What environment have governments created where no one wants to open a grocery business?
I’m not sure we’re even remotely talking about the same type of environments. I think you’re blowing these far out if proportion. It’s simply a company that’s run like a regular company except owned by the government who sets up supermarkets along side numerous other supermarket companies.
Policy is their area of expertise and has major impact.
The people running the stores and figuring how this works are experts in this field, not the member of parliament that the public has elected. Governments are more than the executive and legislative branches, the agencies and other bodies also exist.
It’s not just a government run store, the products sold are being subsidized. Which is quite unfair to any small businesses/independents who have invested in the blast radius. Will they be compensated? (I’m not concerned about the large corps).
It wouldn’t surprise me if NYC saw a net reduction in grocery stores as a result.
So public money to subsidize costs of goods, and public money to subsidize costs of less efficient operations.
Is this the most effective use of public dollars?
I see NYC has incentives to open up grocery stores, good idea. Starting footprint is 5k sq feet… why so large? That would require something like an a million dollar build out… who is that incentive for?
I’m not sure we’re even remotely talking about the same type of environments. I think you’re blowing these far out if proportion. It’s simply a company that’s run like a regular company except owned by the government who sets up supermarkets along side numerous other supermarket companies.
The people running the stores and figuring how this works are experts in this field, not the member of parliament that the public has elected. Governments are more than the executive and legislative branches, the agencies and other bodies also exist.
It’s not just a government run store, the products sold are being subsidized. Which is quite unfair to any small businesses/independents who have invested in the blast radius. Will they be compensated? (I’m not concerned about the large corps).
It wouldn’t surprise me if NYC saw a net reduction in grocery stores as a result.
So public money to subsidize costs of goods, and public money to subsidize costs of less efficient operations.
Is this the most effective use of public dollars?
I see NYC has incentives to open up grocery stores, good idea. Starting footprint is 5k sq feet… why so large? That would require something like an a million dollar build out… who is that incentive for?