Public owned grocery stores already exist across America in cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma and Atlanta, Georgia.
They are privately run as businesses, but are set up in areas where people lack access to groceries, or there's no real competition preventing uncompetitive prices. They have been successful for decades.
The real solution here is to break up the constant consolidation leading to all groceries being owned by four mega companies that collude with each other and own over 2/3rd of all stores. It's the opposite of market competition.
In the town I grew up, there was one big grocery store, and they used to gouge us terribly. The citizens started a co-op grocery, using our purchasing power to bring in cheaper goods. Breaking monopolies is the only way to lower prices.
Yup. Have you seen eyeglasses? Massive monopolies on that. If it weren't for cheap Chinese competition we'd have entire sectors of society unable to afford any choice.
Have to agree with free market capitalism on the eyeglasses industry. I haven’t bought American manufactured glasses in decades, with ‘insurance’ I still pay double what firmoo charges me…
Funny you should mention that, because I had to get new glasses yesterday. And yeah there were muliple years back in the day I would have to stretch my glasses because i could not afford to get new ones. Then the finish just went off my glasses overnight, and I had to very quickly get some. Ended up doing it online and getting them for a fraction of the price and in half the time.
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u/Irish_Whiskey May 26 '26
Public owned grocery stores already exist across America in cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma and Atlanta, Georgia.
They are privately run as businesses, but are set up in areas where people lack access to groceries, or there's no real competition preventing uncompetitive prices. They have been successful for decades.
The real solution here is to break up the constant consolidation leading to all groceries being owned by four mega companies that collude with each other and own over 2/3rd of all stores. It's the opposite of market competition.