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NY state, foundations poured money into Syracuse grocery that has closed. Again.
Post Standard, Syracuse, New York ^
| 01.10.18
| By Teri Weaver
Posted on 01/10/2018 6:58:03 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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Another example of government trying to pick winners and losers...and failing.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I’m sure the ‘hoodrats on ‘da southside shoplifted it into bankruptcy.
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posted on
01/10/2018 6:59:46 PM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Now, with the store closed, it’s possible the state will ask for that money back.
Good luck with that.
L
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:00:10 PM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: Lurker
I don’t think bankruptcy means what they think it means.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:02:21 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Probably no middle eastern or far eastern people involved. You cannot start a project like this without the owner being on sight.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:03:14 PM PST
by
HChampagne
(Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
...teach a man to fish, and he’ll steal your equipment and sell it....
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:03:15 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Behind Liberal Lines
They were probably trying to sell quinoa, tofu, and kefir to a clientele who preferred fried chicken, skittles, and 40s.
To: Ouderkirk; Hieronymus; VampireStateNY; governsleastgovernsbest; gaspar; NativeNewYorker; Atticus; ..
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:06:05 PM PST
by
Behind Liberal Lines
(Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Perhaps the Syracuse business school should have shown them that there was no strategy that would make this a successful venture. Communism doesn’t work.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:09:18 PM PST
by
Purdue77
(Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:15:33 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
They should encourage something like Aldis to move in.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:21:34 PM PST
by
tbw2
To: Behind Liberal Lines
They live in food deserts because they shoplift stores into bankruptcy.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:23:15 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: HChampagne; Behind Liberal Lines; Ouderkirk
The larger goal for Eat to Live called for putting an affordable grocery store with fresh produce into a "food desert" on South Salina Street. Instead of creating a traditional for-profit business, leaders formed a co-op, meaning members would run the store and share in any future profits.In the end, despite other grocery stores being a mile or farther away from Eat to Live, not enough people shopped at the co-op.
What do you know, another socialist failure.
None of the members actually put any of their own money in to this business so it should be no surprise that the business failed.
My guess is that this store failed because of high rates of product shrinkage. Namely that the employees are stealing the stores food and giving it away.
The story does not say why the first manager was fired. My guess is that he caught an employee stealing and fired that employee which caused a problem with one of the organizers of this social experiment.
Hchampaign said it right. You cannot start a project like this without the owner being on sight.
Someone with serious skin in the game and authority to fire bad performing employees and make decisions has to be on the premises. Grocery stores operate on thin profit margins and are fiercely competitive.
Note that there is another private grocery store a mile away from this market in the food desert and this subsidized grocery store can not compete.
Lets face it this store is not needed and can not compete because it is operated by people with no interest in its success.
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:26:11 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: Doogle
Yep, welcome to US Utopian Multi-Culti.
Thanx, ‘Rats & Rinos...
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:29:19 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:32:50 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Lol,the desperate rubes in Syracuse (I’m a native) have been fleeced yet again. Anybody remember the Simpson’s episode that spoofed The Music Man? Next project in Syracuse is a monorail!!!
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posted on
01/10/2018 7:57:59 PM PST
by
Panzerfaust
(The HK P7 .....it's what Jesus would carry.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
At the linked site, there’s a collection of the most insulting comments I have ever read. They make us look like pikers.
To: Doogle
LOL...feed a gaggle of hippies and get assaulted by an empty shopping cart...with 3 wheels!
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posted on
01/10/2018 8:48:30 PM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Read another story further down:
New York City sues, divests from oil firms over climate change.
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posted on
01/10/2018 9:22:23 PM PST
by
Eagles6
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Also known as crony capitalism or is it crony cooperative(ism)?
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posted on
01/11/2018 3:56:42 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(Crush the Democrats; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the girly men.)
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