Talia Soglin

Posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:09 PM PDT by grundle

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Instead of locking up the serial shoplifters, looters, and rioters who destroyed many of Chicago's supermarkets and grocery stores, the city government wants to own a grocery store.
1 posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:09 PM PDT by grundle
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“and finds such stores could even turn a profit.”

Another government “investment”


2 posted on 08/12/2024 5:54:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: grundle

That sounds familiar. Where have we seen this before?! That’s right, the Soviet Union.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 5:54:17 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Because government-run is waaaay better than that nasty ol’ capitalism.

What could go wrong?


4 posted on 08/12/2024 5:54:24 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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Of course the city sees the need to own a service, after allowing private operators to be driven out.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 5:56:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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6 posted on 08/12/2024 5:57:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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[Chicago inches closer to a city-owned grocery store after study finds it ‘necessary’ and ‘feasible’]

I’m sure that theft by “customers” won’t be a problem at all.

Nope, not a bit. Should work out swell.


7 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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An Anthony Robbins interview in the 1990s had a visiting Russian saying to an American businessman: “Your government food distribution network centers are far superior in America to what we have.” Meaning, warehouses, truckers and supermarket chains under capitalism.

Now there will be government centers.


8 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Chicago inches closer to a city-owned grocery store after study finds it ‘necessary’ and ‘feasible’

All part of the plan.

9 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:48 PM PDT by FreeReign
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The theft will be massive at the loading dock...omg.


10 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:52 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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The amount of EBT money brought in will definitely make it profitable. It will be interesting to see how they deal with shoplifting.


11 posted on 08/12/2024 5:59:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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12 posted on 08/12/2024 5:59:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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R U Steal Here Grocers


13 posted on 08/12/2024 6:00:12 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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[“decades of structural racism"]

Oh, good. A buzzword for the masses.

When in doubt.......


14 posted on 08/12/2024 6:01:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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The taxpaying citizens in the area will be funding these types of ventures. And when they start to collapse, the costs will be passed along to the whole state and then the Federal government.

People seem to be fine with the government stealing and devaluing their money, or else people would be swinging.

15 posted on 08/12/2024 6:05:53 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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“Grocers are typically unwilling to take the market risk that these neighborhoods present. In the absence of private sector action or commitment to provide sustainable grocery options, it is necessary for the City to play a role in creating and sustaining grocery services in neighborhoods that lack grocery access,” the report said.


yep, changing the risk is a novel idea.


16 posted on 08/12/2024 6:07:29 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Then when the looters take everything and there are no jobs for blacks,and the stores shut down, it will be Trump’s fault........


17 posted on 08/12/2024 6:08:28 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: grundle

“City owned”....and what’s the penalty for looting from a store funded by the taxpayers?


18 posted on 08/12/2024 6:08:47 PM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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“I don’t have an EBT card, but here is my G-U-N card. Hands up!”


19 posted on 08/12/2024 6:09:01 PM PDT by twister881
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It won’t be a problem because the “owners” have deep access to taxpayers pockets!


20 posted on 08/12/2024 6:10:30 PM PDT by RedMonqey (This is no longer America but "Amerika"!)
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