City-Backed Kansas City Grocery Store
Closes Despite Millions in Taxpayer Funding

No need to ask what sort of neighborhood it was built in.

FTA: "due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer, at this time, able to serve the residents of this important community,” It IS in your control, but you're afraid to do what's necessary.

Gee Wally…what could wrong with the swamp, er government, running a grocery store? Better ask Dad.

KC political leaders are the stupidest of the stupid, never get anything right.

The closure will be blamed on racist whites. Can't be anything else.

Another stupid idea at the taxpayers expense

Are you listening, New Yorkers?

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Socialism loses again.

Low information ferals love taxpayer $$$

These food desert ventures don't usually fail from lack of profit (often government guaranteed) but from the inability to ensure the safety of employees and property.

Mamdani had the misfortune to receive his "education" during an era where the median intelligence of the educators is in question. Thomas Sowell first observed this around 2000 when he pronounced Bill Clinton's endorsement of the NEA's "Outcome-based Education" a failure. And it wasn't hard for Sowell to figure out why -- it was because the least bright, least intelligent students went into the teaching profession in the years before Clinton's election (while the brightest became medical doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. etc.). One thing I remember (that my dolt contemporaries who became teachers never learned) was when Nixon attempted nation-wide "wage and price" controls in the early 70s. One example: A 16 ounce cut of steak had a price control. Suddenly no supermarkets sold packages of pre-cut 16 ounce steaks and butchers weren't allowed to make such cuts. Simple: Anything subject to "price controls" will become unavailable. New Yorkers who think they're about to get free or heavily-subsidized groceries will be surprised when famine sets in instead...

Of course its a food desert, who would try to compete with a store that doesn't need to make a profit.

We can advise these idealists all we like but some people just have to learn the hard way, over and over and over again. Karl Marx may have written a popular book full of wishful thinking but George Orwell and Ayn Rand have written much better.

I know I shouldn't wish this on anybody, even New Yorkers, but Mandami's ideas might even be fun to watch as the city goes into a graveyard spiral as pilots call it. Should make a good lesson for other cities contemplating something similar. Not only does NYC's tax base get hammered when people and businesses move but those are the bigger taxpayers thus leaving more of the underclass and non-producers. It's still one of the greatest cities in the world but I am afraid it's only downhill from here. It will take years to degrade it of course. Too much a hub for for things like Wall Street, Broadway, broadcasting, fine restaurants, tourist attractions etc etc. The only hope will be if the city wakes up soon and elects a real mayor, not a communist with delusions of grandeur.

Their 'customers' steal all the good stuff and everything else leaving nothing for their fellow 'costumers'. Beware NYC, 'Mamdani Nirvana' is headed your way.

Expect this failure to be replicated in other blue cities around the country. Also expect city-owned banks, public housing projects, etc. to proliferate in the same places. After all, just because socialism has failed everywhere else doesn't mean the 'blues' won't succeed. (tongue planted firmly in cheek.

If customers pay for what they ‘buy’, there is a chance. But they don’t. KC or NYC.

So..."Sun Fresh Market"....wasn't sp fresh after all the money had been spent...and the hopes of more funds dried up when President Trump stopped throwing money at loosing causes....

And no one will learn from this that needs to.

Millions??! It would have been cheaper just to roll in food trucks or tents and let people pick what they want for free.

Thirty or so years ago, I rode with a police officer friend for an evening in a 'ride along'. One of the locations we were called to was a couple of blocks east of the location of this store, in a 5 or 6 story old brick tenement. This is NOT a nice part of town. We trudged up the stairs on a hot summer night, me only "armed" with a 6 D-cell aluminum Maglight, which is a good approximation of an aluminum billy club. I was forbidden to be armed. As we climbed the stairs, the yelling by many angry black voices got louder, and when we reached the 5th floor common area, about 20 ft square, several apartment doors were open, one wide open, others with people standing in the doorway, looking. My friend and his backup (thank God for backup!) started trying to find out what had happened, as one woman had a bloodstained towel held to her busted lip and crooked nose. More yelling and the officers separated the yellers, and started listening. Eventually, it became clear that "nobody knew what happened".....a lie, of course, but nobody talking meant that our job was done. My friend warned them that if he came back again, he'd arrest everyone in the apartment, which seemed to be six or so people, and let them spend a night in jail and let the judge sort it out. We didn't get called again, and I was pleased to find a piece of blank wall to back up to and observe, with my big flashlight at the ready. A very frightening look into the "belly of the beast", for real, not a TV show. Not a nice part of town, and even while armed, I just don't go there, even in daytime. No upside to being around those folks. Unsurprising that the scum in this area peed and screwed in and around the store, and stole everything.

potemkin city. fall down. go boom. ask kash to find the cash.