Government owned grocery stores in food deserts are a failure

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Jul 20, 2025.

  1. demoncore

    demoncore

    Who is Frito?
     
    #21     Jul 21, 2025
  2. Why people buy junk food



    Pepsi 4.8 cents an ounce

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    Orange juice 9.5 cents an ounce


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    #22     Jul 21, 2025
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  3. demoncore

    demoncore

    Red Bull is 2/$6 for 12oz at every Maverik AND zero ethanol Blue Gas! Everyone knows this. 2/$5 for the 8oz. Poor value proposition to buy the smaller. The 12oz deal is getting 8oz for a buck!
     
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    #23     Jul 21, 2025
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  4. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    Who's going to buy it ? Don't worry, Canada can take over some of the international sales and perhaps if you guys want to keep up your asshole diplomacy we can stop sending your farmers our potash ( we supply 90% of your imports ). Guess we'll see how it all transpires but term one Trump ended up making tax payers bail out the farmers ( not a small sum ) because of the damage of his tariffs. Try again I guess hope for different results ?
     
    #24     Jul 21, 2025
  5. Note that when the fake Canadian from the UK talks about "we" stopping potash he - due to his lack of familiarity with Canada- fails to understand that Saskatchewan is that largest potash producer, with additional resources in nearby Alberta.

    Let's just say things between Alberta/Saskatchewan and Ottawa are rather rocky these days. If if the fake Canadian wants to be the first to tell them who they will not be exporting to when it is one of their major exports, then go for it. No one ever said he was a rocket scientist.

    Independence/secession vote coming right up in Alberta next year with Sask headed there too. Looks like the fake Canadian is out there helping that effort. No better way to tell Alberta and Sask that they are still Ottawa's bitch. Let's see who has the last word in that battle.
     
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    #25     Jul 21, 2025
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  6. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    The Head Incel on here thinks he has something to say about Canada. Like fuck you do you ignorant slug. That "Fake Canadian" theme is one of your really, really stupid ones. I've lived in Canada since the 1960s. Next year will come and go and there will be NO votes for provinces to leave Canada. You post a lot of crap on here that has no reality to it.
     
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  7. ipatent

    ipatent

    Some reasons why grocery stores pull out of ghetto areas and create so-called food deserts:

    "The store was first run by a private grocer; Pierson’s nonprofit took over in 2022. Sales were okay at first, but after the pandemic, crime rose and sales began to plummet. Police data show assaults, robberies and shoplifting in the immediate vicinity have been on an upward trend since 2020. Shoplifting cases have nearly tripled.

    At a community meeting last year, Pierson played videos of security incidents so graphic he gave a warning in advance — a naked woman parading through the store throwing bags of chips to the ground, another person urinating in the vestibule and a couple fornicating on the lawn of the library in broad daylight."​
     
    #27     Jul 21, 2025
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  8. vztrdr

    vztrdr

    Maybe Trump should buy 1000 acres there for his Presidential Library when Murdoch is forced to break bread to the tune of $10B+. That will at least ensure free parking for the true Canadian patriots. Use gravel though, no need to pave the free parking spaces on a 1000 acre complex. The paved areas will be for those that French-kissed the ring.
     
    #28     Jul 21, 2025
  9. ipatent

    ipatent

    SunFresh Linwood was supposed to revive business in east KC. The store is now in crisis

    Two managers have quit in the last year, citing hazardous working conditions. The store is now managed by assistant manager Adriana Rentie, who said at an August meeting with Mayor Quinton Lucas and Kansas City Police Department chief Stacey Graves that her short tenure has been far from easy.

    Sales are so low that the store cannot afford to repair its broken front door, developer and CBKC CEO Emmett Pierson said in August. About 85% of the store’s total revenue goes to security.

    Meanwhile, Rentie and other SunFresh staff have begun calling 911 frequently, often reporting limited success. On one recent occasion, Rentie said, a Kansas City police officer declined to intervene with a SunFresh customer accused of theft because the officer was busy responding to another customer wielding a machete.

    Another time, Rentie said an officer refused to arrest a man threatening to kill Rentie and other customers, instructing Rentie to instead “talk it out.”

    Five years ago, city officials put more than $20 million into businesses along the Prospect Avenue commercial corridor, including $17 million into SunFresh, hoping to get ahead of blight and make the area a more attractive gathering place for residents — and their dollars.
     
    #29     Jul 25, 2025
  10. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    it's not about transgender. it's about religion and guns, and in rural homogenous communities that fear minorities thanks to FoxNews. (I've walked into restaurants where the music has literally stopped because i'm the only non-white they will have seen all week).