The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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cOMmuNiSM! 😉 of the best kind..
aug 29, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This is great! It's the kind of thing Mamdani wants to do in NYC.
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Fabulous!
aug 30, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
And we didn’t ‘end up’ with food deserts. They were engineered, by corporate greed/interests. Just more evidence that an exponential increase in corporate tax is long overdue. Glad to see some cities are taking care of their people.
aug 29, 2025, 3:14 pm • 31 4 • view
The Krogers in my part of town. Which has become gentrified is making us show our receipts on the way out. I hadn't thought of it but I could refuse to show it. What can they do? Take back my groceries?
aug 29, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Food Deserts are also caused by overwhelming shoplifting. Research the Rite Aid built in Tacoma's "Hilltop" years ago. Shoplifting was so bad, the company walked away from the land, newly built store and lost less money than they would have lost if they'd stayed open.
aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Blaming shoplifting for food deserts is like blaming a few leaks for a sinking ship that was never properly built. The real problem is the flawed design, decades of neglect, not a few holes.
aug 29, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I tend to be dubious about claims from shops that they closed because of shoplifting. It's an easy excuse that shifts blame to the usual convenient scapegoats. "It was shoplifting! Totally not mismanagement!"
aug 29, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't celebrate too quickly. I helped build the grocer that was to combat our food desert and they have the highest prices
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 6 1 • view
There are definitely reasons for that...
aug 29, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
If the one in Georgia has financing from the city. They have a lot more power with overpricing.
aug 29, 2025, 4:38 pm • 9 0 • view
Ain't no good of its priced to high to buy
aug 29, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
But but but that’s communism /s
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂
aug 29, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
aug 29, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I love this so much!
aug 29, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d love to see that happen here in Seattle’s downtown area. They’re building a hell of a lot of condos but not any grocery 🏬
aug 29, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Government stores This will go well… Until it doesn’t
aug 29, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems to have gone pretty well for the military commissaries.
aug 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Our military… is not set up as a capitalist democracy. A government system that takes over business? Communism. Google it.
aug 29, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a partnership. Capitalism hasn’t been working, have you noticed ‘grocery’ stores are now Dollar stores with a processed food aisle? I bet you have a grocery store with real food within a reasonable distance.
aug 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
‘Gummint bad’ is a big part of how we got right where we are today. Reject their ideological perspective.
aug 29, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Actually not… against our Constitutional government. Or Capitalism, with a heart. But Trump, is working through Socialism for the rich… Communism for himself and straight on into Dictatorship. That. Ideological perspective? Not Constitutional. And. No. Not interested.
aug 29, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Communism always works never.
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
So Zorhan Mamdani is not all wet behind the ears I guess!
aug 30, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Better late than never. I grew up in Atlanta and we would regularly go to the State farmers market. There were row after row after row a fresh produce and a restaurant on site which served fresh food.
aug 29, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Mayor Dixon’s recognizes the food deserts. Now maybe more grocery chains will step up to put business in there.
aug 29, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Show everyone how it’s done Atlanta!
aug 29, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
aug 29, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Great News!!
aug 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That's wonderful
aug 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I can’t imagine not having a real grocery store near me! It must be hard on Atlanta!
aug 29, 2025, 7:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I hope it works well. RFK Jr. is spreading lies about accepted and tested science, but one of the many issues the U.S. has is the unavailability of decent food in many areas at prices that people can afford.
aug 29, 2025, 10:53 pm • 6 1 • view
Communist....fuck the POtuS.
aug 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I loved buying fresh from the farmer's market downtown when I visited Atlanta a few years back.
aug 29, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Congratulations, Atlanta💪🏼
aug 30, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
great, but can the poor and working class afford it?
aug 29, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
A different link for those barred from the original one outside the United States. Those who relentlessly assured us that Capitalism Will Provide have been shown to be full of it on thus showing. atlanta.urbanize.city/post/azalea-...
aug 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Rite Aid tried the same thing years ago in Tacoma's "Hilltop" neighborhood. Bought land, put up a brand new building and quickly closed because the company was losing too much money to shoplifting.
aug 29, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't it true that HOAs don't allow houses to have bars on windows because it looks "ugly"?
aug 29, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
HOAs ?
aug 29, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Home owner association. They can regulate how your house looks like, usually in the suburbs. In other countries it's normal to have bar at windows and high walls, the richer a neighborhood is, the more its spent in security. Only in the US people think security measures means crime.
aug 29, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
It is only under (cough) ‘communism’ that the people of Atlanta can get fresh vegetables? Didn’t see that one coming.
aug 29, 2025, 3:26 pm • 11 0 • view
Americans should read "The Conquest of Bread" from 1850, freely available online. It will open your eyes.
aug 30, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop lying.
aug 29, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
A classic argument. Backed up by solid supporting evidence. Who could fail to be persuaded?
aug 29, 2025, 4:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Research the "Rite Aid" built in Tacoma's "Hilltop" years ago. Closed due to overwhelming shop lifting. You don't see metal fences over windows and doors in other parts of the city.
aug 29, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you. This is the kind of thing I was after. I am not from the United States, though I have visited, and so have been intrigued by the sometimes strange mix of shops you find on American streets.
aug 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
This is wonderful!
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Good onya mates !
aug 29, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
This is good governance
aug 30, 2025, 7:24 am • 1 0 • view
Wait 'til Mad Marge finds out! 😱
aug 29, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Not her district, she can die mad.
aug 30, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
This is what real community investment looks like. More cities should follow.
aug 29, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
People helping people. What a novel idea.🙄👍
aug 29, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
And we know that the powers that be in red GA will do all they can to shut it down; like they just did in red Kansas; like they succeeded at doing in red FL... because some people don't deserve grocery stores, if they're older, poorer, or of course, 'those people'... can't go offering good services.
aug 29, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Fantastic! Let the people EAT healthy food!
aug 29, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
It's a good thing The View is on hiatus because the Trumper would need a fainting couch. SOCIALISM!
aug 29, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Good grief, just make an Aldis open there in exchange for all of their other stores.
aug 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 1 • view
But if suggested by Momdani he's a 'Commie!"
aug 30, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
We need more solutions like this. Getting fresh food to people improves health.
aug 29, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
About time!
aug 29, 2025, 3:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, we can’t have that. Better than ICE and the National Guard to shut that shit down. MAGA is the reason we can’t have nice things anymore.
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
How are you going to have fresh fruit and veggies when Trump is detaining immigrants and farmers are struggling
aug 29, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
We have state workers' compensation funds, state and local transit agencies, state windstorm insurance pools. I don't know why this is so controversial. Serving something private companies say they can't provide.
aug 29, 2025, 4:08 pm • 11 0 • view
Many of them multi billion dollar companies, companies that created these situations in the first place.
aug 29, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I bet it's not controversial in Atlanta.
aug 29, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Bet they close down in a year from shoplifting costs.
aug 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t believe all the lies megacorporations try to sell you. theweek.com/crime/102003...
aug 30, 2025, 5:33 am • 5 1 • view
Having worked at an urban grocery, yeah theft is a problem. No it's not reported. Even with bathroom codes people would shoot up in the bathrooms. But we didn't lock stuff up. We always were on the floor asking "can I help you". Adequate staffing is what's needed.
aug 30, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure it can be a problem. But it’s hardly the business-destroying epidemic that the big national retailers wanted you to think it was.
aug 30, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
#GoodThings
aug 29, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Hell yes. Hope we see these pop up in more and more places.
aug 30, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Awesome news!
aug 29, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t tell Washington.
aug 29, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you @benpalmertrolls.bsky.social for this wonderful program
aug 29, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Those MAGA who foam at the mouth about all those lefty socialists and communists will think this and having a stake in a private company like Intel isn’t socialism. The same group that likes to call liberals pedophiles, but hope the Epstein files stay closed.
aug 29, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Our only hope is in each other - the good and decent majority who believe in honor and lending a hand where it’s needed.
aug 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Great idea!!!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Awesome
aug 29, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait what!? State owned grocery stores? This is communism, right? Maybe it's just communism if it's done in NY by a brown politician. Someone please clarify 😅😅😅
aug 29, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
What do they call them at military bases--comissarries?
aug 29, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes!
aug 30, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
I like that. Why ask permission?
aug 29, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
More 👏 of 👏 this 👏
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
Is this the same thing #ZohranMamdani wants to do in New York?
aug 30, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
and they say it can't be done.
aug 30, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
And there will be a military and ICE presence sent by Trump to 'monitor public safety' in 3...2...1.
aug 29, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
with Trump calling Atlanta's mayor "Low IQ" which he always seem to slap that label on people who look a certain way.
aug 29, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It will fail. Governments are terrible at this sort of thing.
aug 30, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
Trump is likely to call the NG over this. Groceries is a sacred word to him.
aug 29, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
This is Atlanta, right? Isn't this exactly what Zohran Mamdani is promoting in his policies that GOP is saying is Socialist/Communist/...ist? Seems like an outstanding idea for citizens.
aug 29, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Good. I hope it succeeds.
aug 29, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Ooh, I love it! Keep us updated!
aug 29, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't like the public-private partnership of it, that means it'll still be profit driven instead of a public service, but progress is progress.
aug 29, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This is great for the people of Atlanta but raises the question of why capitalism hasn't solved this problem. Or perhaps capitalism isn't equipped to handle problems like these. Incentives make a difference.
aug 29, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Capitalism doesn't solve problems
aug 29, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Socialism....keeping people alive and healthy since...forever.
aug 30, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 3:40 pm • 49 2 • view
you can have all of georgia, but theodosia she's mine
aug 29, 2025, 5:59 pm • 9 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:01 pm • 7 0 • view
As a Georgian, it's really just the city of Atlanta and maybe a few surrounding suburbs. And even the its just in comparison to a state like Florida (plenty of places are WAY more progressive in governance). What we're doing especially well with is new density near transit/multi-use paths.
aug 29, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not all hugs and puppies here yet. Our governor thinks the best option for a senator is not even the kooky but experienced MAGA lawmakers. No, it’s his buddy with a famous last name who could not win football games.
aug 29, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Good move
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I sure hope they'll participate in the SNAP and WIC progams.
aug 29, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 29, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Good idea 👍🏼
aug 29, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Good news stories amid a cacophony of bleak and bluster. Thankfully.
aug 29, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope it survives
aug 30, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
If it works in Atlanta, it can work on NYC. Isn't this a solution to federal cuts to SNAP?
aug 30, 2025, 6:15 am • 2 0 • view
I'll give it 6 months.
aug 29, 2025, 4:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, the concept seems good and all but this has already been tried and failed. Sun Fresh Market in Kansas City was created for the same reason and the neighborhood shoplifted that store until it was empty.
aug 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Let's just hope they sell more fresh vegetables then hot dogs, potato chips and soda pop.
aug 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
That's cool. Are they still building cop city against the will of the people?
aug 29, 2025, 3:15 pm • 1 0 • view
That's been so necessary for so long. I've lived in some of those neighborhoods (before gentrification) & I was extremely lucky to have a car to fetch groceries with. I'm really glad to hear this!
aug 29, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
That's awesome! Hope it goes well!
aug 29, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 1 • view
Wonderful news. ❤️
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Bravo! We need this here in DC in Wards 7 and 8.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 1 • view
But but but zohran is scary socialist right?
aug 29, 2025, 2:44 pm • 39 0 • view
This was my first thought!
aug 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
That's wonderful! I hope to see more states and communities following this example 🙏
aug 29, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonderful news!
aug 29, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought the idea of a socialism store was abhorrent- in NYC. But in a red state it’s fine?
aug 29, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
What are the Vegas odds it goes belly up within 2 years? I was in this career field and unless taxpayer end up subsidizing this 100% it's doomed to fail. The suburbs will feed the downtown, it's simply another form of wealth transfer by politicians.
aug 30, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
All conservatives should stay away or risk becoming....A COMMUNIST. BUM BUM BUUUUMMM
aug 30, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
BASED
aug 30, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
Fantastic! Same thing that Mamdami wants to do in NYC! 👏
aug 29, 2025, 5:30 pm • 30 3 • view
Except that this place and the ones planned for NYC may work out as well as those in KC. What would the effect of city owned food stores have on the mom & pop bodegas?
aug 29, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Or every grocery store on every military base
aug 29, 2025, 8:04 pm • 10 1 • view
No wonder you're the Queen. You know that's right! theweek.com/politics/mam...
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Mamdani is the only hope I have for the Democratic Party and they aren’t backing him. We need more DSA and less strongly worded letters. Primary 2026 !
aug 30, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Yet, in my city in the suburbs we have at least 9 grocery stores (with three more coming soon.) Not counting targets or Walmarts and little mom and pop shops. 🙈 I hope this works. I worry about the businesses traveling to these stores to buy them out then they take back to their stores to upsell.
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
More of this! 🥰👌
aug 29, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 2:34 pm • 28 1 • view
more please!
aug 29, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Good
aug 29, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
The 'Mamdani effect' just dropped!
aug 29, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
holy shit are we experiencing the trappings of a developed nation with actual urban planning for a moment here
aug 29, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Solve shrinkage issues in stores and retailers will return
aug 29, 2025, 3:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Ooh! How dare you mention theft in urban high crime neighborhoods! It's almost as though businesses don't want to operate in dangerous parts of cities.
aug 29, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Red States lose just as many retailers in rural areas due to theft because of poverty
aug 30, 2025, 12:01 am • 2 0 • view
Good idea.
aug 30, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
NICE
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
necessary spending for a red state, commie marxist socialism lazy poors for a blue state
aug 29, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 30, 2025, 6:34 am • 0 0 • view
So Mamdani won't be the first to do it. AMAZING! All the crap they've thrown at the man is beyond belief.
aug 29, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
OMG. COMMUNISM MOST FOUL!!!!!!!!!
aug 29, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Do you even know what Communism is? Obviously not!
aug 29, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Sarcasm really is lost on some folks.
aug 29, 2025, 3:46 pm • 4 0 • view
You obviously don't have a doctorate in sarcasm.
aug 29, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
My apologies. I am not good with sarcasm on social media.
aug 29, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGAs are against poor people eating. Disgusting. Only they would think eating is a communist plot.
aug 29, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
#rotate
aug 30, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏
aug 29, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
So Zohran Mamdani wasn’t that crazy, right?
aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope it works. I have concerns. I worked at Macy’s on Peachtree and saw the complexity of a city firsthand.
aug 29, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
This is precisely what Mamdani in NYC was talking about. And this is precisely why MAGAts hate him so much. Their foundation is racism. Mamdani is addressing systemic racism and they hate him for it.
aug 29, 2025, 4:59 pm • 8 1 • view
Centrist Democrats such as Booker, Schumer and Jeffries hate Mamdani too. They're deadbeats. Primary them ASAP.
aug 29, 2025, 6:09 pm • 5 0 • view
The Dem establishment already sidelined even David Hogg, too. Dems are not our saviors and are in league with the end of the republic.
aug 29, 2025, 9:00 pm • 2 0 • view
They are operating against our interests. We must run principled men and women who'll work on our behalf rather than their wealthiest donors. Primary every single one of the deadbeats.
aug 29, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd disagree about Hogg. People felt he should not BOTH run an org to primary incumbents (Leaders We Deserve), AND an org (DNC) that shouldn't play favorites with Dems. (The DNC should stay hands off until after primary.) It's fine with him doing either one, just not both at the same time.
aug 29, 2025, 11:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Democrats undermine the parties nominees after they win the primary or party endorsement. See Mamdani, see Fateh. Both Schumer and Jeffries are formally members of the DNC and are not endorsing Mamdani. The party revoked the endorsement of Fateh. These people are neutral, they are working against
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
left, even at the general election stage. They would rather fascists win than the left.
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Some of them are. Unlike Repubs, Dems have always had trouble shutting up & staying in line (Will Rogers said "I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.) So what's your answer? Get rid of the party? That's suicide. /1
aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop pretending the party removing Hogg was anything but what it was. Another centrist power play. And stop pretending the party is neutral. It’s not it exists to destroy the left not fight fascists.
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, it's a center-right party (the Repubs are extreme right). But neither Greens nor SWP have shown much ability to get elected. What else we got?
aug 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
What typically happens when a party does not represent a viable constituency it falls and gets replaced, usually rapidly by something more responsive. I mean these guys lost to Trump badly and won’t even change course on much of anything.
aug 30, 2025, 12:22 am • 1 0 • view
Incumbents in Democrats are useless
aug 29, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe you hate people like Elizabeth Warren and AOC, but I don't.
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
There are about 250 Democrats in congress Math isn't your strong suit
aug 29, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Those are 2. Not sure what your point is. ofc we need more better ones. But tossing incumbents just means they'll all be newbies (will your newbies be better? what does *your* math say?) and not know the ropes. Moving more power to unelected (long-term) bureaucrats. (See Britcom "Yes, Minister")
aug 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
My point is that embedded incumbents in the party have driven the party further and further to the right while preventing it from going back to the left. They do this because they want doner largess AKA limos, corporate jet rides, fancy brunch buffets, etc. more than they want things for the people
aug 30, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
But you can bet a whole paycheck that if something like this came to Their City, they'd be all over spending money there. F*cking Hypocrites.
aug 30, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately the article seems to be unavailable outside the USA. However, it is a marvelous idea. It will be interesting to hear of its success & future growth - and of "chains" realizing the errors of their absence. All The Best 🏆👍😀
aug 29, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Brilliant. I hope the partnership succeeds and is a successful model for all the other US food deserts.
aug 29, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a good trend to see across the nation.
aug 29, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Good luck. It’s been tried at least twice here, and each time they closed after a few months. Something about “insufficient profits” and whatnot.
aug 29, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Great idea!
aug 30, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
If you live in one of these districts, PLEASE go vote in the special election ~ Virginia's 11th ~ September 9, 2025 Arizona's 7th ~ September 23, 2025 Texas' 18th ~ November 4, 2025 Tennessee's 7th ~ December 2, 2025
aug 29, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💚💚💚
aug 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
❤️😁
aug 29, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Good for them. It should make Mandami's idea look less surprising, too. We need something to happen in Denver where there are only two large market chains. Food is crazy expensive here because of that.
aug 29, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Baltimore? Next.
aug 29, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, a state run grocery store sounds like communism, now if you’ll excuse me I need to stake a 10% position in a multinational chip designer.
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 pm • 205 5 • view
Like state run liquor stores?
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
Also have to stop off at the PX on post.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
Bro stopped at the state run grocery store and didn’t even ask if I wanted a white monster… 😢
aug 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you not hear it’s socialism if dems do it. The Magat Scum have rebranded it as State Capitalism. We live in an absurdity
aug 29, 2025, 4:05 pm • 6 0 • view
"State Capitalism" ... led by a guy who bankrupted multiple businesses, including casinos. Yeah, of course they like it.
aug 29, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Xactly
aug 29, 2025, 3:22 pm • 19 1 • view
Entirely state owned is how you truly benefit the people, ppp’s tends to protect the interests of the private bit of the partnership. At least it means a store I guess.
aug 30, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 4 0 • view
May as well since rfkjr lifts all fda precautions and seems way too much listeria and salmonella gets by them anyway. Just ask to not bring pesticide treated foods. Rather have a little bug that can be seen and removed than organ killing sprays.
aug 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Please become a model for other cities
aug 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't see why this is so controversial. Many states own and operate their liquor stores. What's the difference here, besides promoting a public good that's actually...good?
aug 29, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
😯
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
Will it last as long as the one in Kansas City?
aug 30, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
When New England makes an EU like economic union? ATL and Huston and maaaybe Huntsville should all join.
aug 29, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
But wasn’t that communism when it was suggested for New York City?
aug 29, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
This was one of the shocking things I learned while staying in Nashville downtown area. There was no decent grocery store in 2 miles. Planned a mostly car free vacation and had to walk two miles to find some fresh fruits. Is there another reason than abject racism of corporations?
aug 29, 2025, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Sadly the case in a lot of places. I USED to have a nice little local grocery store about a five minute walk from my house. Sadly it close some time back, the building sat empty, and has since been demolished and has been a vacant lot ever since, and thanks to NIMBY types might never have anything
aug 29, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Many companies and businesses choose not to operate in high crime areas. You really think a corporation would choose racism over profit? Sheesh.
aug 29, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Awesome!!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:56 pm • 3 0 • view
More of this, please.
aug 29, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
So why is it not socialism when it’s done in Atlanta but is when suggested for NYC?
aug 30, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope they don’t have ice cream….MAGA will get very upset any SNAP funds being spent on such a luxury….oh, God, and certainly no potato chips….GASP..!
aug 29, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
God forbid Zohran do the same….
aug 29, 2025, 7:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I like this SO much better than cop city.
aug 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 7 0 • view
I hope prices can be reasonable enough to make it work!
aug 29, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
aug 29, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Uh oh. The redneck GQPs ain’t gonna like this. Margarine Turnip Greens is probably losing her mind right now.
aug 29, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you Atlanta!!
aug 29, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t this what Mandani wants to do in NYC….
aug 29, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
This makes me so happy and fills me with a bit of dread. Part of our taxes should be committed to feeding people. With how much food we produce, it’s criminal how much food we just throw away. We have enough to feed everyone. I hope this catches on here in California. 🤞🙏
aug 30, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
I just get nervous when I see this kind of stuff because the oligarchs directing the government have historically been very much against feeding people. Think the Black Panthers, Nipsey Hussle, etc. If they can’t shut you down they’ll just take you out.
aug 30, 2025, 5:26 am • 1 0 • view
The thing a lot of you don't understand: Atlanta is a blue oasis in a desert of red fuckery.
aug 30, 2025, 2:55 am • 2 0 • view
Listening to the radio the other day I heard that the city is going to spend a million dollars more than that on the dog park rescue. I'm just pointing out the irony.
aug 29, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Very cool! Also they could build at least 30 of these with what was spent on Cop City.
aug 29, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I see your photo shows a fabulous fresh produce section. Walmart has a fabulous fresh produce section, too. But people still *choose* to buy Cheetos, Doritos and Fritos. Instead of spending millions on a grocery store which duplicates every other grocery store; why not just expand bus service?
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It's literally located at the public transport hub for the city. Which also happens to be a food desert.
aug 29, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
But they’re also building a police city or whatever it is.
aug 29, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
One store, in the tourist district, at triple the cost to shoppers.
aug 29, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
"Inventory shrinkage in low-income neighborhoods is often higher than in affluent areas" ~ Google AI If grocery chains won't locate in a low-income neighborhood, then government should lend a hand.
aug 29, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought the free market always worked..... ?
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Are the MAGAt scum screeching Socialism as they cheer dear leader’s seizure of Intel?
aug 29, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
They're probably claiming he saved Intel and are yelling "go woke go broke"
aug 29, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
But I’ve been told this is not possible/ could never happen/ defies the very laws of physics/ is only a made up idea to fool gullible NYC leftists
aug 29, 2025, 4:22 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent, except the cost of produce is soon going to skyrocket!
aug 29, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Buy in-season for your locale and buy from local farms.
aug 29, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Uhhh, yeah but there is not a growing/harvesting season where I live.
aug 29, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't live on planet Earth?
aug 29, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
💪👏👏
aug 29, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
SOCIALISM !! DEMOCRATS GONE WILD !! EMPATHY !! STOP THE MADNESS !! NATIONAL GUARD !!
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Heinen's converted an old bank building & opened a full service grocery store in downtown Cleveland. It's really useful to people who live & work there. It's heavily utilized.
aug 29, 2025, 3:09 pm • 110 11 • view
I love seeing historical buildings reused like this, and that communal space in middle, mmmf, we need more of that.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 6 0 • view
How about abandoned malls? So many out there!
aug 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I know one not too far form me is being partly redeveloped, there was another that closed years ago sadly it was demolished, so much cool 90s stuff lost. Luckily most of the other malls I visit are usually busy, but yeah, would be cool to repurpose the abandoned ones too.
aug 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
What a cool looking space!
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 pm • 27 1 • view
It is. The building was completed in 1908. It obviously still has a lot of lovely features.
aug 29, 2025, 3:28 pm • 29 1 • view
Huh. I'm trying to think of a similar place in Cincinnati and all I can think of is the old Tellers in Hyde Park that's closed now, also in a former bank location with a "vault room" for parties. We definitely have food deserts here though, and this is the home of the Kroger Corporation!
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 9 1 • view
Kroger sucks the blood of the people!
aug 29, 2025, 6:07 pm • 10 1 • view
Aye, and profiteering during a pandemic, Kroger is thy name...
aug 29, 2025, 6:46 pm • 6 1 • view
I am currently living in an area where Kroger has actual competition and I am absolutely baffled how they stay in business here.
aug 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That was the motive behind the proposed merger with Albertson's - eliminate all the competition.
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
It's weird, Albertson's was the expensive place anywhere I went which had both (and Safeway after the merger). It was Walmart that was anchoring most prices, then Kroger. My perception of that proposal at the time was that it would be unleashing the worst tendencies of Albertson's.
aug 30, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I was out of the US for a long time, so I missed Kroger going batshit crazy.
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
They just don’t make em like they used to. Everything’s so plain now.
aug 30, 2025, 5:27 am • 2 0 • view
Heinen’s -there’s a great childhood memory from the Cleveland burbs (too expensive for my family, but the source of treats for special occasions).
aug 30, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
I love Heinen’s, and this area sorely needed a grocery store to support the growing residential population, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a food desert here. A food desert is what happens when they close the Collinwood Dave’s.
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
WOW!
aug 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
A red state did that?🧐 Wow! Community gardens work too! Someone just told me they weren’t allowed plants on their patio at their apartment.
aug 29, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool...but too expensive for most residents and there's still many food deserts in Cleveland.
aug 30, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
I hope it goes well; we've been waiting for a city government to get the courage and will to do something like this for ages.
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 pm • 28 0 • view
You Americans are fucked. Nobody will help you bunch of corporate sell outs.
aug 29, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
They fail because those in food deserts have access to food banks. Why shop at a grocery store when you can get food free? Ours has not broken even after 4 years. Other one closed.
aug 29, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
And the added expense of operating in a high crime area. More losses due to shoplifting, more costs related to security and having metal bars installed over doors and windows.
aug 29, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s about time!
aug 29, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s excellent
aug 29, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
How dare thee promote the general welfare, & ensure domestic tranquility… (more please)
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
This is fantastic but how long until the rabid dogs come pull people off the street and throw him into unmarked cars because they're shopping in a store
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
of the people for the people by the people isn't Atlanta one of the stupid racist red states that voted for murikka's version of fucknut hitler?
aug 29, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Atlanta is a big city, and like all big cities its blue. Georgia as a state is red in the most recent US election, but was blue in the prior, could consider them purple perhaps.
aug 29, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Georgia, not so much Atlanta, voted for that POS. Greetings from a blue dot!
aug 29, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
So cool. Good luck. Thus could be a pilot program for other states.
aug 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Walmart and one grocery store are in our small town. There used to be four grocery stores here, in the city center. Walmart is built on the outskirts of town, so the walking poor have to use convenience stores located in town. This is rural red America now. High prices, nothing fresh
aug 29, 2025, 4:43 pm • 20 3 • view
Hey
aug 29, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Are we from the same hometown, or does this seem like a "feature not a bug" sort of thing
aug 29, 2025, 5:07 pm • 9 0 • view
Rural Alabama here, but I have lived in other red states, it's the same in all of them.
aug 30, 2025, 3:18 am • 5 0 • view
Im from northern NY, really any rural place is the same.
aug 30, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
Eeyup. I'm in a low income town in MI, and it's the same. No car now so my options for food are to either walk 90 minutes to the nearest small grocery store, that has prices 1.5 times higher than anyone else, or instacart Aldi for about double the cost of going in person. It's shit all around.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
💔 we,the poor, have joined all the other disenfranchised
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
This is the news I’m here for!
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
So want this to work for them. I’m in CA, no hope that Tulare County will try this. Weird out here, food desert in the middle of a big Ag county.
aug 29, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
@landericus.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com
sep 1, 2025, 4:36 am • 0 0 • view
Let’s goooo!
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Excellent
aug 30, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
Communist… JK…… Good for them. A healthy community benefits all
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you.
aug 29, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
'murika. The New third world.
aug 30, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
NYC has had this since the 1930s. Zorhan expanding this is not communist or radical. Public Markets since the 1930s... #nyc #zorhan www.nyc.gov/site/foodpol...
aug 30, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view
This is the way!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️✊️✊️✊️
aug 30, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
We need more of this! Food inequality in this country is real.
aug 29, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Awww. You're adorable. When I shop at Walmart, I take advantage of their huge selection of reasonably priced fresh produce. Other folks take advantage of their huge selection of reasonably priced Cheetos, Doritos and Fritos.
aug 29, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
If you were a business owner, would you willingly choose to open a location in a high crime area?
aug 29, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
People having access to food is a good thing. Trump will rant & rave against this. And blame Communists
aug 29, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
He'll rant about the prices being higher when that's largely his regime's fault.
aug 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Respectfully, the term "food desert" implies that the absence of a market and/or fresh produce in an area is a natural phenomenon. It's not. It's about corporate decisions. (I've seen the alternative term "food apartheid." Not sure that's the best answer, either....)
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 pm • 46 3 • view
But I, as a foreigner, understand quite well the idea I think that what really matters is the communication being effective... And I do agree with you about corporate and capitalist decisions that take place and create these situations
aug 29, 2025, 2:45 pm • 46 1 • view
Desertification can happen via man made causes, such as overuse of water sources, excessive plant removals or just draining the soil of nutrients, as happened with the Dust Bowl, so I think it still fits
aug 29, 2025, 4:14 pm • 9 0 • view
You’re probably one of those people insisting on using “unhoused” instead of “homeless” because you think it makes you less of a moron
aug 29, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Which part of that was respectful?
aug 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Food desert is a ln established term in sociology and urban planning, dating back 25 years in common usage but coined over 40 years ago. Gotta update your lexicon once in a while
aug 29, 2025, 4:17 pm • 17 1 • view
Food dessert works just fine. We all know what it means.
aug 29, 2025, 4:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Years ago, Rite Aid invested in Tacoma's "Hilltop" neighborhood. Land was purchased, a store was built & opened. There was a refrigerated section with milk, eggs, butter, cheese & meat. A small produce section offered fresh fruit & vegetables. Overwhelming shoplifting & the location was closed.
aug 29, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
How about "corporate misnathropy"
aug 29, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 1 • view
Can you not
aug 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 6 0 • view
I have never, for one minute, thought the term ‘food desert’ refers to a natural phenomenon.
aug 29, 2025, 5:50 pm • 7 0 • view
It implies no such thing.
aug 29, 2025, 5:40 pm • 8 0 • view
Man-made desertification is a thing too, so I think the metaphor is apt.
aug 29, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why we lose normies
aug 29, 2025, 4:29 pm • 10 0 • view
Interesting- TO ME it means an area that has been screwed over by shit elite$, leaving a bunch of citizens screwed over by markets rigged to fuck them over. TO ME - It is a deliberate desert. Sadly, the public sector diddlefucks who accept too much of the market rigging enable the rigging.
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Rather pedantic
aug 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 5 0 • view
This location is near 5 points, which will serve the community that you might not see. The closest grocery store is about 2 miles away, but if you don't have transportation, you are stuck as to where you can buy fresh food. Food prices are high every thank to Felon47
aug 29, 2025, 5:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I'd love to see that happen in downtown Albany. But instead, Kathy Hochul will funnel $100M to consultants who will donate to her campaign.
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
aug 29, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view