Not true. The screenshot alone has 7 “brand name” (for NYC area) supermarkets on it. And I already mentioned that if I zoomed in more, I found additional ones that aren’t visible in the screen shot (such as ALDI) . Yes, there’s mostly a few bodega’s showing in the southern most part of the map, but they’re all near a Shop Fair.
The only one I looked up was Food Town and it was a health food store and other than that, just from looking at what you posted, you got a mini-market and some international food bazaars in the area.
We did this here in this country before! It was called the New Deal. Roosevelt saved democracy and capitalism by putting huge limits on finance and creating a massive social safety net. The Democrats dominated politics for 40 years on the back of New Deal economics. New Dealers were fearful of concentrated power bc too much economic power in few hands might lead to fascism. Sound familiar?
But in the 1970s Democratic leaders turned away from New Deal economic thinking bc it was old fashioned and the world had changed too much. They were wrong! A return to New Deal thinking is our best hope.
But try getting Democratic leaders, or people on this board for that matter, to admit that their most basic beliefs about economics have been mistaken. And that this all happened before and we have willfully ignored history bc they knew better.
But for anyone actually seeking answers, this is it. And it was wildly popular in addition to being morally correct.
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Food Town and Food Bazaar are both run-of-the-mill supermarket chains in NYC. They are neither health food stores nor “international food bazaars”.
I do think there’s a likely a wide variety of pricing and quality across these stores, and in many other neighborhoods. I have 2 supermarkets, pretty much equidistant. One is great, pretty reasonable prices for such a HCOL city IMO, fruits and vegetables always look solid. The other one, if I shopped there regularly, I’d likely spend 50-75% more on my groceries vs. he one I patronize. How it stays in business (it seems to get much less foot traffic) I have no idea. If the cheaper store up and left the neighborhood, I’d probably feel like I didn’t have access to reasonable priced groceries even thought there was a walkable grocery.
I listened to this podcast and they make a strong case that we should ban many of those advantages bc they hurt consumers and workers ultimately while benefitting only mega corporations. And that, if we actually enforced laws on mega corporations, they are already illegal.
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I’ve been wrong about a ton of things. And Fetterman is one of em.
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Me fucking too. I asked for my money back from him and it took a while but they sent it!
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yeah of course this is getting 100x more coverage than it should, it’s not his like #1 issue, he made an offhand “maybe we should try it out and see what happens and if it doesn’t work ok we’ll try something else” comment
at least in this case he did actually say it unlike the antisemitic stuff establishment dems are trying to smear him with
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More evidence for the issues don’t matter, the propaganda does tbh.
If dems wanted a more fundamentally sound and central candidate they just could have put up a non sex pest as their banner holder. This program shouldn’t be a deal breaker for literally anyone left of Trump should run NYC through the corrupt guy he pardoned
I don’t think it’s some core belief of his. I really think there’s demand for something to reduce grocery prices and he’s throwing something out to fix it. Whether or not it actually happens is a question, but politically he’s signaling that he cares about the issue.
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That’s a good joke
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Nationalizing grocery is good. In Canada the major grocery retailers were caught price fixing. If you don’t think this is happening in the USA#1 you are wrong.
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Really committed to public service.
I seem to remember something about a McKinsey client involved in Grocery store price fixing in Canada.
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It’s been a big issue here in Sweden in the last couple years too. Send the price fixers to prison.
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Maybe we need to nationalize CNN
Any true New Yorker would nationalize Gristedes in a heartbeat
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Going to listen to that. Looks interesting.
One of my favorite things as a small regional chain was diverting. Manufacturers would charge massively different prices in different parts of the country so we would buy sale and trade trailer loads of items to get around this. The national retailers never had to deal with this and manufacturers might punish you if they catch you diverting but we were a low price chain that served inner city and rural areas. We were squeezing every last penny out. We carried a limited regular inventory and then we had special items we rotated as we got deals.
Imagine it being cost effective to ship Gatorade from the east coast to Texas because they charged us so much more. This even included a small profit for the diverter. There is definitely a lot of filth behind the grocery business.
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