The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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    It sounds like you do have a prejudice against those store chains. Those stores were closed because there was an insanely stupid amount of theft.

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      Funny how that’s the same excuse used by stores in my area that were trying to unionize. Weird that these two things always seem to align. It’s almost like monopolies are bad

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          How? If you have only 1 grocery store and you need to survive, then you must buy from that store.

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            You’re skipping a few steps there lad, 1. There’s more than 1 store, they might not carry everything so you’ll have to go to another store, but that is the reality of mom and pop shops. 2. How is it that a lot of those stores died out in the first place? Because you purchased everything at the large cooperation, and when the mom and pop shops closed you blamed the large storechain WHOM YOU GAVE YOUR MONEY TO. It’s like none of you understand that every action has a consequence and there is no one to blame but yourself. It’s a business, ofcourse they want profit, and you let them to the detriment of the shops you pretend to care so much about. You made your choice, stop fucking complaining.

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          Oh my fucking god dude.

          FOOD DESERT

          By definition there is little to no choice for these people.

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          They do, but Walmart has about a billion more votes.

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          “Voting with your wallet” means fuck all when some people’s wallets are hundreds of thousands times bigger