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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Now that's not fair. It could be one of the other model exemplars of government efficiency. Like the CRA!
I get this is the NDP thread but there's just no way "lower prices" is one of the things you're getting with a government grocer.
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It could be at the retail customer-facing level after the taxpayer has heavily subsidized it. In which case it's just an elaborate and inefficient wealth transfer mechanism. In practicality that's what's really being proposed. Pretending otherwise is extremely wishful / naive thinking ala Slava's 'Abolish the stock market' post in prior pages. If you understand / have worked in the grocery business or food supply chain, it would be painfully obvious that the gross margins are very thin relative to other industries and it's not very likely that there's a role to play by government that reduces costs, while also accomplishing a bunch of sub-commercial goals such as ensuring local supply, increasing quality, paying higher wages to employees, opening stores in sub-optimal locations from a demand perspective, subsidizing remote region food prices, etc.