Posted on 07/23/2025 11:05:08 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“There’s no meat. There’s no vegetables. There’s no nothing.”
Not much of a Cheese Shop, is it? ;)
This time they’ll get it right. (Said every socialist ever.)
Eric is conflating community owned with government owned. There was a good discussion on member owned co-ops recently on FR. That seems like a better idea by far.
“A community-owned grocery store in Kansas City, Missouri, is on the brink of closing as the concept of municipal subsidies for such stores gets more attention around the country due to the New York City mayoral race.”
Government is the enemy of all mankind.
It may work in a small town/county.
Not going to work in a major city like Kansas City or NYC.
I don’t need to preach to the choir, but NY City-run grocery stores are 100% guaranteed to be an expensive failure - because grocery margins are only 1-2% anyway.
The claim that grocery stores are the cause of large price increases are pure theater for stupid voters.
More importantly, big retailers stay alive by squeezing suppliers for price, terms and marketing concessions. Small groceries earn money through specialization, location, long-term industry connections and market knowledge and owner oversight.
Government bureaucrats have zero advantages in all of these areas
Finally, I highly suspect many private suppliers will decline to sell to a NY City run store. nothing worse than having your payments based on political whim.
“surrounded around”
This person needs to “circle back.”
I wouldn’t trust the food anyways.
I’ll keep growing my own, thankyouverymuch.
Does anyone else remember back in the day when the USDA distributed surplus foods directly to aid recipients? I used to think the USDA Peanut Butter was the best when my friend gave me some. I think they used to de distributed via Fire Stations (this was NY in early sixties). Maybe we need to go back to that model instead of EBTs and retailers.
“Well, it’s so clean, sir!”
Because Government is Force. I always wonder what manner of force they plan to use.
Based on the Soviet grocery store model
Agri-business is almost entirely co-op around here. I’ve tried to research the “whys,” having been involved in private ag business.
No community group, as far as I could ever find, has ever pooled the risk and the dollars to launch any such a business, from the farm co-ops to credit unions, to utilities to grocers, to whatever.
Always, they “appear” and then “investors” are invited to become “member owners” for pittances or mere patronage.
The only thing they should get is beans and cheese.
How much USAID money was going to it?
Here’s what we know about ‘commie state run grocery stores’... they have long lines, NOT much product and these stores are not the places the state ‘elites’ shop.
I know people who lived in the old USSR - and they know the lies and the crap commies put out. Ask Cubans...ask them. Ask old people in China and North Korea - all people who knew someone who starved to death.
White liberal elites might buy this crap because they’re stupid and over privileged but most everyday people can smell the evil in communism. Maybe thew idiots at the Washington Post and New York Times fall for Potemkin Villages because they want to...not because they’re decent.
Demographics are destiny.
There’s nothing the government can’t ruin or destroy once it gets its hands on it.
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