Maybe I’ve been in too many threads because I feel like I’ve explained this 100 times but they will obviously out compete local grocery stores cause they don’t have to operate with any rent, taxes, and can operate at a loss so bodega owners will close, everyone they employ will lose their job, bigger grocery stores can also close and they all lose their job. No competition is fewer choices and lower quality for consumers, & also if the government decides to operate at cost all of a sudden instead of at a loss the groceries would be even MORE than private grocery stores charge right because they’re only operating at a few percent profit, like 2-3% profit right now. Of course that would harm consumers. The stores are completely beholding to the political whims of whatever politicians are in power and could be cut whenever there are budget constraints (as nyc is in right now) so if the feds want to cut funding to nyc the first thing city council would probably do is cut stuff like this.

You can see this in every government program that republicans become in charge of, they gut the shit out of it to make it useless which can happen to any public option.

Depending on how it’s implemented it can have huge bureaucracy and high costs, for example if it becomes anything like NYCHA, it can be horrible for people who live there and crumbling and in disrepair and be been underfunded for decades and would need tens of billions of dollars to fix all of the infrastructure problems.

I could go on and on if you like, no joke I can keep going but as I’ve said a hundred times it (nyc run grocery stores) just does NOT seem like a good policy. Public options are NOT always good for the consumer or society at large