Chicago mayor considers a city-run grocery store

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city

The city of Chicago is considering the feasibility of a municipally owned grocery store as a means of promoting equitable access to food following several notable store closures.

www.foxbusiness.com

"All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options. We know access to grocery stores is already a challenge for many residents, especially on the South and West sides," Johnson said. "My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities. I am proud to work alongside partners to take this step in envisioning what a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago could look like."

What's a good name? City Foods? Government Groceries?

If you're going to pile-on Wal Mart for leaving, don't forget Jeff Bezos' (of Amazon, and The Washington Post) Whole Foods left town, too.
Edited to provide a working link

d taylor · Sep 17, 2023

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Will it be free grocies.

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

d taylor said:
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Will it be free grocies.

Signs point to "Yes"

Pommer · Sep 17, 2023

Wings like Eagles said:
Create the crises and then .. never let a good crisis go to waste, pretty soon the Government will be running everything.

If the “free-market” creates “food-deserts” why is it “wrong” for government to step in and eliminate the food-desert?

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

Wings like Eagles said:
Create the crises and then .. never let a good crisis go to waste, pretty soon the Government will be running everything.

"Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' "
- Libertarian POTUS Candidate Harry Browne (1933-2006)
I've used that quote 2X in one week

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

Pommer said:
If the “free-market” creates “food-deserts” why is it “wrong” for government to step in and eliminate the food-desert?

How do you figure that's the work of the free market?

Always in His Presence · Sep 17, 2023

Pommer said:
If the “free-market” creates “food-deserts” why is it “wrong” for government to step in and eliminate the food-desert?

Mass looting mobs are not typically recognized as part of the free market..

Free market means buying and selling, not stealing and looting To the point it is no longer financially viable to do business.

Pommer · Sep 17, 2023

RoBo1988 said:
How do you figure that's the work of the free market?

The free-market exists to serve the community, of it doesn’t then it’s “broken” and government has to “fix things”.
Yes, it generally is better if government doesn’t have to step in and “fix things”, because they usually mess the fix up, but a community needs a grocery store and if commercial-interests aren’t taking care of things?
Government.

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

Pommer said:
The free-market exists to serve the community, of it doesn’t then it’s “broken” and government has to “fix things”.
Yes, it generally is better if government doesn’t have to step in and “fix things”, because they usually mess the fix up, but a community needs a grocery store and if commercial-interests aren’t taking care of things?
Government.

"Commercial-interests aren’t taking care of things" because government does not enforce the laws to protect citizens , as well as businesses. Wal Mart, Whole Foods,, are in business to make money. When theft, and other crime make that impossible to do, they leave.

RoBo1988 · Sep 17, 2023

Oh BTW Happy Constitution Day!
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Bold type is where Chicago, and many other cities FAIL.

Desk trauma · Sep 17, 2023

Ah, a Chicago bad! thread. Been awhile.

USincognito · Sep 17, 2023

RoBo1988 said:
"Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' "
- Libertarian POTUS Candidate Harry Browne (1933-2006)
I've used that quote 2X in one week

How, exactly, has "government" crippled anyone in this case?

USincognito · Sep 17, 2023

Wings like Eagles said:
Create the crises and then .. never let a good crisis go to waste,

I love the commitment of our right-leaning posters to fetishizing and parroting ad nausum something said once 15 years ago. I'm surprised not to see "You didn't build that" yet.

All Becomes New · Sep 18, 2023

USincognito said:
How, exactly, has "government" crippled anyone in this case?

I would say making an incentive to not steal would be a good start.

RoBo1988 · Sep 18, 2023

USincognito said:
How, exactly, has "government" crippled anyone in this case?

By not doing their job. Allowing crime to run rampant that merchants cannot stay in business.

HTacianas · Sep 18, 2023

RoBo1988 said:
Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city

The city of Chicago is considering the feasibility of a municipally owned grocery store as a means of promoting equitable access to food following several notable store closures.

www.foxbusiness.com

"All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options. We know access to grocery stores is already a challenge for many residents, especially on the South and West sides," Johnson said. "My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities. I am proud to work alongside partners to take this step in envisioning what a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago could look like."

What's a good name? City Foods? Government Groceries?

If you're going to pile-on Wal Mart for leaving, don't forget Jeff Bezos' (of Amazon, and The Washington Post) Whole Foods left town, too.
Edited to provide a working link

I don't see how a city-owned grocery store is going to solve the problem. It will actually make it worse. Stores are leaving Chicago primarily because of the crime rate. A city-owned grocery store isn't going to make the crime rate go down. The store will become a loss leader because of crime, it will remain open, and whoever's brother in law has the contract to operate it will continue to make money off of it. But maybe the mob will get involved in it and skim all the profits off of it so if someone is caught shoplifting from it Vinny and Tony will take them out and break their legs. Word will get out and crime will miraculously drop. In other words, the mob will police the stores, which is what the city should be doing already.

RoBo1988 · Sep 18, 2023

Desk trauma said:
Ah, a Chicago bad! thread. Been awhile.

Well please make this into a "Chicago good" story for us then!

USincognito · Sep 18, 2023

Jesse Dornfeld said:
I would say making an incentive to not steal would be a good start.

You laws and police and stuff? I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure Chicago has both of those things.

RoBo1988 said:
By not doing their job. Allowing crime to run rampant that merchants cannot stay in business.

So what's your solution?

All Becomes New · Sep 18, 2023

USincognito said:
You laws and police and stuff? I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure Chicago has both of those things.

Laws do nothing if they are not enforced.

USincognito · Sep 18, 2023

Jesse Dornfeld said:
Laws do nothing if they are not enforced.

Nice platitude. Do you have evidence they're not being enforced?

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