Mayor Brandon Johnson’s public market plan slows to a crawl – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

Johnson first floated the idea of opening a publicly owned grocery store in 2023, just months after he took office. The idea, a novel one at the time for a major U.S. city, has since attracted the attention of progressives elsewhere, including Zohran Mamdani, who put city-owned grocery stores on the platform that won him the mayor’s office in New York City.
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ProzacPlease
6 months ago

Johnson and his staff couldn’t operate a lemonade stand.

Mark F
6 months ago

Even a math dimwit like Mayor Johnson has, maybe, figured out that a really well run private grocery store nets 3%. A not so well run, government grocery store, will run deep in the red.

Colorado
6 months ago
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Actually, operations such as Kroger do net 1%. 3% would, in my experience, be an outrageously successful grocery store.

Deb
6 months ago

City owned grocery stores will have no food on the shelves. City needs to pay political cronies and fraudsters first, before stocking shelves with food. The overhead for these stores will be enormous.

Brian Jones
6 months ago

To open and run a grocery store takes money. He doesn’t have any to spare.

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