{"id":2042795,"date":"2023-09-23T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-as-retailers-bolt-city\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:10:36","slug":"chicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-as-retailers-bolt-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-as-retailers-bolt-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago considers government-owned grocery store as retailers leave city."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-as-retailers-bolt-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2042795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Chicago Considers City-Run\u200c Grocery Store as Retailers Abandon the City<\/h2>\n<p>In the face of retailers fleeing the city, Chicago is exploring the creation\u200b of \u2062a city-run grocery store to fill the void.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last year, Whole Foods and \u2062Aldi closed locations in \u2062the city. Aldi said that after \u206313\u2062 years, &#8220;repeated burglaries&#8221; meant\u200d enough was enough, according to \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10938217\/Aldi-closes-store-crime-ridden-Chicago-neighbourhood-without-notice-blaming-repeated-burglaries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thefts in Chicago are up \u200c25% and robberies are up 11%, Chicago\u2062 police said, \u2062according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/18\/chicago-mayor-considers-creating-city-owned-grocery-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart closed four \u2063stores this past spring. A statement \u2063cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/soaring-dc-crime-grocery-chain-ditches-name-brand-laundry-detergents-favor-ones-no-one-wants-steal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losses<\/a> but\u200b did not delve into the reasons for the losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The simplest explanation is\u2062 that collectively\u2062 our Chicago\u2062 stores have\u200d not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago \u2013 these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walmart-shutters-four-chicago-stores-on-same-day-dems-select-crime-ridden-city-to-host-2024-dnc\/\" title=\"Walmart Shutters Four Chicago Stores on Same Day Dems Select Crime-Ridden City To Host 2024 DNC\">stores lose tens<\/a> of millions of\u200b dollars a year,\u2062 and \u200ctheir annual losses\u200b nearly doubled in \u2063just the\u2063 last five years,&#8221; Walmart said in a\u200d statement, according\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/chicago-mayor-considers-creating-city-owned-grocery-store-walmart-whole-foods-close-stores-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chicago-mayor-tells-residents-must-make-sacrifices-newly-arrived-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> Mayor Brandon Johnson, \u200ba Democrat, said\u2062 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/press_room\/press_releases\/2023\/september\/MayorJohnsonAnnouncesTheExplorationOfAMunicipallyOwnedGroceryStore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> he wants to\u200d study whether the city can fill\u2064 the void.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063release did not mention crime.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the\u2064 release said that &#8220;Historic disinvestment has\u200b led to inequitable access to food retail across\u2064 Chicago, and these existing inequities have been \u200bexacerbated as at least six grocery stores \u200dclosed on the South and West sides over the past two \u200dyears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Economic Security Project, a national non-profit dedicated to\u200d building economic power \u200bfor \u2062all Americans, \u200bwill provide\u2063 technical assistance in determining a pathway \u2064to the first municipally owned \u2064grocery store\u2064 in Chicago,&#8221; the\u200c release said, adding that it was part of Johnson&#8217;s \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/letts-chicago-mayors-lame-word-games-cant-cover-big-crime-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mission<\/a> of &#8220;repairing past harms that have \u2064contributed to purposeful disinvestment and exclusion and lack of food access in historically\u2063 underserved communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exploring innovative initiatives to support food retail is part of the \u200dJohnson administration&#8217;s broader commitment \u200dto correcting systems and practices that have created these inequities,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Critics Raise Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Critics, however, are not convinced \u2062about the viability of a government-run grocery store.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Take all\u200b the problems private chains face \u200bin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-education-lesson-from-covid-lockdowns-school-choice-is-imperative-for-every-child\/\" title=\"The Education Lesson from COVID Lockdowns: School Choice Is Imperative for Every Child\">low-income areas<\/a>, then add \u2062in amateur management by a \u2062bureaucracy, \u200dChicago-style political corruption in hiring and contracting, \u2063and\u200c a \u200dlimited range \u200bof products,&#8221; \u200bSteve Boulton, chairman\u200c of the Chicago Republican Party,\u2063 said, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Private\u200b chains \u2062should just pull out of \u200ball the neighborhoods, because \u200bthe city stores will have better police protection and lower \u200cprices subsidized by the long-suffering Chicago taxpayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/20\/commie-chicago-to-have-state-run-grocery-stores-instead-of-a-solution-to-its-crime-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New\u200d York\u200d Post<\/a> Op-Ed, Isaac Schorr criticizes the idea of state-run grocery stores in Chicago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Rampant crime both inside and\u200b around those locations renders their continued \u2062operation a costly risk with a practically unrealizable upside,&#8221; Schorr wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you suspect a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-as-retailers-bolt-city\/\" title=\"Chicago considers government-owned grocery store as retailers leave city.\">government-run\u2063 grocery-store chain<\/a> in the Windy City might not thrive, that&#8217;s probably only because you have eyes to see and ears to hear. When you&#8217;re\u200b straining to walk \u2062and chew gum at the same time, \u200cit&#8217;s inadvisable to\u200b try to\u200c add juggling to the mix,&#8221; Schorr wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s ultimately to blame for this doomed, &#8216;innovative&#8217; (Google \u200bthe Soviet\u2062 Union, Brandon!),\u200b whole-of-bad-government approach besides terrible economic theory is an unwillingness \u2064to confront the anchors tied around a great American city&#8217;s ankles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson and\u2064 his ilk have it backwards \u2014 it&#8217;s \u200bthe lawlessness \u2063that&#8217;s the cause\u200b of the \u2062food deserts, not \u2062the other way around. Until he \u2014 or more plausibly his constituents \u2014 comes\u2064 to grips with this truth, Chicago&#8217;s other half \u200bwill have to settle \u200bfor preposterously insufficient Band-Aids,&#8221; Schorr \u200bwrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chicago-mulls-government-owned-grocery-store-retailers-bolt-city\/\">Chicago Mulls Government-Owned \u2064Grocery Store As \u2062Retailers Bolt City<\/a> \u200c appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2064Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What are the potential benefits \u2062and drawbacks of\u200c a city-run grocery store in addressing the \u200bissue of food deserts in Chicago?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Etail selection determined \u2064by government bureaucracy and you get the picture,&#8221; wrote RedState contributor Bonchie.<\/p>\n<p>Government-run grocery stores have not had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warren-buffet-buys-nearly-6-million-more-occidental-shares\/\" title=\"Warren Buffet Buys Nearly 6 Million More Occidental Shares\">successful track record<\/a> in the past. The Washington Post \u2064reported that\u2064 a government-run grocery store in Washington, D.C. was &#8220;overpriced\u2063 and understocked&#8221; \u200dand ultimately closed\u2064 down\u2062 after only two years of operation.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u200b opponents argue that the government should not be in the business of competing with private \u2062retailers. They argue that a\u2062 city-run grocery store would be unfair competition for small\u2064 businesses and could potentially drive them \u2064out of business, further exacerbating the issue of food access in underserved communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Potential Solution?<\/h3>\n<p>Proponents of \u2064the city-run \u200dgrocery store argue that it could be a solution to\u2063 the problem of food deserts in Chicago. Food deserts are areas where residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious food.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Chicago Reporter, approximately 1.2 million Chicagoans live in food deserts, disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>A city-run grocery store\u200c could potentially provide affordable and\u2062 healthy food options in these\u200b underserved areas, helping to improve the health and well-being of residents.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2062addition to providing access to food, a city-run \u200cgrocery store could also create jobs \u200dand stimulate economic development in these communities.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The proposal for a \u2063city-run grocery store in Chicago comes in response to the exodus of\u200b retailers \u2063from \u2063the city, leaving many neighborhoods \u2062without access to affordable and nutritious food options. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-sanctioned-kidnapping-california-dems-approve-plan-to-let-kids-enroll-in-group-homes-without-parental-consent\/\" title=\"'State-Sanctioned Kidnapping': California Dems Approve Plan To Let Kids Enroll in Group Homes Without Parental Consent\">critics raise concerns<\/a> about the viability and potential negative impacts of a government-run grocery store, \u200bproponents argue that it could be a solution to the problem of food deserts in \u2063the \u200bcity. As\u200b the city explores this potential solution, it is important \u200cto consider the potential benefits and drawbacks, and to prioritize the well-being and equitable access to food for all residents of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is considering opening a city-operated grocery store due to retailers leaving. Whole Foods and Aldi shut down stores last year, with Aldi citing frequent burglaries as the reason. 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