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Government owned grocery stores coming soon

Actually

Posted 6:19 pm, 06/05/2024

Who has the MentalTrucker translation app?

|METALTRUCKER|

Posted 5:12 pm, 06/05/2024

Care to elaborate this WHITE label sh?
white black brown yellow red aquamarine
NOBODY CARRRRRES!
ITS 2024 NOT 1964.
move the F on.

antithesis

Posted 2:21 pm, 06/05/2024

Census data shows that Chicago has 2.77 grocery stores per 10,000 people, which is higher than the 2.24 state average...

https://www.city-data.com/c...inois.html

In comparison, Wilkes has 2.70 grocery stores per 10,000 people, so about the same as Chicago.


So it's not an issue of them not wanting to build there... they do.

The issue is that Chicago is mostly pedestrian, so they need stores within walking distance. This becomes a significant problem when you look at deep poverty areas... stores don't build there because the people can't afford the food.

Which I imagine is why you don't see a Whole Foods in Traphill...

Actually

Posted 1:44 pm, 06/05/2024

Why don't stores want to operate in Chicago?

DB Cooper

Posted 1:30 pm, 06/05/2024

I'm guessing the government store stuff will be free to blacks and illegals.

antithesis

Posted 1:27 pm, 06/05/2024

The irony is thick in this thread. Trumpsters want to complain about big government and decry "Communism," while the whole time they've been aggressively demanding... big government and Fascism!

It's almost as if they have no idea what they're talking about...

Regardless, on the topic...

Use the resources that the Government already has, Police and Jail for shoplifters

Let's talk about the actual problem, which has nothing to do with shoplifting. The problem is that places like Save a Lot get big subsidies ($13.5 million from Chicago last year) to open stores, then they just don't do it.


Read that again... people could steal food all day long and never pay for a single thing, and they would still make money!

The goal, of course, is to fleece the city. They've already invested $13.5 million, so at the end of the year when the stores aren't open they'll be pushed to invest another $13.5 million... or just let it go and lose the first round of subsidies.

And we know this to be true, because the same thing happens here all the time. And will almost definitely happen with the new county building.

What do you expect the city to do? Wait a year, let people starve to death, and then invest another $13.5 million in 10 months? Or just take that same money to build their own stores now without the scamming?

If there were no grocery stores in Wilkes... not even dollar stores... and you had to drive to Winston or Hickory to get food, would you be arguing that the county should do something about it?

Or is this another case of "different rules for black people?"

GoNC

Posted 12:30 pm, 06/05/2024

I removed two posts for racism.

tribune

Posted 12:01 pm, 06/05/2024

Somehow it just doesn't jive with weakest against the wall, devil take the hindmost and pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Could it be that some of you Trumplicans are coming round to believing that you should be your brothers' keepers? Nah!

Lester White

Posted 11:46 am, 06/05/2024

Promoting healthy eating and helping businesses (farmers) make more money is hardly a liberal idea

tribune

Posted 11:42 am, 06/05/2024

Careful Les. Those liberal ideas could get expelled from the Trumplican/MAGAT party.

Lester White

Posted 11:32 am, 06/05/2024

A better idea if the government is set on spending money is to open a farmers market and don't charge rent. Chicago residents get healthy food, farmers make a little more money. Win win.

the dog's butler

Posted 10:41 am, 06/05/2024

They could call it SHOP 'n Wait

Actually

Posted 10:31 am, 06/05/2024

Gascon you might not be allowed in the Government store if you are not vaxed and fully boosted.


I know Antithis would encourage the store to have that policy

gascon

Posted 10:17 am, 06/05/2024

Same as the vax, won't shop in one. Could be like the movie Soylent Green.

tribune

Posted 9:49 am, 06/05/2024

I guess they didn't teach political science at f*xxy's private school. By her standards, two of her orange idol's buddies lead communist nations.

Foxnose

Posted 7:01 am, 06/05/2024

When you elect Communist you get communism.


Let's see......Who else has government operated grocery stores, hmmmmm

Actually

Posted 6:49 am, 06/05/2024

I don't know why Democrats would think more Government is a good idea to solve the problem of no grocery stores in the ghetto. Use the resources that the Government already has, Police and Jail for shoplifters

UnoFire

Posted 6:38 am, 06/05/2024

Dumbest post of the decade nominee.

Actually

Posted 6:32 am, 06/05/2024

Democrats love this idea.


They think it proves that we need more Socialism since Capitalism failed the residents in Chicago and other Liberal places.

Anonymoose

Posted 6:31 am, 06/05/2024

Government run store using tax payer funds to fund it . Shoppers can use taxpayers money to buy groceries. Makes sense.

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