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

[grundle]

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.

[Organic Panic]

“and finds such stores could even turn a profit.”

Another government “investment”

[No name given]

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

[Apparatchik]

Because government-run is waaaay better than that nasty ol’ capitalism.

What could go wrong?

[Jonty30]

Of course the city sees the need to own a service, after allowing private operators to be driven out.

[MinorityRepublican]

[SaveFerris]

[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.

[frank ballenger]

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.

[FreeReign]

Chicago inches closer to a city-owned grocery store after study finds it ‘necessary’ and ‘feasible’

All part of the plan.

[cgbg]

The theft will be massive at the loading dock...omg.

[napscoordinator]

The amount of EBT money brought in will definitely make it profitable. It will be interesting to see how they deal with shoplifting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[linMcHlp]

R U Steal Here Grocers

[SaveFerris]

[“decades of structural racism"]

Oh, good. A buzzword for the masses.

When in doubt.......

[CatOwner]

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.

[PeterPrinciple]

“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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yep, changing the risk is a novel idea.

[Hambone 1934]

Then when the looters take everything and there are no jobs for blacks,and the stores shut down, it will be Trump’s fault........

[G Larry]

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

[twister881]

“I don’t have an EBT card, but here is my G-U-N card. Hands up!”

[RedMonqey]

It won’t be a problem because the “owners” have deep access to taxpayers pockets!