Nearly a decade ago, Kansas City spent $17 million to buy and fix up the moribund Linwood Shopping Center on busy Prospect Avenue. KC Sun Fresh opened in 2018 with a salad bar, fresh shrimp on ice and flower bouquets. “We were thrilled,” Taylor recalled.
The store was first run by a private grocer; Pierson’s nonprofit took over in 2022. Sales were okay at first, but after the pandemic, crime rose and sales began to plummet. Police data show assaults, robberies and shoplifting in the immediate vicinity have been on an upward trend since 2020. Shoplifting cases have nearly tripled.
It’s like they can’t figure out why businesses couldn’t run there before the government attempted to intervene…
Good news, they closed the jail and stopped arresting people for "minor" crimes, that will solve it.
Young, the patrol division’s commander, links the rise in crime to fallout from the pandemic, rising inflation and a shortage of police officers following racial injustice protests in 2020.
Part of the problem is the city’s lack of a jail, Young said. The left-leaning council closed the previous facility in 2009 as a cost-saving measure — a move the Kansas City Star has called a “$250 million mistake” — and so people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in rural counties miles away.
That allows them to hop on the local bus system — free since the pandemic — and head back to the same location, Young said.
But apparently it's Trump's fault for stopping the USDA from giving subsidized food to people who hate the actually tax-positive population who pays for that food. I look forward to the next, dwindling generation of white kids being forced to pay even more to support the even less productive, explosively growing population of black kids. Maybe we should import even more, just make sure to crush the white standard of living to support people who hate them.
After a dozen years, they were anticipating a banner 2025, Rauch recounted. Then the Trump administration slashed federal programs that aided nutrition assistance. Both the stores and their philanthropic partners were hit hard.
“We ran out of money,” he said. “The current freezing of funds at the USDA had a very chilling effect.”
KCMO is a known joke around the area, I have plenty of friends who live on the MO side of KC, and whatever the fuck the county is has DAs that just let blacks go free despite committing felonies. Apparently the KC side arrests people, which is why the crime rate is concentrated in a specific area.
Downtown KC (which is on the MO side) is actually pretty clean and safe as far as big cities go. But the second you get away from downtown or the other tourist areas (Power and Light District, Country Club Plaza, the stadiums, the zoo, and Worlds/Oceans of Fun), it can get pretty hairy. And do not go to Independence or Raytown if you can help it, as that is where the bulk of the worst things are. Although looking at where this store is in relation to the local area, it is actually not a terrible part of town, so it is entirely possible people are deliberately targeting that store in particular.
KCK is where all of the rich people live and where all of the major corporate HQ's are. In a fashion that will sound all too typical, even though they are typically left-leaning (Johnson County, KS is the second most left wing behind Douglas County, where Lawrence is) they are extremely aggressive with law enforcement, cleanliness ordnances, and the other usual's. Meanwhile, the other half of KCK in Wyandotte County is actually more working class/middle class and so gets the same aggressive enforcement but because they actually believe in it instead of NIMBY-ism from AWFL's.
The Trump cutting USDA funding quip was totally ideological.
The same article with the Rauch founder closing all 5 of his Boston-area low-cost stores claims 3/4 of his revenue was coming from actual sales, the rest from "private funding & public grants".
Less than 25% of your revenue was coming from the public trough
Why is a grocery store receiving federal funding for overhead in the first place?
Further down in the article, it is mentioned that the gov KC grocery location has already had 29 million sunk into it, yet still has no operating funds and can't pay its suppliers.
Also telling that despite one example of the store being out of fresh tomatoes, the rest of the examples of shortages were old black women bitching about the lack of selection of potato & tortilla chips.
Actual government subsidized grocery stores have never been tried? Food deserts are social constructs, not economic ones? Poverty causes crime? Racism?
But the store, in a city-owned strip mall, is on the verge of closure. Customers say they are increasingly afraid to shop there — even with visible police patrols — because of drug dealing, theft and vagrancy both inside and outside the store and the public library across the street.
Advocates like Taylor have accused the city of neglecting the property. Discussions about fixing a fence behind the store dragged on for months until it was repaired in early July, and the city just remedied the sewer stench that Taylor and others say has pervaded the store for weeks.
In May, after the city was slow to turn over the $750,000 in promised assistance to the store, residents from the racially mixed neighborhood stormed a council meeting waving signs that read, “I need access to fresh food!” and “Cut the check!” Gwendolyn Grant, president and chief executive of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, called on Mayor Quinton Lucas to “stop lying,” and “get the job done.”
So what is making the store fail is being located in a bad neighborhood and the Kansas City government neglecting it. Basically black ghetto people + being sabotaged by the government is why it's failing. That would cause ANYTHING to fail.
Food Control is always Communistic, and it's purpose is to kill dissidents with famine.
These Leftists are just too passive to use it as a weapon, as food control is intended, so they just let it rot so that the people running it can probably get kickbacks.
It’s like they can’t figure out why businesses couldn’t run there before the government attempted to intervene…
Good news, they closed the jail and stopped arresting people for "minor" crimes, that will solve it.
But apparently it's Trump's fault for stopping the USDA from giving subsidized food to people who hate the actually tax-positive population who pays for that food. I look forward to the next, dwindling generation of white kids being forced to pay even more to support the even less productive, explosively growing population of black kids. Maybe we should import even more, just make sure to crush the white standard of living to support people who hate them.
KCMO is a known joke around the area, I have plenty of friends who live on the MO side of KC, and whatever the fuck the county is has DAs that just let blacks go free despite committing felonies. Apparently the KC side arrests people, which is why the crime rate is concentrated in a specific area.
Speaking as someone from the area:
Downtown KC (which is on the MO side) is actually pretty clean and safe as far as big cities go. But the second you get away from downtown or the other tourist areas (Power and Light District, Country Club Plaza, the stadiums, the zoo, and Worlds/Oceans of Fun), it can get pretty hairy. And do not go to Independence or Raytown if you can help it, as that is where the bulk of the worst things are. Although looking at where this store is in relation to the local area, it is actually not a terrible part of town, so it is entirely possible people are deliberately targeting that store in particular.
KCK is where all of the rich people live and where all of the major corporate HQ's are. In a fashion that will sound all too typical, even though they are typically left-leaning (Johnson County, KS is the second most left wing behind Douglas County, where Lawrence is) they are extremely aggressive with law enforcement, cleanliness ordnances, and the other usual's. Meanwhile, the other half of KCK in Wyandotte County is actually more working class/middle class and so gets the same aggressive enforcement but because they actually believe in it instead of NIMBY-ism from AWFL's.
The Trump cutting USDA funding quip was totally ideological.
The same article with the Rauch founder closing all 5 of his Boston-area low-cost stores claims 3/4 of his revenue was coming from actual sales, the rest from "private funding & public grants".
Further down in the article, it is mentioned that the gov KC grocery location has already had 29 million sunk into it, yet still has no operating funds and can't pay its suppliers.
Basic government enterprise
Also telling that despite one example of the store being out of fresh tomatoes, the rest of the examples of shortages were old black women bitching about the lack of selection of potato & tortilla chips.
Actual government subsidized grocery stores have never been tried? Food deserts are social constructs, not economic ones? Poverty causes crime? Racism?
Blacks.
Communists.
Crimers?
"Crimers might be out here", he thought. "I hate Crimers."
Oh yeah, black marxists are pretty fuckin' stupid though. Just check out South Africa lololololol
Or Black Hammer.
Communism fails again.
This has nothing to do with Communism.
So what is making the store fail is being located in a bad neighborhood and the Kansas City government neglecting it. Basically black ghetto people + being sabotaged by the government is why it's failing. That would cause ANYTHING to fail.
Food Control is always Communistic, and it's purpose is to kill dissidents with famine.
These Leftists are just too passive to use it as a weapon, as food control is intended, so they just let it rot so that the people running it can probably get kickbacks.
During the plandemic, they were gleefully yammering about banning 'grocery shopping' for the unvaxxed.
Yup. Emphasis on Control in Food Control.
The people who thought that was a good idea are closer to communisim than any other ideology.
Food lines outside an empty, government-ran grocery store is peak communism.
A black woman wearing a mask grocery shopping at the gov grocery store in '25 in a stock photo.
An entire black panel at the public meeting as the store's board of directors.
LMAO the article is one long "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt..."