Warren: Mamdani’s Gov’t Grocery Store
Idea ‘Has Had Some Real Successes
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Ian Hanchett
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Posted By: mc squared,
7/18/2025 10:39:16 AM
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that the government grocery store plan from New York City mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) is “a new and fresh plan for New York City. But it’s been tried in other cities around the country and has had some real successes.”
Warren stated that Mamdani “said, we’ve got a problem with entire food deserts where people can’t get access to grocery stores. He said, I’d like to take a look at whether or not we can have some kind of — like we do on military bases — you have some kind of support from the city government
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When was the last time you heard of a base PX being looted? Just when I thought she had quit digging, she opened her mouth again…
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/18/2025 10:51:20 AM (No. 1979210)
The reason places are food deserts, specifically in urban areas, is because of excessive theft in the stores. Socializing the stores isn't going to change that. Grocery stores run on razor thin profit margins. That's why they left.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 7/18/2025 10:54:00 AM (No. 1979213)
Want a government grocery store? Be prepared to guard it 24/7 from shoplifters and Soros rent a mobs.
Also, institute a rigorous hiring process to ensure decent employee who will show up to work at time and not loot the place after hours. The cost to implement a successful government store is a lot higher than projected.
It has never worked and never will. Yes, there may be a functioning such store somewhere, but I expect that the inventory pales in comparison to the national chains.
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Warren is an idiot. Military bases PXs don't tolerate shoplifting ... stealing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/18/2025 10:59:38 AM (No. 1979218)
She'll say anything.
Forked tongue, etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/18/2025 11:00:19 AM (No. 1979220)
At the Cherokee Trading Post.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 7/18/2025 11:03:17 AM (No. 1979222)
Warren is another Stalinist who is kept barely in check. Evil, crazy, destructive woman.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/18/2025 11:08:06 AM (No. 1979223)
"Pocahontas" and her mental skills.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 7/18/2025 11:08:46 AM (No. 1979225)
Please provide examples where gov run grocery stotes are successful.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 7/18/2025 11:13:06 AM (No. 1979226)
Please, please let there be a city-run grocery store in NYC! It would be comedy gold and provide a valuable education to those voters on the left edge of the IQ bell curve.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/18/2025 11:19:32 AM (No. 1979230)
How typically Democrat - myopic, impractical naive. In short downright stupid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/18/2025 11:21:40 AM (No. 1979236)
Fake Squaw be putting wacky weed in her peace pipe again.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 7/18/2025 11:22:17 AM (No. 1979237)
Govt owned business's is how " democracy " works? Her brain has finally rotted through.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/18/2025 11:33:36 AM (No. 1979246)
That nutjob would never shop there even if there were un-stolen goods left on the shelves.
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WHERE, Lizzie, have there been "real successes"? Which cities? Name them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
greyseal 7/18/2025 12:00:16 PM (No. 1979265)
Sure, Lizzie - let's open grocery stores in NYC that are guarded 24x7 by the military in the middle of a compound surrounded by razor wire. Y'know, just like a military base PX.
Weapons-grade stupidity...
greyseal
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
volksford 7/18/2025 12:06:28 PM (No. 1979267)
It worked well back on the Reservation
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/18/2025 12:09:41 PM (No. 1979268)
Strangely enough, the music video for 'Caught Shoplifting' by Jane's Addiction comes to mind. Every decade, Communism gets rebranded because of its deservedly bad reputation. Today they call it Democracy. Liz 'Lyin' Squaw' Warren is a Communist.
The only way a grocery store can work in a high crime area is if it's turned into an iron door with no windows where customers bring their order, pay for it in advance, and the workers bring the order out.
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OCJim 7/18/2025 12:13:34 PM (No. 1979272)
FauxcaHauntUs drink too much awkward firewater beers in kitchen with disinterested hubby.
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Newtsche 7/18/2025 12:15:23 PM (No. 1979275)
Could be an object lesson, teach the restless natives the folly of dependence on government.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/18/2025 12:25:05 PM (No. 1979281)
I'm a big no to any business that depends on tax payer dollars to keep prices 'low'. That's like talking to a street vender about reducing the price of hot dogs provided he's allowed to pick your pocket.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/18/2025 12:27:25 PM (No. 1979283)
Elizabeth Warren wouldn't recognize a genuine success if it hit her over the head with a tomahawk.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 7/18/2025 12:32:41 PM (No. 1979287)
Warren would say something like that. I bet she has never entered a grocery store much less one run by people like Newman from Seinfeld's show.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/18/2025 12:39:31 PM (No. 1979291)
#3: "Be prepared to guard it 24/7 from shoplifters and Soros rent a mobs."
You forgot government hired employees. We know how they run things.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/18/2025 12:40:36 PM (No. 1979293)
Poca, since when do you know anything about success? Answer: Zero.
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I believe they have done that - you stand in long lines to get government cheese.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/18/2025 1:06:34 PM (No. 1979304)
A nearby city has tried to solve the 'food desert' issue multiple times by guarantying a profit to the grocery. Trouble is the grocery cannot retain employees who are not safe and no one will insure any property due to the prevailing local culture.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/18/2025 1:19:46 PM (No. 1979310)
One thing is certain...put a really BAD STUPID idea on the table and Lizzy Fauxahauntus is ALL OVER IT like Stink on SchiffT
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
danu 7/18/2025 1:31:29 PM (No. 1979315)
i would not trust liawatha to give me the correct time of day.
this shrieking socialist ,as rfk,jr gently points out, is bought and paid for by the bigpfarm
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/18/2025 4:24:51 PM (No. 1979402)
Where there is a desert where there are no grocery stores there is a reason.
The desert dwellers do not deserve a store due to theft and tribal warfare.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/18/2025 11:52:15 PM (No. 1979435)
Warren seems to think that freeloading, urban-dwelling democrats are entitled to receiving goods and services paid for by hardworking Americans. The commissary idea is an insult to those who accepted low wages and horrible risks to serve their country. I grew up on military bases in the late '50s and throughout the '60s. Most of our military housing was built of cinder block. The only thing separating such housing from the urban projects was the requirement to keep your living space and grounds very clean. My father, a Native American in both uses of the term (e.g., not a foreign born U.S. border gate crasher but an "Indian" who received both overt and subtle forms of discrimination, until the weight of his campaign ribbons, medals for valor in combat, oak leaf clusters, hash marks, and badges quieted most of the comments) had earned our family's commissary privileges by serving throughout the duration of WWII in the Pacific, on carrier-based Avenger aircraft, attacking Japanese ships and shore installations throughout the war, followed by service in the newly minted USAF during the Korean War, flying similar missions on slightly newer aircraft, followed by three tours flying combat missions over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and participating in multiple TDYs during the Cold War, when communists were recognized as the enemy of our country, our freedoms, and way of life. There is no comparison between the men and women serving in our Armed Forces to illegal aliens or criminal aspiring democrats seeking to take their living from taxpaying citizens.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/19/2025 8:16:17 AM (No. 1979500)
Big Chief Lies-a-Lot once again defining "success" as taxpayer-funded goods going to the poor and the lazy. If Mamdani wins and implements this lunacy, the taxpayers will be long gone and the remnants of the population left behind will get nothing, free or otherwise. Once Macy's has been emptied by New York teens there will be no clothing available either. Supply trucks attempting to enter New York City will be hijacked on the way in. Who continues to elect this dunce?
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Hiawatha lowers the bar for stupid.
NYC has grocery stores every 2 blocks, but they can't stay open when their products are being carted away by shoplifters or damaged in riots.