19 Comments on Government-funded grocery store flounders in Midwest city as similar proposal gains steam in NYC

  4. DEI staffing and the “manager” is a Democrat political insider.

    Tacoma Hilltop Rite Aid opened to much fanfare in 1999. Millions and millions of public money were siphoned off and diverted into local Democrats pockets. Public/private partnership don’tcha know. It was a shakedown racket as well. The goddamn thing closed in ,2005 and all of the hundreds and hundreds of articles and news stories about it in the late 1990s have been scrubbed from the internet.

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  5. @ Bad_Brad THURSDAY, 24 JULY 2025, 14:07 AT 2:07 PM

    Nope. It served its purpose. Democrat politicians, their campaign contributors and family members cut a fat hog on every one of these goddamn operations.

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  10. We all know it’s bullshit. BUT, what most don’t know is that the communist elites MAKE BANK FOR THEMSELVES in these loser projects. THEY cleverly EMBEZZLE the funds and get kickbacks from suppliers. The losers? – taxpayers, and the ghetto morons who keep voting maxine waters clones who exploit them.

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  13. Stupid, lazy, ignorant, impecunious people. Almost certainly a particular subset of the human genome. To quote my dear departed father, THE ONLY GOOD COMMUNIST IS A DEAD COMMUNIST.

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  14. I don’t get the negative Nancys on this site – my government store is working perfectly. Sure, the overhead is pretty high – my Rolls Royce isn’t going to pay for itself – but that’s what government subsidies are for. I provide the local residents what they need; they don’t need meat (global warming, don’t you know) or produce (do they even eat vegetables?) and we are well stocked with potato chips, chocolate snack cakes, beer and cigarettes. And if the customers don’t like the selection I have chosen, then they can move – just like I did when I opened my government grocery store and could afford to move to an upscale neighborhood.

    Sure, my management fee is similar to that of a CEO of a major American corporation, but…well, subsidies. But I have big expenses with political contributions and other kick backs. And so far as I know, food deserts, like the one I just created, probably don’t contribute to global warming and are good for the environment. We are also DEI compliant with persons of all nationalities and sexual orientation just standing around doing nothing.

    As a side note, respected Americans like Steven Colbert are complaining that their gravy train gig is going away because their employer, CBS, is losing $40 million a year. My government grocery store loses somewhat less than that each year, so really I’m being more responsible than Steven Colbert.

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  15. Imagine a Soviet-style ‘grocery store’ in your Communist city neighborhood run by Communists. No meat, no vegetables. Rude employees who don’t work. Lines and restrictions.

    Who you gonna call?

    A Capitalist?

    Do you think he/she is going to open a store in your Communist Hell hole? Bwahahahahahaha!

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  18. We’ve been to a government-owned and run department store — in China. Poorly made goods, no variety, and by the time you got to the 4th floor of the six floor store, there was a lone pocket watch, used, on display in a very large — also much-used — old fashioned display case. Lighting was dim.

    A commotion got our attention on the first floor, where there was much shouting and a very loud slapping sound. A girl trying to shoplift was in the clutches of a store employee and she was getting instant punishment for her crime.

    The whole place was miserable and depressing.

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