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They tried. Oh, did the media try.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

$25M is enough to rent a couple warehouses in Manhattan where volunteers give food for free to the needy for a whole year. Instead, $25M (plus plenty of free airtime and news stories) was spent telling people how a publicly owned grocery chain selling groceries at wholesale prices is somehow financially impossible.