jackalopelipsky wrote: ↑6/23/2025, 1:41 pm
Is this an example of equity or equality? Socialism? Or, just a NYT’s paper packaging for the dead fish of Communism? Y’know, like how a fish n’ chip stand in UK wraps their socialism
Adding so many new grocery store employees is going to require beaucoup self check out counters to cover the no profit margins for New York households. Maybe cutting costs by importing Spam from Cuba, or something.
As usual, the communist ham-handed approach is a huge change for the sake of The People™ followed by a huge debacle for everyone.
Supermarkets make only about one percent profit, so it's not as if they're marking up prices to make themselves into cigar-chomping tycoons. Product prices are high in NYC because NYC produces almost nothing that goes on supermarket shelves—
almost everything has to be imported into NYC.
Why is importation a problem? Because everything has to be brought in via airports or over bridges and through tunnels that charge
huge tolls. So the provisioners have to mark up their charges to offset the tolls charges, and supermarkets have to raise prices to pay for it.
Why the high tolls? To reduce traffic congestion. What's NYC's solution to traffic congestion? Charging
congestion fees to commercial traffic while building more
"green areas" that interrupt traffic flow by cuting off certain streets and avenues to discourage driving in NYC,
raising the costs to provisioners who deliver products to supermarkets, and supermarkets have to raise prices to pay for it.
Why does NYC make it's tolls and fees so expensive? Because it's run by socialists, communists, and manipulatable imbeciles who squander every cent on bleeding-heart social issues; failed union-run education; criminals who take advantage of a hobbled police department rendered ineffective by the anti-police, anti-enforcement, Soros-owned DA; fraud and graft; and a sanctuary city policy combined with a massive influx of illegal aliens that NYC is determined to house and support at taxpayer expense.
And—
tah-dah—a native population fleeing because they can't afford to pay for both groceries and rent because rent is too high because renters are fleeing because the impossible cost of living in NYC forces landlords to charge higher prices because landlords lose money over fewer leases but still have to pay NYC property taxes and permit fees.
To quote Jack Nicholson's
Joker, "What this city needs is an enema."