This was an Adair Mosley project, the grocery was operated by Pillsbury United Communities. Running a grocery store felt like mission creep for a foundation and it felt like the subsidies they put into were always going to sink them. Maybe the 2.0 plan is being more honest with themselves on what they want to do, though I’m not sure a food incubator is what the community needs.
I used to live close to North Market. It had an awesome community vibe but the prices were really high especially considering its location. It was the closest grocery store to where I lived but I found it much cheaper just to stop at the grocery stores close to my work than going there so it was only for when I needed something last minute.
I almost never go to cub, but anytime I do, I'm annoyed by how expensive it is relative to how shitty the store is. It's byerlys prices with k-mart quality and aesthetic.
What the fuck are we supposed to do? It's a food and amenity desert here. So many of my neighbors don't have reliable transportation or are disabled and can't commute over to Fridley Aldi's or Robbinsdale for groceries.
Without it nearby, Cub can simply raise their prices. They're in a food desert and this closing means less competition for the few options that remain.
I remember when this was a kawalski. I went past this spot 100s of times then, and never even crossed the parking lot because I thought it was for rich folks. When it opened up as something else, i thought the same because I didn't recognize the name. I was just use to Cubs and walmart and, if not those, then the dozen or so corner stores on the north side. I wonder if many others felt the same and this is a reason why this failed.
So what do you do? Hire cops. Reduce crime. Make it easier for businesses to thrive in your community. Crime is the biggest reason businesses can’t survive in Minneapolis, followed by anti-business policies from our socialist city council members. Labor costs are lower in the suburbs. The City Council isn’t as chaotic. When you have a business that is on such thin margins, you can’t survive in a high crime place. Chaotic policies mean no one wants to invest here. Fix that and you will have grocery stores.
It’s honestly insane to me that not one single conservative in the entire country has any idea what socialism actually means. Are you just pretending because your entire ideaology is based on crying and feeling aggrieved? Or are you really just that stupid? Maybe a bit of both?
Socialism actually literally means controlling the means of production in an economy through the government or through worker ownership.
Socialism is not:
- Redistribution of wealth through taxation
- Provision of social insurance like Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, etc (the Welfare State)
- Government provision of public goods like police, fire protection, national defense, roads, parks without walls and fees to get in, etc.
Scandinavian countries are not socialist. They are aggressively capitalist, which they have to be to fund their redistribution of wealth.
Do you want links to the lecture notes too or is this enough?
Hahahah this actually made me laugh out loud I’m not kidding. You’re trying to do some “gotcha” by pasting your AI definition of socialism without realizing that, based on that very definition, there is clearly exactly 0 socialism happening on the Minneapolis city council like you claim in your original comment. So I was right - you have no clue what the fuck you’re talking about. Morons, all of you.
Side point but since you mentioned Nordic countries, one of my favorite dumbass conservative tropes is the following exchange
“Nordic countries have great quality of life in many metrics”
“Yeah well they’re not socialist, they’re actually capitalist”
“Okay, then we should adopt their policies”
“No, that’s socialist!”
American Conservatism is truly an idelaogy for babies. Just totally fucking vapid and meaningless. Zero understanding of the world. Nothing but pure crying
Nooooo this is my grocery store, my heart. I love it there.
Sorry to deliver that news on your Cake Day.
It's my cake day?? Double noooooo
at least your username rocks
You come to me on this day of cake, asking to shut down my grocery store…
This was an Adair Mosley project, the grocery was operated by Pillsbury United Communities. Running a grocery store felt like mission creep for a foundation and it felt like the subsidies they put into were always going to sink them. Maybe the 2.0 plan is being more honest with themselves on what they want to do, though I’m not sure a food incubator is what the community needs.
I used to live close to North Market. It had an awesome community vibe but the prices were really high especially considering its location. It was the closest grocery store to where I lived but I found it much cheaper just to stop at the grocery stores close to my work than going there so it was only for when I needed something last minute.
Probably to make up for all of the shrinkage.
Cub is the same way.
More expensive than Cub
I almost never go to cub, but anytime I do, I'm annoyed by how expensive it is relative to how shitty the store is. It's byerlys prices with k-mart quality and aesthetic.
And Cub has been ridiculous
I really hope the relaunch helps it. It is a great store to have. Love running into students and others there.
North is a food desert because it's an "amenity desert".
What the fuck are we supposed to do? It's a food and amenity desert here. So many of my neighbors don't have reliable transportation or are disabled and can't commute over to Fridley Aldi's or Robbinsdale for groceries.
And that's why they built the C and D lines, so everyone does have reliable transit.
Metro Transit basically has government Uber to help people like that.
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Without it nearby, Cub can simply raise their prices. They're in a food desert and this closing means less competition for the few options that remain.
Yeah...this dude's known for being an unnecessary contrarian. A real try hard. Chronically online. It's quite sad.
Apparently it wasn't expensive enough.
I used to shop there all the time when I lived in The Victory Neighborhood. They had great fried chicken 🍗
I haven't been in Brooklyn center for a while. Did they put anything where Walmart and Target used to be? Why not a Hyvee or Aldis? Or both?
Walmart is an Asian grocery store now, but it's basically the same as Sun Foods down the street and owned by Sun Foods too.
They sell rotten produce at 4x the cost of Aldi. If it were converted to an Aldi it would succeed.
Aldi's literally withdrew their one store from the area on Penn. It's Colonial Market now.
And they said they closed because it was too small, unless they were lying.
Yeah about that
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/s/rhvgZ8sYdB
They said they closed because the location was too small and they needed more space, unless they were lying.
Ugh, this is where I shop. It was already hard when they stopped 50% off produce Wednesdays. 😭
I remember when this was a kawalski. I went past this spot 100s of times then, and never even crossed the parking lot because I thought it was for rich folks. When it opened up as something else, i thought the same because I didn't recognize the name. I was just use to Cubs and walmart and, if not those, then the dozen or so corner stores on the north side. I wonder if many others felt the same and this is a reason why this failed.
So what do you do? Hire cops. Reduce crime. Make it easier for businesses to thrive in your community. Crime is the biggest reason businesses can’t survive in Minneapolis, followed by anti-business policies from our socialist city council members. Labor costs are lower in the suburbs. The City Council isn’t as chaotic. When you have a business that is on such thin margins, you can’t survive in a high crime place. Chaotic policies mean no one wants to invest here. Fix that and you will have grocery stores.
It’s honestly insane to me that not one single conservative in the entire country has any idea what socialism actually means. Are you just pretending because your entire ideaology is based on crying and feeling aggrieved? Or are you really just that stupid? Maybe a bit of both?
Not crying or feeling aggrieved, unlike you.
Socialism actually literally means controlling the means of production in an economy through the government or through worker ownership.
Socialism is not: - Redistribution of wealth through taxation - Provision of social insurance like Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, etc (the Welfare State) - Government provision of public goods like police, fire protection, national defense, roads, parks without walls and fees to get in, etc.
Scandinavian countries are not socialist. They are aggressively capitalist, which they have to be to fund their redistribution of wealth.
Do you want links to the lecture notes too or is this enough?
Hahahah this actually made me laugh out loud I’m not kidding. You’re trying to do some “gotcha” by pasting your AI definition of socialism without realizing that, based on that very definition, there is clearly exactly 0 socialism happening on the Minneapolis city council like you claim in your original comment. So I was right - you have no clue what the fuck you’re talking about. Morons, all of you.
Side point but since you mentioned Nordic countries, one of my favorite dumbass conservative tropes is the following exchange
“Nordic countries have great quality of life in many metrics”
“Yeah well they’re not socialist, they’re actually capitalist”
“Okay, then we should adopt their policies”
“No, that’s socialist!”
American Conservatism is truly an idelaogy for babies. Just totally fucking vapid and meaningless. Zero understanding of the world. Nothing but pure crying