stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter storesfinance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: news@kbin.social
arrow-up1486arrow-down1external-link'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter storesfinance.yahoo.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square115fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@kbin.social
minus-squareUncle_Iroh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down43·1 year agoIt sounds like you do have a prejudice against those store chains. Those stores were closed because there was an insanely stupid amount of theft.
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down3·1 year agoFunny 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
minus-square42Firehawk@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year agoHow? If you have only 1 grocery store and you need to survive, then you must buy from that store.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoOh my fucking god dude. FOOD DESERT By definition there is little to no choice for these people.
minus-squarellii@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year agoThey do, but Walmart has about a billion more votes.
minus-squareiByteABit [he/him]@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year ago“Voting with your wallet” means fuck all when some people’s wallets are hundreds of thousands times bigger
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agohttps://reddthat.com/post/4806295 Show some data
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.
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
Vote qith your wallet
How? If you have only 1 grocery store and you need to survive, then you must buy from that store.
Oh my fucking god dude.
FOOD DESERT
By definition there is little to no choice for these people.
They do, but Walmart has about a billion more votes.
What wallet? I’m broke
“Voting with your wallet” means fuck all when some people’s wallets are hundreds of thousands times bigger
Source?
“Theft”
https://reddthat.com/post/4806295
Show some data