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A few more screen grabs showing the roads that supply the convenience/general store shown in the earlier post.
Various commenters on the earlier post suggested that the photos of the store near Kansas City were cherry-picked to make it look worse than it really was. I agree...but when was the last time you were in a Krogers, Walmart, Meijers or IGA and you saw so many empty shelves, especially in the high revenue-per-square-foot produce and meat sections? Maybe during the depths of Covid shutdowns but other than that, never.
If a store in B.F. Pakistan can look THAT well stocked while the store in Missouri which is 1.4 miles from Exit 5-A off of I-70 looks that bad, especially after the taxpayers sank $29 million of subsidies into it... I just have to shake my head in dismay.
Another commenter asked "...which regulations would you like to see peeled back and why?" Frankly, I would like to see all regulations wiped off the books and replaced with regulations which in their totality can be read-and-understood by a person with 5th-grade reading ability in fifteen minutes.
My reasoning is that the majority of the people working on the grocery store floor are not college graduates...They are not MBAs nor do they have degrees in Biology. Sadly, the median American now has a sixth-grade reading ability. Most of the people working on the floor of the grocery store probably have lower reading comprehension skills than the median American. Having grown up watching Pee-Wee Herman, they also have stunted attention spans. So why would you write regulations that THEY cannot understand when they are the heavy-lifters where the work gets done?
Another perspective is that Communists have multiple, highly divergent personalities. One minute they are crying a river-of-tears about wealth inequity and food deserts. The next minute they are writing another two-hundred pages of regulations that pretty much guarantee that new, family owned grocery stores die in utero because they cannot afford a "legal compliance office" to create documentation showing that they complied with every detail.
Existing businesses love regulatory moats. It reduces competitive pressures.
OK, I can see some of my readers swooning. "It can't be done!!! Food safety is complicated!!!! The regulations are complicated because it is a complicated subject."
Food safety is actually pretty simple until you start trying to carve out every exception and technical oddity. I agree that expressing complex ideas with simple, declarative sentences using the 12,000 most commonly used words in the English language can be difficult. BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. Just because you cannot do it doesn't mean that it cannot be done.
I agree with you 100% Joe. ---ken
ReplyDeleteI agree on regulations! The main grocery store in Glennallen Alaska is an IGA. I would say that they look more like your Pakistan pictures than the others. I see it mostly after church on Sunday and sometimes the meat counter is a little sparse and there might not be many doughnuts left but will probably will be fully stocked Monday. This is a store almost 200 miles from the resupply source on a two lane road that has weather issues etc. The nonperishable shelves are usually full. Keep the government out of running stores!
ReplyDeleteAn important point you make is the common mans ability to read and understand the laws and regulations. It says something about your lawmakers when they deliberately use confusing language and terms subject to 'interpretation'...
ReplyDeleteSaid another way, you should be able to tell you're being played.
The use of language NOT in common use is a marxist attempt at creating a political class. First they say you need them to write your laws, because you're not smart enough. Then you need them to interpret your laws, because you're not smart enough.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Been there, done that. They're trying again. Root + branch this time, please.