'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores

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'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores
finance.yahoo.com

The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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Wal-mart regularly closes stores that try to unionize.

Whole Foods is a division of Amazon, and their store decisions generally float around hurting labor until labor gets fed up.

But that is only the pattern that both of those employers have shown repeatedly for years now so maybe I am prejudice against companies owned by multibillionaires.

It sounds like you do have a prejudice against those store chains. Those stores were closed because there was an insanely stupid amount of theft.

Funny how that's the same excuse used by stores in my area that were trying to unionize. Weird that these two things always seem to align. It's almost like monopolies are bad

Vote qith your wallet

Oh my fucking god dude.

FOOD DESERT

By definition there is little to no choice for these people.

They do, but Walmart has about a billion more votes.

Source?

Their official statements etc. The one in Chicago hadn't been turning a profit for 18 years due to theft.

Now show me the investor reports where they say the same thing, if you can find them

Go look for em yourself lol. You don't mean shit to me I'm not doing anything for you

Look at my link dump elsewhere here where people did in fact check. Tldr they're lying

So you think they went "hey it's only been 10 years, this theft problem is going to clear up any time..." ?? Change your username, you're disgracing it.

You are screaming at a brick wall. Assume everyone you talk to here is a tankie or at least a commie.

Americans going to the government owned post office that isn't profitable: Wow, I sure am glad that there is a way for me to send and receive mail, it's a service everyone needs.

Americans considering the government opening a grocery store that might not be profitable: This is totally unsustainable and there is too much stealing for this to exist. People do not deserve access to a conveniently located grocery store.

A lot of people do critize USPS, several years ago Republicans tried to privatize it but there was heavy push back. It's not exactly hypocritical here.

I'm not sure where I said that 🤷‍♂️

Implying that a government opening a grocery store in an area because companies closed thiers being some sort of extremist commie take when the government already does this with things like libraries and postal offices and nobody bats an eye.

I always try to forgo people's political stance and just debate them on issues as humans. Sucks that these particular humans ignore everything that doesn't fit their agenda and they all have no fucking responsibility and claim innocence and blame everyone else. It's pathetic.

If you actually debated people as humans maybe you'd have some empathy for the common people affected by this issue rather than bootlicking

Not selling something is usually less profitable than selling something, it's not bootlicking to say there may be a reason so many stores closed.