Democratic Mayor Proposes Government-Owned
Grocery Store For ‘Racial Justice’
Daily Wire,
by
Amanda Prestigiacomo
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/24/2023 8:20:28 PM
Chicago’s Democratic mayor has announced a partnership with a far-left non-profit to advance his proposal of a government-owned grocery store, which he argues is needed for the sake of “racial justice.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a press release this month that the city-owned grocery store — which would be the largest of its kind in the U.S. — is needed to address the exit of corporate grocery stores and promote “food equity.”“[F]ood access and security link directly to environmental and racial justice,” Johnson’s office said in a press release, adding that “37% of Black residents and 29% of Latine/x residents are food insecure,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/24/2023 8:24:10 PM (No. 1562718)
Gimme dat
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 9/24/2023 8:26:16 PM (No. 1562720)
Call me cynical but I’ll bet the mayor gets a cut.
21 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 9/24/2023 8:28:45 PM (No. 1562722)
I hope they don't plan to charge everyone for their products. Will probably depend on the race of the customer, now that would be “racial justice” to a rabid racist.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/24/2023 8:29:00 PM (No. 1562723)
Those government run grocery stores are great. Just ask any Russian
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bamboozle 9/24/2023 8:31:35 PM (No. 1562729)
Will they all be union shops?
11 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/24/2023 8:39:39 PM (No. 1562735)
When that ‘equity’ store is looted what will replace it?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/24/2023 8:40:46 PM (No. 1562736)
Bet the uinder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/24/2023 8:41:39 PM (No. 1562740)
Robbed out in less than a month and the taxpayers will be asked to re-stock every week for the next fifty years. I didn’t used to be a racist but, I am afraid I am now, I am conflicted, the blacks I grew up with in the forties were the best people I knew...Church going Christians then I became an admirer of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas et al. I am ashamed when I see the relentless crime and murder going on in the black community and the “Nword” jumps up in my mind. The main reason is the destruction of the black family by the left...money for unwed baby mamas but not for a stable black married couple. A real tragedy and I don’t see an end in sight.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/24/2023 8:48:14 PM (No. 1562747)
Will the rest of 'racist' America get to restock after the looters finish? Asking for a friend.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/24/2023 8:51:01 PM (No. 1562748)
OMG, I did not think anyone could be dumber than Lori the black, liberal, lesbian from Chicago. I was wrong. If the stores could run their businesses without being robbed blind (by blacks) and register a profit they would locate in the community and stay there. I have said numerous times that the black community is their own worst enemy. The current idiot mayor can throw out all the % numbers he wants. But this is black on black crime, this is their fault. And until they get a grip on their behavior nothing will change. This is your fault and only you can do something about it. Might I suggest stay as far away from any big city as you can get.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/24/2023 8:56:11 PM (No. 1562752)
What’s this idiot gonna do when the Amish loot the store down to the bare shelves within 72 hours and create a “food desert”?
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The imbecilic mud people are "food insecure" because their criminal behavior and actions caused the stores to close up and leave. There is NOTHING just about forcing white people to pay additional taxes in order to put another store in a neighborhood that will lose ,money due to continued theft.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 9/24/2023 10:22:30 PM (No. 1562793)
At least 25% ofvthe funding for this "grocery store" will mysteriously disappear, bet on ut.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 9/24/2023 10:37:39 PM (No. 1562800)
In the name of 'equity', the retail prices will be 50% of the wholesale prices.
Ya gotta love outcome-based government math.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/24/2023 11:30:27 PM (No. 1562810)
Also in the name of 'Equity', all the popular items will be offered at a 'Five Finger discount'.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jimincalif 9/24/2023 11:38:00 PM (No. 1562814)
This is going to be great, I hope it happens. All the “stakeholders” (aka busybodies) will get involved. The government stores won’t be allowed to sell beef at all, and only “sustainable” poultry and fish (more $$$). They won’t be allowed to hire security guards, nor call the police on shoplifters. Candy, soda, whole milk, chips, etc., will be banned. The only alcohol they will be able to sell will be Bud Light, and no tobacco products of course, but probably a whole aisle of weed. To buy ethnic food, buyers will have to identify as that ethnicity to avoid prohibited cultural appropriation. Of course no plastic bags will be available to carry food. Plastic cutlery and straws won’t be sold. I can’t wait!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/24/2023 11:39:53 PM (No. 1562816)
Sorry for the 2nd post, but will there be a no crime committed dollar amount like Kalifornia or will they just catch and release like the rest of the liberal dem cities?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ronniethek 9/25/2023 12:50:59 AM (No. 1562826)
This is the true end game. Create a climate where free enterprise won't be willing to operate due to high crime lack of services etc Then THE STATE ie the Marxists get to take over. That's the plan. Working isn't it? See NY SF and CHI.For starters. Philly too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Pearson365 9/25/2023 1:04:02 AM (No. 1562828)
This is just another series of Chicago scandals to come:
A. Salaries and pensions of management will be far higher than what Walmart and other now closed private stores were paying.
B. Few to none of the relatives hired for these positions will have any experience in operating a supermarket.
C, Wholesalers who supply this city store(s) will be asked to charge the store far more than private stores with the gross up kicked back to the connected Dems.
D. Most of the vegetables, fruits, breads and other perishables will be substandard at best.
E. Everything will be stolen since the store doesn’t operate for a profit but for “equity”.
F. Store managers will be the biggest source of theft because they will sell goods to local restaurants and bodegas
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
smokincol 9/25/2023 1:24:05 AM (No. 1562837)
the communists in this country never experienced life behind the Iron Curtain but those people who have and live in our country today certainly did and would probably not hanker for a return to those "good old days"
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/25/2023 2:28:42 AM (No. 1562850)
The free market provided justice when it shut down the grocery stores in communities where theft is normalized.
Where is Brandon getting the money to stock his stores?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/25/2023 3:04:50 AM (No. 1562864)
Blacks drove corporate grocery stores out of their neighborhoods through massive shoplifting that removed the stores' profit incentives to stay open. A government grocery store will not fare any better. To the assclown who now runs the Chicago Zoo, "racial justice" means an unending haul of free stuff, all you can carry.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/25/2023 4:49:38 AM (No. 1562887)
Goobermint owned? Who'd want to shop there. They would probably only sell groceries deemed only fit for people to eat. Like bugs, tofu, etc.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mifla 9/25/2023 4:58:14 AM (No. 1562892)
If a shoplifter steals items valued under $900, do they get to walk out with their loot?
If so, they should call the chain Stop and Loot.
The logo can be a shoplifter running away with his arms full of groceries.
No need for coupons or green stamps, but you do have to bring your own grocery bags.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 9/25/2023 6:11:32 AM (No. 1562920)
Lucianne is a salon, not a saloon. we dont need slurs like "m*d people" here.
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It will fail.
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