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    Stadträte von Toronto genehmigen Pilotprojekt für städtische Lebensmittelgeschäfte

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    2. Creativator on

      Is this the new name for a municipal market or will it try to be a cheaper Dollarama?

    3. uselesspoliticalhack on

      This hopefully will be an instructive lesson on the ills of socialism for many Toronto residents.

      This may be one of the dumbest projects the city has undertaken and will fail.

    6. Red57872 on

      …and now we’ll see why these areas didn’t have grocery stores to begin with…

    7. the_sound_of_a_cork on

      A lot of young Canadians are about to get a taste of reality for their academic view of the real world. Socialism is just awful.

    8. Mindless_Engine_4494 on

      See to me this will be highly subsidized. Cause clerks stocking shelves at a grocery store make minimum wage. But city workers do not make minimum wage.

    11. Icy_Lawfulness_2699 on

      Can you imagine Brad, John or Doug do something like this?

      Haha they will work with the oligopoly probably and come out says „I will stop price gouging, it is ridiculous and do nothing“

    13. mattcass on

      We have government liquor stores and cannabis stores, might as well have government grocery stores.

    15. broadviewstation on

      Knowing Torornto mayor and city council this is be an expensive over hyped failure and if you call it out they will threaten to sue you or just call you names.

    16. throwitawaytothesea on

      Grocery retail is already low-margin business and it sounds like, even with the property tax break, this is being mandated to operate a lot a loss. The money could be used for better purposes that would actually feed hungry people (community center and school food meals for example).

    17. trevorjanderson777 on

      Certainly worth a try. Kudos to Toronto for trying something to help with the skyrocketing cost of groceries.

    18. Chadbrams on

      How much government salary is being allocated to this in conjunction with an obviously smaller to no profit margin? Im not sure how they think this could work, will be interesting to see the results though.

      A normal grocery stores markup on goods would include the operational costs of each respective store, so im not sure how they will cover the cost of the government employees managing and operating the store. Higher taxes?

    20. External-Pace-1822 on

      You need scale to compete in this industry. I hope this works but smart money is on this being a wasted attempt. The province should try running this out in several cities at once and then maybe they would have some buying power etc. Groceries are very thin margin businesses.

    21. Edeges123 on

      Anyone else remember when the government tried to control gas prices and came up with Petro Can? How did that turn out?

    22. green_link on

      In before Drug Ford gets his bribe from Galen Weston and notwithstanding clauses this project. Can’t be having affordable food options in „the only city in Ontario“

    23. onexplored on

      What’s the point of this, this would be obviously wasting money on low quality. Why not find a way to encourage more competitions instead. It’s just like healthcare; we spend tons of tax money, and the healthcare only gets worse every year

    25. alcoholicplankton69 on

      My concern is economy of scale how toronto will be able to leverage food at a reasonable price.

      I suspect this will come a money pit that will need to be off set by increasing property taxes.

      Personally i think we need less government intervention not more.

      I guess it comes down to what you think government is for. Honestly i would support a monthly cash card for lower income toronto residents than a city run store that anyone can use

      Question to those Canadians who lived in the former Soviet union how well did state run store do…

    26. Gankdatnoob on

      Hell yeah! This is so desperately needed. BTW it’s not free food! I saw this a lot in the right wing echo chamber when Mamdani proposed it. They tried to say Mamdani was giving away food. It’s a store and food is sold for money there!

    27. Dxres on

      A step in the right direction. Now watch Loblaws throw money at politicians to kill it.

      I can’t wait for the day billionaires are nothing more than fertilizer.

    29. okiedokie2468 on

      Good on Toronto! Great to see a truly progressive social experiment in a major Canadian city. Wishing them all the best!!

    32. Chevettez06 on

      I am very interested to see how this plays out. I like the idea. If its run properly, this would be a win.

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