Stripping affordability from criticism of capitalism and inequality is how centrists will try and steal fire from left populists, and flatten the clear differences between candidates. In the process, they render political discourse meaningless.

The benefits of a city or state owned grocery store are that they are not for profit, and could be priced based on cost, and operating expenses, which would pass on savings to the consumer. This system has the staggering ability to combat price gouging at privately owned grocery stores that some have dubbed “greedflation.”