Everyone knows and has felt the bite to the price of groceries….and the mayor of NYC promised to introduce city-owned stores to help bring down the cost of food….
How has it so for?
WE will see how well this idea works for the people of NYC….maybe it could help the rest of the country as well.
Sadly, we probably will not here much about this if it is a success but everything if it fails…..for the MSM does not want a success to become a national morn.
Any thoughts?
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It sounds like a good plan, but it appears that it is going to be a long time before they are all up and running. Only then will we be able to tell if it works in the real world, and can hopefully be expanded further.
Best wishes, Pete.
That is the biggest problem, the start-up, but otherwise a great idea. chuq
The big grocery conglomerates will attack them on the basis of unfair competition and will drive them out of business.
they will indeed, John. Even just talking about the city opening a store in Milwaukee here, or even just giving private owned stores a tax break or a loan from the city has set off threats of lawsuits.
I say let them go for it….chuq
You want to save money on groceries? Find ourself an Amish Grocery store.
Or stop eating. That weigh you have a two prong attack…save money and lose weight. chuq
There is talk of trying something similar here in Wisconsin down in Milwaukee. Grocery stores have been closing all over in the city itself, mostly in minority communities, leaving large areas without any access to groceries except for convenience stores, the “dollar” stores and bodegas, none of which carry much more than crappy, overly salted processed foods and very little in the way of staples, fruits and vegetables. A lot of people in these communities don’t have cars and the city’s bus service has been cutting back on routes going into those areas for years now.
We have a pretty good bus schedule…..the problem is there are only 1 major store and one regional store….we need to find a way for the poorest among us to have decent food. chuq
Grocery is a really cut-throat business. When I worked for the POS company most of my clients were independent grocery stores and even back then in the late 1990s we were losing stores at an alarming rate. Consumers are fickle. They’ll drive 20 miles out of their way to save 10¢ a pound on grapes instead of buying at their local store. All of the stores I serviced were gone within about 5 – 10 years after I left the business in early 2000. In most cases they were driven out of business deliberately by the nearby big chain stores dropping their prices to below their cost, knowing the mom and pop stores couldn’t compete. As soon as the small stores were gone, prices were jacked up to as much as the mom and pop stores charged or even more.
I know we lost most of our local grocery stores by 2000….the last one just could compete with Wally World…..we still have one local butcher left and I try to use them as often as possible. chuq