Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:12
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Get bent.
Co-ops are member-owned, are not not government-subsidized. It's just a different business model, not one dependent on government subsidies. If a co-op fails, no taxpayer dollars are lost.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:09
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?
I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties.
Good point. I've had a couple of veteran friends (ones who have not struggled) say that.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:06
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:"publicly funded, privately run* is the model for graft.
Socialize the costs, privatize the benefits.
Trump should love it.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:03
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?
I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.
But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.
People flounder when trapped in a capitalist economy, you say?
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:03
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
"publicly funded, privately run* is the model for graft.
Socialize the costs, privatize the benefits.
Socialize the costs, privatize the benefits.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:02
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:Commissary, anyone?
I’m convinced that so many Service Members struggle when they leave because the cradle-to-grave socialism of the military takes away a lot of day-to-day anxieties. Of course, those anxieties are replaced by other ones - seeing active combat, year-long deployments, etc.
But when socialism works well (see: U.S. military life), people often flounder when they are removed from that structure and tossed into the cold reality of the U.S. civilian economy and society.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:56
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Y'all cain't take away mah (subsidized but not socialist) freedom.
fixed that for ya'. Minor oversight. It's early.
Dork, do you have a little January-6-rioter-style beard?
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:45
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Y'all cain't take away mah (subsidized but not socialist) freedom.
fixed that for ya'. Minor oversight. It's early.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:37
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Commissary, anyone?
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:30
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Anonymous wrote:It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Y'all cain't take away mah freedom.
Anonymous
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:07
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
Doesn’t seem like a crazy idea to me.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 09:00
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
I don’t have a problem with the notion. Some corporations have pulled out due to access crime also. If they can be funded and used correctly it is a win-win.
Anonymous
11/26/2025 08:58
Subject: Publicly funded supermarkets?
It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Get bent.
For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?
Get bent.
Anonymous