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Posted on 9/14/23 at 12:38 pm to Dire Wolf
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All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options.
Why though?
Posted on 9/14/23 at 12:38 pm to Dire Wolf
First is State run media
Now they want state run grocery stores?
How do people not realize this is the beginning of Communism?
Now they want state run grocery stores?
How do people not realize this is the beginning of Communism?
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:12 pm to TexasTiger33
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All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options.
Fun fact, if this was a) feasible and b) profitable, these things would already be there or in the works.
Companies have made sacrifices to try and serve these communities and virtue signal in the process but even that didn't work.
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was six years when this store opened its doors in this community, which is considered to be a food desert on the South Side.
Now, its upcoming closure set for Sunday is leaving many customers disappointed.
The location is one of six Whole Foods stores being closed down nationwide. Another one on the DePaul University campus was part of those closures, too.
"It's just taking away from our community," said Whole Foods shopper, Tiffany West. "We'll go back to a food desert. People will have to travel far to get the food and things that they need."
The 63rd Street location opened in 2016, promising to bring healthier food choices to the area.
At the time, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city committed over $10 million in tax breaks to help make the store a reality.
What's $10MM nowadays? Maybe triple that to get this govt owned store down there.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:15 pm to Dire Wolf
If you didn’t have people stealing daily you wouldn’t have businesses leave. This will end well!
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:33 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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"It's just taking away from our community," said Whole Foods shopper, Tiffany West. "We'll go back to a food desert. People will have to travel far to get the food and things that they need."
Guarantee this shopper and others will happily travel the extra few miles once they realize these municipally owned stores are shite.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:54 pm to Dire Wolf
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63.5% of residents in West Englewood and 52% of residents in East Garfield Park live more than half a mile from their nearest grocery store,
Half a mile? What a struggle
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:57 pm to Yeti_Chaser
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a national non-profit dedicated to building economic power for all Americans, will provide technical assistance in determining a pathway to the first municipally owned grocery store in Chicago
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technical assistance in determining
I mean, how many millions is this "non-profit" going to cost.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 2:28 pm to Purple Spoon
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I mean, how many millions is this "non-profit" going to cost.
And guess who's footing that bill as well?
Whoever said they should just drive trucks full of vegetables around the neighborhood and hand it out for free was dead on. They'd be able to do that for years for what it's gonna cost when this boondoggle is over with. Problem is that that would be too easy.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 9/14/23 at 2:30 pm to Dire Wolf
Huh? Don’t these people eat free and the best of the best, including lobster, on us?
Posted on 9/14/23 at 2:38 pm to Dixie2023
I wonder if they considered surveying those 6 grocery stores that closed to see what the reasons were?
I know, that’s asking a lot.
I know, that’s asking a lot.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 2:50 pm to Dire Wolf
Good. Let's settle this debate once and for all. When it fails and it will, they will have to accept reality and stop lying.
And the Federal government should not have to give one dime for those social experiment. Chicago/Illinois problem.
And the Federal government should not have to give one dime for those social experiment. Chicago/Illinois problem.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 9/14/23 at 2:57 pm to Dire Wolf
Running a city budget does not compare to running a business. It is either self sustaining (read break even for this application) or it is held up by taxpayers. Theft will be rampant and it will fail. Those stores he demonized left because they were not profitable and crime was rampant. That part of the equation has not changed.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:16 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:yeah this always works out grand
The City of Chicago is reimagining the role government can play in our lives
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:26 pm to UncleFestersLegs
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The City of Chicago is reimagining the role government can play in our lives
yeah this always works out grand
Yup, because reimagining the role means it's a bigger one.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:30 pm to Tantal
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Awfully big word salad to describe what will eventually be a taxpayer-funded food bank.
Conservatives: food stamps shouldn’t exist. Poors should just get government beans and cheese from facilities
Conservatives: noOoOoO not like that!!!
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:35 pm to Dire Wolf
As bad as Beatlejuice was, this dude is worse.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:39 pm to Water
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Food stamps but with extra steps
Brah, job creation
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:49 pm to BamaCoaster
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We should all want our countrymen to have access to healthy foods
There is absolutely nothing healthy about what the corporate subsidiary known as the US government pushes as "food".
Canned sugar and cheap carbohydrates. Everyone gets a Walmart scooter because they are too fat to walk and shop.
Frick these people. I can eat solely out of the saltwater creek in my backyard and be fit as a fiddle.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 4:50 pm to Dire Wolf
Cheaper produce will definitely stop them from murdering each other and robbing everyone.
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