As Chicago studies whether to become the first big city to open a municipally-owned grocery store, it will be looking to places like this city of 1,000 people for tips on how to do it. At the moment, things aren’t going especially well. Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
There’s an old saying, “you don’t $yit where you eat”.
City-run grocery stores is a bad idea, especially from a taxpayer perspective. Instead of getting tips on how to do it, Chicago should’ve been getting tips on why it’s a bad idea.
Perhaps properties with a grocery store use should be assessed at a lower value. Oh wait what am I thinking, lower taxes, I’m in the wrong state for that.
The voters in Cook County elected a prosecutor who does not prosecute shoplifting.
The voters in Cook County elected a governor that eliminated cash bail.
The voters in Chicago elected a mayor that taught 4th grade social studies for a few years.
The stores have been ransacked and robbed countless times.
The taxpayers will now fund the supermarkets that will be run by the social studies teacher that was chosen by the voters….
Folks it can happen. For a while there were only a couple of national chain grocery stores in the entire city of Detroit — think Kroger or the equivalent of Jewel-Osco, Dominicks or Marianos.
Many of the stores that exist now are run by Chaldean immigrants. About 200 of these unfortunates have been murdered by the community over the years — and you won’t read about it in the Detroit MSM.
I don’t care if these people choose to live in places far from their food source. That’s not my problem. It’s like moving to the desert and complaining there’s no water, or living on the Florida coast and claiming there’s too much water. There are a dozen thriving grocery stores within a 5 mile radius of where I live including multiple ‘ethnic only’ stores that I’ve never set food in.
I was in a Dollar Store that recently remodeled to add produce and meat to their grocery SKU’s. That concept is going to work real well for them in a whole lot of different places. When I started in the wholesale distribution to c-stores-n-etc industry in ’99, we routed stops to Red Fox’s and IGA’s from the edge of Cook County, which we didn’t serve, all through downstate Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa. By the time I left in ’16, we delivered fewer than 20 everywhere combined. We had lost some to competitors, however the vast majority of the… Read more »
Hmmm… what’s the “difference” between this rural Kansas demographic, and a Chicago “inner city” demographic… how much of these Kansas stores chalk up losses due to “inventory shrinkage”, one wonders…???
I vote for Chimart.
Come in and shop and if you can’t pay for it, ruuuun!!!
Inventory loss is the cause of the stores closing. No business would open up knowing that they will lose money. Let government run the stores and the taxpayers pay for it and they will. If they do not like it, they can move and they will.
Any honest person will tell you why this “concept” is nothing more than another government funded giveaway. But you won’t hear a democrat say it, because they aren’t honest.