re: City of Berkeley bans junk food in checkout lines

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They’re declaring war on fat America.

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I don't know if I'd consider removing the impulse shelves near the registers as "declaring war". Maybe they should outlaw fast food, sugar and alcohol in Berkeley instead? Those make a lot of people fat

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If you want junk food, walk your fatass over to Isle 6 and get it

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Fatties already have junk food in their basket when they get to the checkout line because they actively shop for it.

Regular people impulse buy junk food in the checkout line because they realize they haven't had a Snickers or Slim Jim in ages. Win-win for the customer and store, but I guess government needs to ruin that too.

Great point

This is why you have farmers markets. I'd be okay with sugar tax if we could use it to support local farmers for cheaper fish, meat and fresh American grown veggies.

I do like the the idea of getting people to be less fat.

But this is government overreach in private business.

The real answer is limit what food stamps can buy to just bare essentials and some extra healthy options.

Fantastic idea that needs to become a mainstay.

Maybe even for the simple fact that there will be less crying kids in the checkout Line whining because their mom won’t let them have a snickers.

Those same people are also a huge huge huge drain on our medical system. Diabetes and heart problems arise and one could probably argue that it would be more cost effect to give healthy credits for food stamps to make fresh veggies more affordable because they are on Medicare and require costly medical treatment

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This is a massive win for consumers

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By removing what they want from the checkout lines?

Then junk food shouldn’t be allowed to be bought with government assistance programs right?