Droves of Poor Hungry are exiting Kansas City, at height of prosperity

Where will they find food now?

City‑Owned KC Grocery Store Shuts Down Amid Rising Crime, Costs

While this is a local issue. This also was a headline on Fox News https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/city-owned-missouri-grocery-store-closes-mamdani-campaigns-some-new-york?, exposing plans of Mamdami to be unsustainable.

City-Owned Grocery Stores will not solve New York's problems. In Kansas City it made things worse.

Despite city investments, the grocery store struggled to stay afloat. Shoppers and employees alike reported safety concerns, including fights, drug use and public sex. Teenage grocery shelf stockers were forced to carry tasers. “My staff is in jeopardy every single day,” CBKC CEO Emmet Pierson Jr. said in a city meeting last year. “I’ve been saying this now for a year. For a year.” Sun Fresh lost $1.3 million in 2023. Photos and videos of its bare shelves were widely circulated on the internet in recent months and even in The Washington Post. We are not placing big orders,” Pierson told The Star in April. “The store is placing orders to fulfill our WIC requirements.” WIC is a federal food assistance program for low-income pregnant women and children under the age of 5.

Droves of Poor Hungry are exiting Kansas City, at height of prosperity

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