Shopping for food at the government store...
Posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:09 PM PDT by grundle
CHICAGO — Nearly a year after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration floated the possibility of opening a municipally owned grocery store to help improve food access on the South and West sides, a feasibility study created for the city describes a municipal grocery model as “necessary, feasible, and implementable.”
The study recommends the city pursue some version of a municipally owned store or stores — and finds such stores could even turn a profit. It also suggests the city not attempt to operate a supermarket itself, but rather partner with a for-profit operator, a non-profit operator or a co-op.
Private grocers have shuttered a number of supermarkets on the South and West sides in recent years, leaving many residents with significantly diminished access to fresh groceries.
In an interview with the Tribune, city policy chief S. Mayumi “Umi” Grigsby said internal and external working groups will now work on finalizing a proposal for a store or stores. The city would then be ready to apply for funding for such a project, including from a new $20 million state grocery initiative.
“We truly believe that public options can increase access, affordability and services in areas where government really should be leaning in and leading the way,” Grigsby said.
The report says that “decades of structural racism, segregation, and disinvestment have led to diminished resident density, disposable income, and community infrastructure,” which makes it difficult to attract and retain grocery stores in certain city neighborhoods.
“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.
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Regards,
“Yes, the residents will rob the store till the shelves are bare.”
If there’s anything left after the employees get their share.
If any of them pay or have paid taxes......
I have a feeling they make a “profit” by the billions of tax dollars that will bail out the Chicongo owned grocery store.
So... Govt paid for groceries being bought by govt paid for EBT cards?
I think I may have spotted a problem with this.
I look forward to this and watching the left wrestle with issues like the disproportionate theft of products that go to some ethnic groups and not others, armed robbery, gang theft and the like.
It’s OK when those things happen to private businesses. But not when it happens to government run businesses.
And, of course, fraud and corruption from the officials in charge and from community “advocates”.
And who does the city pay protection money to? Will the preferred gang change when a new mayor is elected?
[So... Gov’t paid for groceries being bought by gov’t paid for EBT cards?]
Don’t worry - Alan Greenspan said we can just “print” as much money as we need - then he was “concerned”
He was for it before he was against it
Actually UBI and controlled food is an EXCELLENT way to coerce compliance with the public / masses ......
Just gotta eliminate cash and then ........the Mark of the Beast becomes a piece of cake (so to speak)
Still, that won’t happen until the middle of the 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ - but I could see them tightening the screws before then - much like the China model that’s already happening (see China’s Facial Recognition video I posted upthread - grocery shopping)
In NY, a city-owned bookie, OTB, lost money consistently. Now a city-owned grocery. It will look a lot like Soviet Moscow.
Another pot of money to be looted by the city’s grifters. I’m sure Washington will pour money into the pot. You know, to help those struggling to feed themselves.
I think it will still happen this way.
This is how the issue of inner city food deserts gets solved. A store is provided and it stays open because it can’t easily be robbed or shoplifted from.
Their largest problem will be having enough of those electric riding carts for those 350 pound underfed pottamuses to get around the store when they “shop”.
Ya beat me to it!
Heck, what’s the penalty for looting from the taxpayers by the Government printing presses??
Then ya get FREE food!
This has been done already...
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sex-tax-what-happens-when-the-government-runs-a-whorehouse
We’ll open a grocery that they can rob whenever they need money
Well, if it's anything like the J6 model...
The government owned store WILL allow shoplifting and THEN they will prosecute!
(Lootie now has left his life of crime and is employed as a greeter at...)
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The display is conveniently by the front door.
Ya can’t keep a good man down!
“is that the city creates phony agreements with nonexistent suppliers and city insiders just steal all the money and no groceries ever appear in the store at all.”
Already being done for a long time at the federal level. Remember “shovel ready jobs”? Or the billions spent by Kamala-Joe for “border security”?
They identify a need, take money from the treasury under pretext of the problem then ...pocket the money.
Wholesale plunder. Like with S. American countries, until the currency is worthless like Venezuela, Argentina, etc.
It’s a global problem. Except in Muslim countries. Not that they wouldn’t try it it’s just that corruption is only for the leaders and their families. Those not-connected get executed.
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