• Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    If you’re inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:

    These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn’t possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.

    (Not saying I agree.)

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Being government-run, the store will obviously have:

      • a poor selection of products leaving you with no choice
      • ugly packaging meaning only the poors will go there
      • long waiting lists for entry
      • yearly, quarterly and monthly subscriptions, all required and renewed seperately, taking hours in a queue and three trips to the social services hq each to renew
      • quotas on all items, groups of items and time limited - whenever one is passed the rest don’t matter
      • no added value like delivery or good customer service
      • no market research or innovation
      • no incentive to do better or improve service
      • an active loss of money due to bueraucratic ineficiencies

      (Likewise, also spined it (almost) as much as possible.)