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You sound confused. Go read a book or ten, then get back with us.
Black Owned Grocery Store needs help staying Open
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You sound confused. Go read a book or ten, then get back with us.
Exactly. Its sounds like this woman can't run her business properly. Perhaps she should sell it to someone one more capable.
It's not running a business. It's the neighborhood, density, and disposable income. The choice to put something healthy there barely makes sense economically, much less is it lucrative. That's why there are food deserts where this guy built - no big time retailer was willing. In a sense the owner holds profit secondary to providing something the community needs even if they can't support it. He's philanthropic. We are so far behind due to history and institutional shyt we can't compete from a purely economic standpoint due to economies of scale and barriers to entry. Wal Mart is always going to be cheaper with more variety. Therefore we need to support our own in the same philanthropic sense the owner held when he located his store where he did. It's counterintuitive, but as a people we can't afford to think only in terms of saving dough. Really to get ahead we need to get in on the tech sector and innovation. Ideas are being monetized with very little overhead but our schools aren't adequate and never will be. Will take parental initiative but also money and access, two things lacking. Would like to see some tech savvy brehs with some non profits in the neighborhood prepping the youth for 21st century opportunities.
Trajan
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Breh..some AA posters made this point (@K.O.N.Y ) I have to say, it makes sense.
Who in Africa uses black as a primary identity?
It's an American thing. To differentiate Black Americans from White Americans. ''Black power'', ''Black Panthers'' etc....all that shyt is American in origin.
But anyway, this is not the thread for that debate.
Yeah im aware...
Plus I shop at the markets...most are white and hipster tho.
Its not hard to grow shyt here... plus madd open land and vegetation compared to most big cities. Id get more involved if I knew anything about this.
Nigerianwonder
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Sounds like they should be running a charity then. Understanding and catering to the demographics of a neighborhood is business 101. Sounds like they made some bad business decisions and a had a poor business plan. And only a fool would give his money away to a for profit company anyway. You cant even write that off on your taxes.
Citi Trends
aka milobased
thread is a great example of one of the reasons we haven't made one inch of progress
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
I donate to black causes I feel are worthy, and this is one of them. I donate to movies, schools, and organizations I believe in. The money I gave to these cats I would have spent more on a bottle of scotch or a night drinking or some weed.
Plus I'm gonna patronize the store exclusively from now on. In Atlanta we have 0 black owned grocery stores. ZERO. So I'm gonna go out of my way, even if it costs extra. At the very least it might convince someone else to come along and open a 2nd store with a better business plan.
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
fukk that, thats why their ass is out of business now...and Im supposed to support bad management like thatThey will be broke again in 6 months
Its cool breh..we know you would rather drop roses on ugly backpage prostitutes
Not really, you missed the part where I emphasize black people will never have shyt unless we make moral decisions about our purchases. We don't have economies of scale. Whites and even immigrants have hundreds of years in head starts. Capitalism just snow balls. We can't afford to be pure capitalists we will never have anything.
That's that confusion black people have. Want to embrace unadulterated ideas that can't possibly benefit us, then complain about the outcomes. How's that free market working for us anyway?
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
It's pretty irrelevant to me personally (stupid argument IMO). If you're of African descent, you're my people. You can call yourself black, African, African American, moor, or anything else as far as I'm concerned
I never fukked a prostitute tho
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
that's an issue because the area they are in is the one that needs a place like this the most, but they can't afford to shop there. it's a crazy cycle. how do we fix it
We as men gotta get serious about the shyt we feel is important. Save up our money and go into business providing goods and services that our people need. Eventually I wanna open a supermarket and a gas station specifically because there's so few of them that are black owned in Atlanta and it's a basic commodity we all need.
My goal has always been to use economics as a form of activism. Open businesses, have my product come from black manufacturers, put money into educating black people on opening businesses and the importance of spending money in your own community, and try to dominate whatever city we live in.
Our generation loves to blame the civil rights era for not doing enough to pass shyt down to the next generation. Well them civil rights cats is pretty much all dead or mad old, so it's our turn to build something to pass down. If we wanna fix the shyt we see wrong with the black community, then we as men are gonna have to fix it.
I'm seeing more of our women trying to get their hustle on than i see men, and we gotta address that shyt among ourselves.
Black Americans are not in the northeast like that. Anywhere from Delaware southwards is where you see black AAs in large numbers.
y'all are really this stupid huh?
there is a major difference in terms of if both were to open up a grocery store..
K.O.N.Y
Superstar
nyc has the biggest city AA population. And there are plenty AA stores in harlem