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Originally Posted by Slava
I love seeing things like government grocery stores and other way left ideas from the NDP. It reminds me of their position they had years ago to abolish the stock market, and these kinds of things just remind why they’ll always be out in the political wilderness.
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Are Albertan's clamoring for the return of ALCB liquor stores?
Public grocery stores would be essentially taxpayer subsidized employment and contracts to private businesses. When you factor in all the sub-commercial things mentioned in that video ('Living wages' as defined by the NDP, mandatory union participation, Dictating where food is sourced from, Putting stores not where it makes economic sense but rather markets where private interests abandoned and combine it with the lack of accountability to the bottom line that plaques most government run enterprise and there would be no hypothetical profits left to distribute if the goal was also to undercut private grocery store pricing. Rather it would be the opposite, it would require massive taxpayer subsidies to keep afloat year after year.
When put that way there's probably more effective public tools at achieving the goals laid out than the boondoggle of creating a massive government run enterprise. Like just give poorer people money for food. It would be more effective and cheaper than blueprinting and creating from scratch a government food distribution network and stores.