news Chicago to trial city-owned grocery stores to combat corporate-made food deserts

[Communion]

[Meev]

Interested in hearing more about this. Chicago is one of those cities where the crime rate is so high that lots of businesses would not operate in large parts of the city.

 

It would be interesting to see how city-owned grocery stores fare.

[DAP]

Gotta start from somewhere. This + Maine’s proposed nationalizing of their electric grid are very encouraging and hopefully they trigger a precedent. Get the profit motive out of necessities like food and housing and utilities. 

[harwee]

That's good.

 

This just highlights how scarcity of food due to big box stores closing should give hint how much control these companies have in our lives. Walmart for example manufacturing food items like those cheap Good Value brands that kills competition, and then selling in their superstores is straight up monopolistic. When they leave it creates a vacuum. In this day and age, some types of food should be gratis not charity, there's a difference.

[AMIT]

The fact that some people have the nerve to defend capitalism as an ''efficient'' system 

 

this is great news anyway, hopefully it's the start of something even bigger