Communist Grocery Stores vs Capitalist Stores

In this short video a former Soviet citizen compares a U.S grocery store he visited with the ones in the Soviet Union.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pgS4RWGWr8A?si=PLtx_C1Rd1ssWkIE

 

This breaks down the problems with communist grocery stores.

"Capitalist grocery stores have historically worked better than communist stores due to fundamental differences in how the two systems allocate resources and incentivize production. Market-based systems rely on supply and demand, competition, and the profit motive to stock shelves and offer choice, while centrally planned communist systems have struggled with inefficiency and persistent shortages."

 

Oh you mean like China?

Yeah I hear they're running out of electric cars and solar panels. They don't have enough cities empty of people either. Real shortage I hear. (Result of them trying too hard to be Capitalist)

They're so inefficient, everything they make costs so much more. We can make everything much cheaper here.

Continue on with the b.s. We find it so entertaining.

 

^^^

Keep in mind that the China you see today isn't the Communist country of Mao Zedong. China has adopted what they call "State Run Capitalism". So the better production results are likely tied to the capitalism China as adopted.


"In less than fifty years, China has risen from a poor agrarian society to the second-largest economy and a global superpower. China reached this level of economic prosperity because of its liberalization into a free market economy under Deng Xiaoping during the Chinese economic reform starting in 1976."

"The Chinese economic reform divided political ideology from economic practice and created what is known as state capitalism. China’s economic model has deviated from socialism because of foreign trade and the privatization of business and property."

China’s Model of State Capitalism — WBR

 

The Indian Coffee House is a restaurant brand in India which reflects its economic policy of a holistic synthesis between capitalism and socialism.

The Indian Coffee House (ICH) cooperative movement began in the late 1950s when the government closed down its India Coffee Houses, leading to widespread unemployment among workers. Indian leader A.K. Gopalan organized these dismissed employees to form worker cooperatives, transforming the chain into the worker-owned Indian Coffee House network.

Today, ICH operates as a collection of worker cooperatives across India, with employees as shareholders, providing jobs and maintaining a socialist legacy through its unique cooperative model, which offers workers a sense of ownership, pride, and various benefits like insurance and provident funds.

Since the workers themselves are capitalist owners of the brand, they are highly motivated and disciplined in their work ethics so as to ensure high output, and the brand has become a major success story of collective entrepreneurship in India.

The profits thus go to all the workers and not to any single owner's pocket or bank account in particular.

 

China yields control over every damn business in the country. Apparently that's what Trump is trying to do, demanding control and money from:
US Steel
Intel
Tik Tok
The Media
Ending Free Speech for those who oppose Trump

This is pure fascism. Just like China is now.
That's what Communism/Capitalism evolves into if you let it. You wanna call it something else, like State Run Capitalism. Still fascist, not capitalist.

Educated Chinese students were trying to stop that. Then Tienaman Square happened.

The US will soon have it's version of Tienaman Square/Crystalnacht courtesy of Trump and his brown shirts. Then the real crackdown will begin.

I can't believe Trump is trying to launch this planned crackdown because Jimmy Kimmel said something Trump didn't like.

That won't work as you can see. He needs a much bigger pretext, like the Charlie Kirk killing. So they tried that too.

America's Reichstad is still standing, so they haven't figured out yet which scenario would succeed, allowing for martial law, suspending elections etc. They still have 3 years...

 

ATLANTA—When the Azalea Fresh Market opened this summer, it became the only supermarket to operate in this city’s downtown in two decades. To make that happen, the city contributed $8 million in cash, grants and loans.

Now, this 20,000-square-foot store is the beginning of what officials hope will be more publicly funded, but privately run supermarkets to come. The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years. With the same funding, the city is already aiding the construction of a second planned store 6 miles away, expected to open next year.

Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food. City officials said the partnership was necessary because large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods.

“That totally burned me up,” said Andre Dickens, Atlanta’s mayor. “And I was like, screw it. We’re gonna do it ourselves.”

Atlanta joins a growing number of cities testing publicly funded options for affordable fresh food, in areas where businesses are put off by the risks.

In New York City, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned on starting government-backed grocery stores. He aims to beat the chains on price, he has said, by allowing stores to operate free of rent and property taxes at city-owned sites.

Madison, Wis., is slated to soon begin construction on a publicly owned supermarket. Other towns across the U.S. have experimented with similar stores with varying levels of success.

Publicly funded and government-run grocery stores haven’t always succeeded. A city-funded grocery store in Kansas City, Mo., closed recently after 10 years and $18 million in public investment, with its nonprofit operators citing crime and a dwindling number of customers.

Atlanta officials think that with for-profit supermarket management they can avoid the failures of some other government grocery experiments.

Savi Provisions, the city’s private-sector partner, runs a chain of high-end small stores with organic foods. It has joined a wholesale network that Savi says allows it to buy more groceries in bulk than small grocers typically can, so it can offer lower prices on staples like milk and eggs.

Products at the new store should be less—or at least no more—expensive than at the chain stores, city officials say. It offers a familiar array of fresh produce, baked goods, two-for-one deals and signs promoting “Everyday Essentials, Priced Right!”

Any profit lost from cheaper staples is partly made up upstairs, where there is a sandwich and sushi counter, and wine and beer sold at typical prices.

In this way the store operates like most supermarkets, with higher-margin items making up for others sold closer to cost. Savi said it typically takes a new grocery store up to three years to turn a profit. The subsidy from the city will help fund its operating costs in the meantime.
Sales are rising since the store first opened in September, according to the operators, and produce makes up a greater share of sales than at the average supermarket.

The store doesn’t have everything found at other supermarkets. There isn’t a seafood counter, and a small “Georgia Grown” section offered mostly potatoes, onions and peanuts, though it will carry more items in the summer months.
Foot traffic was light but steady on a recent weekday morning, with a mix of students and office workers zipping in and back out a few minutes later. Most grabbed small handfuls of items, such as prepared foods to go and drinks. Upbeat hip-hop played on the overhead speakers. A security guard kept watch for attempted thefts.

The first Azalea location already has its fans. Angela Christie, who works down the block at Georgia State University, grabbed a few items while on break on a recent morning. At 99 cents, a bunch of scallions was cheaper than at the supermarket she would typically drive to from her home, she said.
Jereme Sharpe, who lives downtown, said he drops in a few times a week. “I was skeptical, even just thinking that they were gonna have super high prices,” Sharpe said. “But no, they’re right on par.”

The second store, going up in a section of Southwest Atlanta where roughly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line, could be more of a challenge. There, on the edge of a rundown strip center, the city is leasing space where a previous grocer went out of business.

When Atlanta officials began surveying the area, they could scarcely find a store that sold any fresh food other than the occasional banana.

“There may not be enough disposable income in Southwest Atlanta, but people are hungry and they’re spending money and they’re eating,” said Eloisa Klementich, chief executive of Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development agency.

Savi, which is subleasing the Southwest Atlanta space from the city, is building out the 16,000 square feet into a supermarket. The store will have more affordable, lower-tier label items than the downtown location.

Mike Fogarty, Savi’s chief operating officer, said it would take time to find the right mix of inventory and pricing to meet shoppers’ needs.

“We’ll go where the data tells us,” he said.

Write to Will Parker at will.parker@wsj.com