The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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      It sounds like you do have a prejudice against those store chains. Those stores were closed because there was an insanely stupid amount of theft.

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        Funny how that’s the same excuse used by stores in my area that were trying to unionize. Weird that these two things always seem to align. It’s almost like monopolies are bad

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            How? If you have only 1 grocery store and you need to survive, then you must buy from that store.

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              You’re skipping a few steps there lad, 1. There’s more than 1 store, they might not carry everything so you’ll have to go to another store, but that is the reality of mom and pop shops. 2. How is it that a lot of those stores died out in the first place? Because you purchased everything at the large cooperation, and when the mom and pop shops closed you blamed the large storechain WHOM YOU GAVE YOUR MONEY TO. It’s like none of you understand that every action has a consequence and there is no one to blame but yourself. It’s a business, ofcourse they want profit, and you let them to the detriment of the shops you pretend to care so much about. You made your choice, stop fucking complaining.

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            Oh my fucking god dude.

            FOOD DESERT

            By definition there is little to no choice for these people.

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            They do, but Walmart has about a billion more votes.

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            “Voting with your wallet” means fuck all when some people’s wallets are hundreds of thousands times bigger

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          Their official statements etc. The one in Chicago hadn’t been turning a profit for 18 years due to theft.

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                Look at my link dump elsewhere here where people did in fact check. Tldr they’re lying

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            So you think they went “hey it’s only been 10 years, this theft problem is going to clear up any time…” ?? Change your username, you’re disgracing it.

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          Americans going to the government owned post office that isn’t profitable: Wow, I sure am glad that there is a way for me to send and receive mail, it’s a service everyone needs.

          Americans considering the government opening a grocery store that might not be profitable: This is totally unsustainable and there is too much stealing for this to exist. People do not deserve access to a conveniently located grocery store.

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          I always try to forgo people’s political stance and just debate them on issues as humans. Sucks that these particular humans ignore everything that doesn’t fit their agenda and they all have no fucking responsibility and claim innocence and blame everyone else. It’s pathetic.

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            If you actually debated people as humans maybe you’d have some empathy for the common people affected by this issue rather than bootlicking

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              Not selling something is usually less profitable than selling something, it’s not bootlicking to say there may be a reason so many stores closed.