For a few years I’ve wondered how possible it would be for large neighborhood associations to own a neighborhood grocery store.
I haven’t bothered yet to run the numbers, but I would expect if the association was large enough it wouldn’t add much cost.
Residents could get a substantial discount while non-residents could pay normal prices. Residents could put in subscription style orders for things they would always regularly need. It would make it easier to order specialty things that normal groceries stores wouldn’t carry, etc...
The problem here is that eventually rent-seeking becomes appealing, someone realizes there's skim/margin/"arbitrage" to be made, and so the capitalism progresses.
I haven’t bothered yet to run the numbers, but I would expect if the association was large enough it wouldn’t add much cost.
Residents could get a substantial discount while non-residents could pay normal prices. Residents could put in subscription style orders for things they would always regularly need. It would make it easier to order specialty things that normal groceries stores wouldn’t carry, etc...