(PJ Media)—With apologies to the Bard: “For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of”… grocery stores?
After years of struggling and millions of taxpayer dollars, the doors to Kansas City’s Sun Fresh Market closed for good on Tuesday. Sun Fresh was owned and operated by the city and was supposed to be “self-sustaining.”
The significance of the Sun Belt’s closing should not be lost on the residents of New York City. The probable next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is eager to open a chain of city-owned grocery stores because prices are too high in for-profit stores.
The profitless grocery stores are just one aspect of Mamdani’s socialist makeover for the city. Freezing rent, free buses, no cost childcare, 200,000 housing units over the next 10 years, and taxes on “big corporations” and “the rich” to pay for all of it.
The city-run grocery stores have gotten a lot of publicity because no one thinks they can work. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson got very excited about the idea until cooler heads prevailed, and the mayor gave up on getting state funding for the project.
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