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

[actaeon277]

 

[04FXSTS]

I read about Walmart closing some time ago and why. Walmart was not unable to make a profit Walmart had lost around $8,000,000.00 over five years. Jim.

 

[Expat]

Don’t worry Chicago will get the other Brandon to subsidize this.

 

[BJHay]

I think this about sums it up.

“Take all the problems private chains face in low-income areas, then add in amateur management by a bureaucracy, Chicago-style political corruption in hiring and contracting, and a limited range of products,” said Steve Boulton, the chairman of the Chicago Republican Party.

 

[oze]

I think this about sums it up.

I'm thinking that chairman of the Chicago Republican Party had got to be the loneliest, most boring job in the world.

 

[Cavman]

Sure, why not? Indy is getting into the hotel business.

 

[snorko]

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

Hehe, bought a big fur hat there decades ago.

Only way I've seen this come close to working is when the .gov gives the space, or substantially subsidizes the rent, to an operating private grocery entity to make it worthwhile for the operation. But by working I do not mean right or sustainable for the long haul.

 

[OurDee]

I liked my big fur hat, but still sold it. As if politicians in Chitcago weren't stealing enough already.

 

[OurDee]

Because people shouldn't have to leave the neighborhood to collect reparations.

 

[Leadeye]

Another money maker for the machine. Connected food wholesalers in Chicago sell the groceries to the city at vastly inflated prices, kicking back part of this largess to the machine. Taxes and of course federal funds subsidize the difference including operating costs to sell the products at a loss, compensate for shoplifting, and the inevitable niagra of slip and fall claims ginned up by local law firms.

Lots of fanfare about equity and various celebrities will accompany the opening, but as time moves on these places will become pest holes run by gangs and incompetent city non profits. After a few sensational stories on the news about greedy wholesalers selling old or contaminated food and or a big gang shootout between rival factions that kills bystanders, the program will fade away. Like Cabrini Green, the "people's grocery" will join the pile of expensive rubble as the machine moves on to the next scam.

Keep pulling those blue levers!

 

[Cameramonkey]

Sure, why not? Indy is getting into the hotel financing business.

FIFY

 

[printcraft]

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

But they gonna!

 

[printcraft]

Because people shouldn't have to leave the neighborhood to collect reparations.

Why even charge them? It should all be free, like usual.

 

[OurDee]

Why even charge them? It should all be free, like usual.

Yes, it should!

 

[Keith_Indy]

I can only imagine they will end up looking like the secure liquor stores where the cashier/attendant gets everything (b/c there will only be one brand of anything to save costs,) you pay & then receive your groceries.

I imagine this will be called racist by all the usual suspects.

 

[Creedmoor]

I read about Walmart closing some time ago and why. Walmart was not unable to make a profit Walmart had lost around $8,000,000.00 over five years. Jim.

That South Muncie Walmart has about 2 mill a year in theft.
The North store and Anderson are about half of that.

 

[Twangbanger]

Another money maker for the machine. Connected food wholesalers in Chicago sell the groceries to the city at vastly inflated prices, kicking back part of this largess to the machine. Taxes and of course federal funds subsidize the difference including operating costs to sell the products at a loss, compensate for shoplifting, and the inevitable niagra of slip and fall claims ginned up by local law firms.

Lots of fanfare about equity and various celebrities will accompany the opening, but as time moves on these places will become pest holes run by gangs and incompetent city non profits. After a few sensational stories on the news about greedy wholesalers selling old or contaminated food and or a big gang shootout between rival factions that kills bystanders, the program will fade away. Like Cabrini Green, the "people's grocery" will join the pile of expensive rubble as the machine moves on to the next scam.

Keep pulling those blue levers!

Alternate take:

"Aldi surpasses Boeing as #1 Government Contractor"

"...Eat our Dust, Sam Walton."