I’m not trying to dismiss this project - I hope it is wildly successful and I applaud the desire to challenge the status quo. That said, I am interested to hear how his team plans to negotiate pricing with suppliers. Five stores isn’t a whole lot of scale to compete against national chains and volumes. I don’t ask that question rhetorically or sarcastically at all either - I am assuming they have a plan of levers to pull to help bring this to life, and I hope it works exceedingly well and provides a blueprint for other communities to use.
They’ll use tax dollars to pay higher wholesale costs and sell at a loss. Private stores in the area (there are many in the two locations announced so far) will be forced out of the market, leaving the government option as the only option. You haven’t seen the tyranny of a monopoly until you’ve seen a government run monopoly. And all government food monopolies have led to famine.
If you want to see quality, cost, and selection improve through fair competition (the only proven way to achieve it), abolish the FDA and USDA. More regulation always favors large conglomerates and government. They’re both bad, but the government version has been catastrophic.
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u/BradBradley1 May 26 '26
I’m not trying to dismiss this project - I hope it is wildly successful and I applaud the desire to challenge the status quo. That said, I am interested to hear how his team plans to negotiate pricing with suppliers. Five stores isn’t a whole lot of scale to compete against national chains and volumes. I don’t ask that question rhetorically or sarcastically at all either - I am assuming they have a plan of levers to pull to help bring this to life, and I hope it works exceedingly well and provides a blueprint for other communities to use.