Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants to Open City-Owned Grocery Stores

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants to Open City-Owned Grocery Stores

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 14 Sep 2023

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is looking into opening taxpayer-funded, city-owned grocery stores in areas in which businesses have pulled out due to rampant crime.

Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to look into the possibility of opening city-owned grocery stores. The first step in the partnership will be to perform a feasibility study, but the city did not provide a timeline, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Johnson claimed his administration is “committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities.”

The mayor said in a statement:

    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. A better, stronger, safer future is one where our youth and our communities have access to the tools and resources they need to thrive. My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/14/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-wants-open-city-owned-grocery-stores/

[Wingnut]

Cool. Soviet Russian style grocery stores.  Theft will not be a problem! 

[Kamaji]

[Bigun]

Cool. Soviet Russian style grocery stores.  Theft will not be a problem! 

  

[DefiantMassRINO]

Future headline:  FBI Charges Chicago City Supermarket Officials with Embezzlement, Kick-Backs, and Fraud

Just another grift for a failing city administration.

[PeteS in CA]

Is Doh! Mayor Brandon Johnson really stupid enough to believe that Kroger or whoever is the major grocery store chain owner would shut down stores that are safe and profitable? These boondoggles will become centers for theft and violence against workers (assuming the store can find workers).

Want stores to open up in these areas? Get! Thugs! Off! The! Streets!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

I am reminded of what was once said about Governments in General.  Put them in charge of the Sahara Desert and inside of 5 years there will be a shortage of sand.

[roamer_1]

Trial balloon... Fifteen minute cities...

[sneakypete]

"We iz da wurld......

We iz da peep-pulls.....

Common,sang hit wid me,comrades!

[rangerrebew]

 
Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city
Story by Eric Revell •
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced last week that his administration is exploring a city-owned grocery store as a means of promoting "equitable" access to food, though the plan has drawn criticism from skeptics of a government owned and operated store.

Chicago would become the first major U.S. city to implement a municipally owned grocery store to address food inequity if the proposal advances, the mayor’s office said in a release. Johnson’s office said Wednesday that it’s working with the Economic Security Project, a non-profit group, on a feasibility study that "will help inform the Johnson administration’s emerging food retail strategy, which will receive input from experts, community leaders, and Chicago’s Food Equity Council."

"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."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/chicago-mayor-considers-creating-city-owned-grocery-store-after-walmart-whole-foods-close-stores-in-the-city/ar-AA1gRlbi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8411d575a41947f4806b3d4533ff487a&ei=45

[rangerrebew]

I'm not creative enough to picture how corrupt a city run store in Chicago would be!

[sneakypete]

I'm not creative enough to picture how corrupt a city run store in Chicago would be!

@rangerrebew

Ask someone who grew up in the USSR,China,or Cuba.

[Hoodat]

So what happens when they catch you shoplifting from a government store?  Do they let you go free?

[Fishrrman]

Hoodat wonders:
"So what happens when they catch you shoplifting from a government store?  Do they let you go free?"

There's no worry.
There will be the regular checkout lanes,
The self-checkout lanes,
and (because of "equity"),
There will be special non-paying lanes for the shoplifters.

[rangerrebew]

 
Commie Chicago to have state-run grocery stores instead of a solution to its crime crisis
Opinion by Isaac Schorr
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Urban progressives’ treatment plans for their self-inflicted wounds are always some toxic combination of too simplistic and too roundabout.

Over the past two years, both Walmart (four of eight) and Whole Foods (two of four) have closed half their Chicago locations.

The retailers released boilerplate, euphemistic statements to explain their choices.

“We know the community will have questions about why we are closing these locations,” acknowledged the former.

“The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago — these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/commie-chicago-to-have-state-run-grocery-stores-instead-of-a-solution-to-its-crime-crisis/ar-AA1h1kIT?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=66f6c0d4c684497d87dffd9afbc856fc&ei=20

[LMAO]

So who is going to supply the food for the city run grocery stores?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

And without still solving the underlying problem of rampant theft right? So I'm sure this will be a success.

[Mod2]

Merged threads

[Kamaji]

So who is going to supply the food for the city run grocery stores?

Whomever can bid the cheapest.  It will then be trucked to the City warehouses, where it will be paid for by the city, and theft thereafter becomes a burden on the city's taxpayers.

So, cheap food, of poor quality, just barely fit for human consumption, which will cost the city taxpayer an arm and a leg.

Typical socialist bullshit.

[sneakypete]

So who is going to supply the food for the city run grocery stores?

@LMAO

"Food"???

Who needs food when you can survive on Fairy Farts?

[sneakypete]

And without still solving the underlying problem of rampant theft right? So I'm sure this will be a success.

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

Ahhh,you poor delusional Capitalistic fool!

They are going to survive on Magic Fairy Farts,of course,and they will be FREE!

EVERYBODY will have EVERYTHING they could ever want,and it will ALL be FREE!

Hell,half of them are life-long welfare recipients,so they have spent their whole lives living for free anyhow,so why is this such a big deal?

[Hoodat]

So who is going to supply the food for the city run grocery stores?

Some relative or close friend of the mayor who happens to own a food warehouse.

[Free Vulcan]

VERY NICE!

[Smokin Joe]

[mountaineer]

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge
Mayor of Chicago announces city-run grocery stores to replace the real ones fleeing the city due to predatory city government, collapsing social order, and industrial-scale shoplifting.

It’s worth noting the Soviets tried this and got food shortages. And they put shoplifters in the gulag.

Chicago already has failing schools, failing health-care, and of course failing public safety.

It could get a lot harder to find food in the city. True you can always Uber Eats, at least until the drivers get robbed enough times.

In theory, at some point the voters rebel. In really, in many once-great American cities they missed their chance.
8:25 AM · Sep 22, 2023