'Soviet Style Central Planning' Chicago Proposes Government-Ran Grocery Stores After Retailers Flee * 100PercentFedUp.com * by F...
Retailers are continuing to flee big cities in droves as soft-on-crime prosecutors refuse to do what is necessary to stop […]
Remeber when yeltsin went to texas and saw a grocery store with the abundance of food and realized that communism is a failed idea. This is the opposite .
But the Soviets didn't have a large pool of non-communist taxpayers to pay for it. That's the game. It's wealth redistribution. All normal people with jobs in Chicago will be subsidizing that store, which of course is just upscaling the welfare state that already exists.
I have no problem with that. Then again, I don’t live in Chicago. If I did, I would move.
Making poor electoral choices has consequences.
There are a lot of conservatives in Chicago, we just stay quiet about politics and try to live normal lives. Ultimately though Chicago is beholden to machine politics. Chicago is more corrupt than New York. We don't really have a choice. Johnson was elected by the Teacher's Union and with resources from national left-wing lobbyists. Nobody knew who Johnson really was, so normal people just ignored the election. But there is no conservative option here. People in Chicago consider Rahm Emmanuel too conservative.
Truth teller right there. I'm in semi rural south Lake Co., Indiana.
It sucks how the Dems own Chiraq. Chiraq has been Dem for way too long. Even the commie media and historians denounced the Dem Chicago mayor for beating up protestors during the 1968 DNC Convention. The Democrats in Chicago are extreme and on a different level. Even NY state and NYC had GOP governors and mayors just a few years ago. Bloomberg for example was a Republican mayor of NYC in the 2000s. How bizarre is that in today's world?
Chicago was essentially taken over by communist immigrants from Eastern Europe. Read about the Haymarket Affair in the 1880s. It's just that they hid their true agenda. Chicago's Machine lasted for decades after New York's Machine was dismantled. It was Irish Catholics aligned with blacks milking the union vote for most of the 20th century.
As if elections aren’t rigged and made up
Grocery stores run on paper thin margins to begin with. Without the logistics, distributor network, economies of scale, etc this will be a colossal failure.
The chains wouldn't have pulled out of those locations if they were breakeven stores for optics and market share alone. Those stores were losing their ass to be sure.
These govt run stores will basically be bread lines with massive overhead.
Don't worry! They'll raise taxes in order to offset the theft!
Boy, I say... I say, boy, I say, you gotta keep your ears open, boy. Pay attention, boy.
Son, you might be legally retarded.
TRUMP WILL WIN
LITERALLY NO ONE HERE IS OPPOSED TO THAT, YOU ULTRA-MAROON.
Conservative companies are starving out Blue Cities, as we've been talking about for years.
Of course they were going to resort to socialism to cope.
Are you moving to a blue city for free handouts? We sure aren't.
These aren't even "conservative" companies, it's just anyone who is a capitalist. Plenty of these companies are run by woke retarded democrats. They're just not not outright communists, yet.
Grocery stores are notoriously liberal like newspapers
whole foods is where only wealthy people go to pay 10x for food. it’s hardly a grocery store, it’s like an expensive club
That was Gorbachev not Yeltsin. Yeltsin was the first president of Russia after the Soviet Union fell.
I thought it was gorbby too. I doubled checked. Yeltsin
Gorbachev was in charge (of the soviet union) at the time of the visit to the grocery store, Yeltsin was just a part of the communist cabinet or whatever, not the leader yet. But it was Yeltsin who visited the store, not Gorbachev.
He may have been mayor of Moscow then.
No you're thinking of Mayor McCheese
Yeah he was in the politburo, I don't know the exact position. But I think a lot of people think of Gorbachev because he was actually in charge when that incident happened, but Yeltsin tells the story later looking back when he is in charge of Russia after communism has ended there.
So he's the one whose wife sent hunter 3 million dollars? Wow, even as a child Hunter was corrupt
Wow it was Yeltsin: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
My brain remembers that picture with Gorbachev instead of Yeltsin.
Seems to recall kruschev visiting.
Yeltsin saw the light, the dems impose blackouts.
They'll just truck in food constantly on tax payer dime. So everything will look OK, but it'll be bleeding money. Soviets grocery stores looked terrible cause supply was always low and inconsistent. There were days when all you saw were things like mustard, no meat or bread just mustard today etc.
My local subreddit is a bunch of cucks complaining about things mostly caused by dindus (but none dare say the obvious). Some ask why is there no grocery store? Someone will bravely say theft and get down voted to oblivion.
I wondered if government will step in to deal with the orc-caused food deserts. It looks like my prediction is coming true.
LOL. So, is the r/kansascity one.
KC proper has become a total disaster, chasing absolutely stupid "incentive projects" and "developments" and "transit" that benefit practically no one. They are in so much debt. That's why they're jacking up property taxes like there's no tomorrow. KC is currently #1 on some list or other, can't remember which... highest rise in property taxes, most objections to property taxes, or something. State of MO stepped in to force Jackson county to keep extending appeals time because they can't get everyone in. The suburbs in Jackson County are suing KC because of course all their tax money for the county is being diverted to more STUPID in KC proper. I don't live in Jackson county but have been kinda following this...
Some of my coworkers live in JACO, so I can been getting an earful. It is insanity what they did. Thankfully, our stupid local media has actually been covering it. It all boils down to diversity hires that are either grifting or incompetent. Probably both.
One of my coworkers got an $800 personal property tax bill for his vehicle. He has an Audi convertible that isn't brand-new. I have an Acura and have never ever received a personal property bill like that on the KS side even when it was brand-new.
Another one is fighting the bill he got for his house.
Worthless grifting Democrats.
Reddit is special that way. Saving the world, one down vote at a time.
Funny how easy it is to find the redditards that infiltrate here... trigger one and the next day your last page or 2 of comments has an extra downvote beyond what it was when the thread died.
Nice thing about here is it doesn't interrupt the flow of discussions. It's literally meaningless. On Reddit it buries everything and is annoying AF.
The funniest was the mod that killed off GAW by banning all but zirs friends and hangs out here so it can brag about the millions of points... you'd think the score has a monetary value.
Bragging about upvote counts is cringe fronthole-having behavior
I'm not a real redditard.
That which the left has made verboten is exactly what needs to be illuminated.
I visit my "local" subreddit for various reasons sometimes... once was to get out of a stupid tax that taxed people who don't even live or work in the city. (I did find out to get out of it.) "Local" can be subjective. I live "near" (20-25 mins from) a city, but my immediate community area is kind of insulated from that, and our edges outside of our own development are green and farm land. But yeah there are plenty of people who would be looking at things in their "local" city who don't actually literally live there.
I live in a county nearby. It's not a big city.
Sawdust laced "bread" and rotten meat inbound ... welcome to Communist Democrat-ruined Chicago.
Keep voting Democrat, eat shit, and die for a flawed ideal.
Bet the Mayor won't ever shop there other than for a photo op.
Upton Sinclair all over again. And the same city he wrote about.
Go for it. They'll run it into the ground in absolute disaster like everything else they touch. Whatever helps bankrupt and crash that garbage state sooner the better.
Exactly. Do they really think they’re going to have any luck hiring anyone with remotely competent skills to run the place. Any store manager who is any real world experience who sees that job posting is going to look at why it is posted, what happened to the other stores, etc. and refused to touch that mess with 100 foot pole.
They know no matter what they do, what prices they put in, policies they put in, etc. it will lose money, and eventually they will be thrown under the bus.
They’re looking for government workers, not competent employees.
We both know they’re looking for government workers, however, I’m sure they’re going to try to hire some former private sector employee, there were no sane person wants to touch that job, they’ll find a way to blame racism, climate, change, or who knows what else when it fails.
Whoever they get, they’ll be as competent and hard-working as your average DMV employee.
I guess when it goes to hell they’ll come visit you and me and point their gun to get their next shakedown.
Government cheese.
Bill Gates potatoes.
Klaus Schuab greens.
That cheese will be non-dairy and there will be no government bacon, instead government grasshopers, because Klaus Schwab wants you to Eat Ze Bugs to save the planet
Whitey get at the back of the line.
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One of the rare times I agree with you. That other guy can't tell if he's afoot or horseback...
agreeing with maga and common serve l sense should not be rare
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your negro toes.
How fat are you?
Don’t worry, they’ll loot and rob those places too. Until they address the real problem, nothing will change.
Not if they’re stocked with beyond meat, cricket burgers, soy milk and other leftist approved green foods. I think they relish this opportunity to showcase their vision of the world as they would run it.
Let the riots begin ... grabs all u can boyz!
I always wanted a grocery store filled with a large flamin' hot and grape drink selection.
Soylent Green government distribution centers and I wish I was joking.
Just spit-balling ideas here, but what if, instead of losing millions on a failed grocery store, the city posted a few cops at Wal-Mart and Whole Foods to curtail the shop-lifting and looting?
It’s a much more systemic issue than police. You not only need police to make arrests, but you need prosecutors to prosecute, and jurors to convict.
I don't disagree, but so long as the police are empowered to make arrests on the scene, even if the justice system is a turnstile, it will still discourage shoplifting.
The main reason why prosecutors aren’t doing their jobs is because a disproportionate percentage of the people they’d be indicting if they did their jobs are black. Can’t have that while you’re trying to promote equity and end “systemic racism.”
Wonder if the robberies at the government store will be handled differently.
SAFE-T act now in effect in the IL as well
It's RoboCop and Batman all rolled up, now the Gubbiment can take over the stores foc and the employees can steal, the customers can steal and it will be shut down in the second month (if they make it that long) and when it fails it's Trump's fault
Malcolm X predicted all this for the zoo animals.
Chicago needs something like a corporate spinoff. Spin off the richer and Whiter parts of the city so they don’t have to subsidize this madness. The radical left will finally face reality when they realize they can’t redistribute Whitey’s money.
They're bringing segregation everywhere else, might as well segregate cities now.
It's so interesting to watch a city descend into 3rd world misery. I've always wondered how people could let it get to that point. This is exactly how.
Government run store, taking EBT cards.
How is this different from getting your rations in the soviet union? At least for now they have more variety and no lines, but that will change.
Universal basic income, EBT cards, government stores, limited selection of poor quality food, any dissent and you are cut off.
During the war, it was largely confined to urban areas and covered most essential food items such as bread, flour, vegetable oil, meat, fish, and sugar. It also was socially discriminatory, with initially four major categories — manual workers, white-collar workers, dependants, and children under 12 years of age — entitled to different levels of rations. In February 1942, a fifth category, consisting of people employed in important war industries together with scientists and technicians, was added. Official ration levels occasionally were cut, for example, for sugar in April 1942 and for bread in November 1943, but otherwise remained stable throughout and immediately following the war. https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1947-2/end-of-rationing/
so ... will WOKE insist that male Caucasians have different levels of rations?
Does equity (DIE) mean that everyone has the same (low) standard of living?
Starvation is on the menu. Latest example is Venezuela. The Gov took over the Farms and Dairies. They tried to coerce people to work for the slackers. Equipment failures, planting failures, profit skimming, withholding pay. The only people that do not starve are the ruling political elite.
Don't forget the calorically enhanced, "Dey needs mo fude dan u!"
Otherwise, you raciss. Just axe Lizzo.
Also let's remember for the most part the soviet union in it's major metropolitan areas was largely a certain race. America will not have orderly lines because of who will be making up said lines
The Soviets would have starved in WW2 if not for American assistance
The Soviets did starve in WW2.
It would have been far worse without our help
That is true.
Goodbye PORK and BACON 😭 Hello camel urine aisle.
Oh no, this will be 100% Bug protein mix food. Bill Gates is salivating at the prospect.
How soon till Chicazuela siezes dairy and poultry farms to provide food to the masses?
Or....
you could....
keep criminals jailed (or dead, depending on what they did).
Crazy idea, I know.
Create problem - propose solution ----> Now everyone is communist.
"I am the free market now"
Grocery stores have extremely tight profit margins, something like 2.5-5%. They also run on trade credit with their suppliers.
This means that no government-run grocery store would find any suppliers because they know that even if they get paid, it will be extremely late and just not worth servicing that shitty client.
They would just mandate suppliers, passing laws to strongarm supplies into their grasp. And since the thefts will continue, the government will just write it off into debt. Dindu's still get to dindu, and tax payers pay even more to support them. All this theft is based on the broken concept of wealth redistribution. Promoting and letting minorities steal shit is their sick idea of reparations, but it's actually just plain old theft disguised as altruism.
No, that's not how it works. You need to learn how this shit works before you say shit like that. I used to broker financing for mom and pop convenient stores and small grocery chains.
Even the corner convenience store has dozens of vendors like Frito Lay, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Marlboro, Anheuser Busch, M&M, etc. Those vendors have local distributors that have routes they cover.
A grocery store has multiple meat, seafood, and produce suppliers who also have distributors, warehouses, trucks, loading docks, refrigerated trailers, etc.
If you are saying that every single mother fucker from the guy who pulls potatoes out of the ground, to the trucking company delivering it, to the poor sap who has to unload it into the store is going to do this shit for free or even worse do it at a loss, you are talking out of your ass.
The entire industry from supplier to distributor to retailer functions on tight margins and trade credit. Nobody can afford to take sustained losses.
Big question. Is it state or federally controlled?
It's Chicago. Where's the difference?
Soooooo…. Bread lines.
Clowns trying to feed animals. What could possibly go wrong?
Hey look over there ... Mexican Space Aliens!!!
Government-ran? Obviously a product of the public "education" system.
They will just loot it too
nationalizing business is also a big part of fascism along with corpratism
Fascism would have you run the business on behalf of the government, and still the State is the beneficiary - so Corporate Communism.
so, obviously, no matter what happens in regards to shoplifting, looting or otherwise, the taxpayers will have to pay to prop up this monstrosity.
All the worst parts about grocery shopping and all the
worstparts about dealing with government all rolled into one!Pedes, I present you with the next way low income areas will be fleeced and destroyed. Yeah, it will be cheaper, but the markup on sub standard food products will net huge profits for local governments. Don't believe me, go look at the food provided by ANY low income school food program, its dog shit.
It's taking tax payers money, buying sub-standard food, and marking it up for profit.
i hear that they'll allow coach purses and air jordans for payment
Good. Fuck Chicago.
Free food will be a “right” before long.
It already is. What do you call food stamps?
At least food stamps arent for everybody.
This was the plan/goal all along with regards to food: centralize it under fed control and eliminate freedom of choice.
I wonder if they'll be taxed or not?
Enjoy your government mandated diet of roaches, locusts, and crickets, my Chiraqi brethren.