Chicago mayor to build city owned grocery stores for "equity"

[blue2golf]

Chicago's Dem Mayor Brandon Johnson now wants to create city-run grocery stores to promote 'equitable' access to food after Walmart and Whole Foods close stores​

• Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to open municipally-owned grocery stores in Chicago
• New store comes after Walmart announced in April that it was shuttering four outlets across Chicago because they were not profitable enough
• Mayor's plan received a mix response online with some describing it as communism....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-Brandon-Johnson-grocery-stores-Walmart.html



Things just keep getting worse....

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[Mgderf]

"Let's go Brandon"!

 

[Mgderf]

Chicago's Dem Mayor Brandon Johnson now wants to create city-run grocery stores to promote 'equitable' ​

• Mayor's plan received a mix response online with some describing it as communism....

I can only imagine

 

[JettaKnight]

So, Chicago wants to sell their parking, but get into the grocery business?

 

[MCgrease08]

Central planning always works out so well.

 

[Noble Sniper]

I remember seeing government run groceries…. Where was that?? Hmmmm oh yeah the USSR.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Nothing good can come from this.

 

[Mikey1911]

I remember seeing government run groceries…. Where was that?? Hmmmm oh yeah the USSR.

Yep, the old Soviet-owned "department stores" called GUM.

 

[rosejm]

I find it hard to believe that we'll start building grocery stores right next to the fireworks, cigarette and liquor outlets just across the border...



...but I've been surprised by market forces before.

 

[Butch627]

So wrong on so many levels I can't believe it is in any way lawful. I don't think anyone could accurately count how many levels of corruption, miss management, thievery, etc that could be wrapped up in that project. Aside from Walmart leaving the city subsidized a plaza in Englewood that included a Starbucks and a Whole Foods. As soon as the contract was up Whole Foods closed up as fast as they could.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I wonder what kind of loss they'll be taking due to mismanagement?

I mean, forget the looting. I'm talking not marking stuff up enough, paying workers a "living wage", overdelivering benefits without properly charging them enough on their paychecks and having to absorb that cost, etc.


When you spend all your time harping on how greedy the private sector is and how they dont give enough to the working stiff, you KNOW they are going to follow the pie in the sky logic and try to prove to us how well socialism works.

 

[Nugget]

The grocery business runs on razor-thin profit margins, typically around 2%. It's a volume business that has to be run with unbelievable precision and efficiency. Size, scale, supplier relationships, and buying-power are the name of the game. When the government steps in, they'll bring none of that to the table. Taxpayers will end up footing the bill for a money-losing organization, the same way Indy residents pay for the IndyGo busses they don't use.

 

[Butch627]

Its a given it would lose money. What about super sales or food giveaways sponsored by the alderman or candidate the day before the election

 

[ditcherman]

Nothing good can come from this.

It has to get worse before it can get better.

 

[ditcherman]

So wrong on so many levels I can't believe it is in any way lawful. I don't think anyone could accurately count how many levels of corruption, miss management, thievery, etc that could be wrapped up in that project. Aside from Walmart leaving the city subsidized a plaza in Englewood that included a Starbucks and a Whole Foods. As soon as the contract was up Whole Foods closed up as fast as they could.

Is this any different than Indianapolis building a hotel?
Maybe worse because there are still hotels trying to compete in Indy!

 

[dieselrealtor]

I believe this has been part of the plan all along.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

So people don't have to steal TVs, to buy bread.

 

[Cynical]

I’m assuming he’s using his own money to make food more available.

 

[cobber]

Chicago's Dem Mayor Brandon Johnson now wants to create city-run grocery stores to promote 'equitable' access to food after Walmart and Whole Foods close stores​

• Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to open municipally-owned grocery stores in Chicago
• New store comes after Walmart announced in April that it was shuttering four outlets across Chicago because they were not profitable enough
• Mayor's plan received a mix response online with some describing it as communism....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-Brandon-Johnson-grocery-stores-Walmart.html



Things just keep getting worse....

Taxpayer supported shoplifting?