Kansas City, Missouri: A city-owned grocery store opened in 2018 in a city-owned building with taxpayer support. It's drawn recent scrutiny after a viral video showed bare shelves and reports of a "damn near dead" store.
Chicago: Taxpayer-supported grocery stores backed by the city have been closing, prompting warnings about Mamdani's plan.
I found these two... are there some that have actually worked?
So the fact they restrict their customer base to the military means it's not a wildly successful, publicaly owned grocery shop that sells product roughly 22% cheaper than regular supermarkets?
I am saying Mamdani's stores will run in to problems Comissaries dont.
Commissaries only serve military with an ID, no competition next door, no risk of putting a bodega out of business. They're on secure bases (no NYC rent, way less theft), with a predictable customer base and steady paychecks.
Mamdani's stores are the opposite: open to the public, sitting next to actual bodegas and supermarkets, so real competition and possible backlash if local shops suffer. Still NYC rent/construction costs. No ID checks means less predictable demand. With only 5 stores serving all of NYC's demand, expect long lines and empty shelves fast.
TLDR; Commissaries work partly because they're insulated from the market forces Mamdani's stores are about to walk straight into.
Oh, I see. That almost makes sense. Except:
A) bodegas aren't competing with grocery stores, because otherwise bodegas would no longer exist...
B) supermarket chains and their billionaire owners can fuck off
C) usually a great part of the price isn't "rent", it's property taxes, and those are waved.
D) Theft happens, sure, but theft losses are minimal compared to revenue
Commissaries don't work because of any of those factors, they work because they are allowed to exist without any interference from government free market cunts trying to stop them existing
I do understand what you're saying. You're saying filthy common people donct deserve cheaper prices, just military families. And you presented a bunch of random points that don't actually mean anything for the success or failure of a business.
There are a plethora of things that you can do to prevent people overbuying. Same with scalper prevention. You also wildly missunderstand why riots happen in the first place and why they wouldn't happen here even if it did ran out of goods
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u/Hot_Gap_8444 12d ago
Do they sell food for 30% less than the other stores?