If you get all your information from duh "Mainstream Media," you don't know shit about what's really happening.
Ahh, I see my Democrat friends are indignant about that statement! "Dat's an insult! We iz, like, totally well informed, cuz we watch PBS an' duh Media, an' dey tells us duh troof! Cuz dey nevah lie to us, always tell duh troof!"
Hahahahahaha! I see you've just arrived on this planet! Enjoy your stay!
So let's review: We all agree that no one should starve. So Democrats began by giving po' pipo money to buy food an' pay rent. But much to their surprise, some of duh po' pipo used dat cash to buy iPhones an' hair extensions an' 3-inch fake nails, an'...drugs. An' den when duh cash wuz gone, dey wailed dat dey wuz hungry. Hmmm... But don't yew dare aks 'em t'give up dere hair extensions or fake nails or drugs, eh?
To fix dat, duh Democrats started givin' duh pipo "food stamps," which cud only be used ta buy...food. Great fix, eh? Except in about two days, valedictorians realized dey cud buy food stamps for 30% of face value--in cash--an' sell 'em to hungry pipo for 60%, making a faaabulous profit. And there was no way to prevent this. Nice.
So duh Dems moved to Plan C: giving surplus cheese an' dairy to duh po' from gummint warehouses. Win-win, eh? But duh affluent white attorneys who make money for filing lawsuits fo' duh po', and store owners who wanted to sell more groceries to food-stamp recipients, said that was demeaning.
So that went poof, and now the attorneys found a new boogeyman: "food deserts." And the cause? Of course, you guessed it: rapacious, greedy capitalism! And as you already guessed, that charge was eagerly picked up by one of our nation's two political parties.
Turns out inner-city valedictorians constantly shoplifted from local grocery stores, causing the owners to lose money year after year. And finally--to the total surprise of Democrats and their leaders--the owners of those stores said "We're done."
Dems: "SEE?? It's all the fault of doze greedy capitalists, who insist on making a profit! What effrontery! If we could just get rid of capitalists, ebryt'ing wud be perfect!"
So the Dems had a great idea: Why don't we have ouah faaabulous, totally competent city council members and mayors set up city-owned grocery stores, eh? Dat wud solve everything!
If you get all your "newz" from duh Mainstream Media you think this is an insane proposal. The only thing government is good at is wasting money and enriching politicians. It hasn't done anything efficiently or well in forever. But turns out this isn't just a wasteful pipe-dream: several Dem-ruled shithole cities already have these.
And if you're a Dem you say "Great idea." Yeah, I get it. So consider this story from the Dem shitsite the Washington Post (edited to remove the Post's fawning over the Dem party):
Kansas City's city-owned grocery store was wildly celebrated when it opened seven years ago. Area residents had long lived without a decent supermarket on Kansas City’s east side, and the store was an effort by the city’s Democrat rulers to give area residents access to healthy food.
But now the store--in a city-owned strip mall--is on the verge of closure. Customers say they are increasingly afraid to shop there — even with visible police patrols — because of drug dealing, theft and vagrancy both inside and outside the store and the public library across the street.
The store lost almost a million dollars last year and now has barely a quarter of the shoppers it had a few years ago, according to the nonprofit that leases the site from the city.
Despite a recent $750,000 cash infusion from the city, the shelves are almost bare.
As grocery prices continue to climb and millions of Americans "face losing federal food assistance" [thinly disguised bitching about Trump] more cities and states across the country — in Illinois, Georgia and Wisconsin — are experimenting with the concept of taxpayer-funded grocery stores to get food to low-income neighborhoods.
Now here's the real purpose behind the WaPo sob story:
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, has attracted attention for his campaign pledge to combat “out-of-control” prices by establishing FIVE city-owned supermarkets that he claims will pass savings onto customers because they don't have a "profit motive.”
Yet these experiments often don’t account for social issues that can make success even more challenging. Critics say the efforts are unrealistic regardless because grocery stores have such slim profit margins and struggle to compete with the prices offered by big-box chains like Walmart. High-profile projects have failed in recent months in Florida and Massachusetts.
Marquita Taylor, who's shopped at the city-owned store just blocks from her home since it opened, says “This is pathetic. Every neighborhood deserves a good grocery store.*
Ahh yes! And a 3,000-square-foot home with free internet and utilities, too.
Nearly a decade ago the Democrat-ruled gruberment of Kansas City spent $17 million to buy and fix up a decaying strip mall. The city opened its grocery in 2018 with a salad bar, fresh shrimp on ice and flower bouquets. Not surprisingly, locals were thrilled.
At first the store was run by a private grocer, but in 2022 a "nonprofit" took over. Sales were okay at first, but after the pandemic crime rose and sales began to plummet.
See, duh Post implies pipo stopped buying food when duh Chyna virus hit, right? Nah.
Police data show assaults, robberies and shoplifting in that area have risen since 2020. Shoplifting cases have nearly tripled.
Wait..."shoplifting," y'say? Wasn't that what caused the privately-owned stores to close in the first place? Why yes, it was. So how did spending over $17 MILLION on the city-owned store fix that, eh? Of course it didn't fix jack-shit.
At a community meeting last year the store manager showed videos of "security incidents," like a naked woman parading through the store throwing bags of chips to the ground, another person urinating in the vestibule and a couple fornicating on the lawn of the library in broad daylight.
Wait...duh Supreme Court haz ruled dat fucking in public in daylight iz jus' "freedom of speech," jus' like burning duh 'Merican flag!"
Advocates accuse the city of neglecting the property.
"If duh city wud jus' spend another ten million or so, everyt'ing wud be fine!" Ohh, certainly.
In May of this year, after the city was slow to give $750,000 in promised "assistance" [i.e. cash] to the store, residents from the racially mixed neighborhood stormed a council meeting waving signs that read, “I need access to fresh food!”
Democrat mayor Quinton Lucas says he sees two challenges: first is saving the current store. “Changing consumer behavior will be another.”
You don't say.
In a rare burst of not-quite-candor the Post writer says "The issues defy quick solutions." She finds a police major who "links the rise in crime to fallout from the pandemic and rising inflation." Hmmm...
Then, buried after the above horseshit, is the real cause: The Dem-ruled (i.e. leftist) city council closed the city's only jail in 2009 to save money. So people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in surrounding counties "miles away."
Say, how's that workin' out for ya, ya dumb bastards?
“The same group of offenders are here every week, just hanging out,” says the major. “A few people are ruining it for the rest of the community that deserves to go to their grocery store and their library.”
Wow, who could have predicted that if you don't jail people for "minor" crimes, they'll do more of the same, eh?
In one cryptic 'graf writer Annie Gowen says Illinois alone has spent $16 million for new grocery stores since 2023, but apparently none are owned by the city. That sounds like giving money to connected grifters.
In Boston, Rauch founded a chain of five "low-cost" grocery stores that allegedly sold only healthy food, avoiding sugary snacks. Gowen says sales revenue only covered 75 percent of their costs, and the rest came from with private and public grants. But you can bet the customers all had iPhones, fancy hair extensions and glamorous nails.
The founder says they were anticipating a banner 2025, but then "the Trump administration slashed federal programs that aided nutrition assistance." No specifics, no programs, no numbers.
“We ran out of money,” he says. “The freezing of funds at the USDA had a very chilling effect.”
Exploring “public options” for groceries remains a popular idea with Democrats because of high prices...says Margaret Mullins, *director of public options and governance* at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.
“Making sure people have access to fresh food is really, really important,” Mullins said. “So even though it’s tough, people keep turning to this public support idea because what else can they do?”
What else can they do, eh? Well for starters, how about not stealing from grocery stores, eh?
Nooo, dat too harsh. Far bettah to replace carefully-run private businesses with city-owned ones where cash vanishes every week.
A critic of the city-owned grocery says the store looks “great on paper” but doesn't have enough demand to support it. And the neighborhood has other stores nearby.
That extremely vital piece of info is buried near the end of the piece.
So far the city appears to have spent about $29 million on the shopping center project.
The store’s insurance company has now dropped it, and the premiums with a new insurer are 45 percent higher.
After the city bought the property and opened the city-owned store, the local neighborhood association launched a campaign asking people to sign pledges to shop there. The association also handed out $10 gift cards.
Now residents say "There’s nothing there.” Hardly any fruit or chips. No bread except hamburger buns.

Government grocery in Venezuela. Just kidding: this is the city-owned store in Kansas City.
Democrats: "We need more great projects like this! An' to reduce costs duh city shud be the insurer for the store too! See, duh premiums will drop cuz ain't none a' dat baaaad profit motive! Yeh, dat's duh ticket!"
Source: shitsite Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/18/city-owned-grocery-stores-crime-funding/