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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They government could even run a whore house, and they’re going to make a profit in a grocery store?? We are truly being ruled by idiots.
You don’t have to go as far away as the Soviet Union, why just 90 miles from
Key West there are plenty of Govt run grocery stores in Cuba! And just take a look at how well that’s going.
When I visited New York City, I would often eat very reasonably priced fruit sold by stores and street vendors.
We are returning to where a customer presents a list and grocery clerks fill the order then pack it up in parcels and load it on the customer’s vehicles, all after payment done. No customer and product interaction at all.
Orders will be taken from behind bulletproof glass and only released to the customer after payment/ebt is successfully charged.
Oh goody!! Another store to loot and burn down.
That looks like my local Walmart.
“and finds such stores could even turn a profit.”
they think shoplifters won’t do the same to them???
Why use your EBT money when you can get it all for free.......
100,000 a year as a stock boy ain’t bad. Look for the city union label.
Nor will the government stores be spared when there is a riot.
That’s true. lol.
Nationalization is the goal.
We’re returning to Little House on the Prairie days. Oh great….
What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, government will screw everything up.
It will be HEAVILY subsidized to cover all the SHRINK.. loss of merchandise that was taken and never paid for.
“Grocers are typically unwilling to take the market risk that these neighborhoods present”
progressive” euphemism for epidemic and uncontrollable shoplifting and unsafe environments for employees and customers due to police and courts refusing to enforce the law ... how will those factors be any different for grocer stores in those same neighborhoods operated by government contractors?
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