SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE REQUIRES A CLEANUP ON AISLE FOUR: Government-Run Grocery Store Is Predictably Losing Money. “In Chicago, officials envision a city-owned grocery store as a way to address food deserts in neighborhoods where privately owned stores have closed and moved away. But rather than trying—and inevitably failing—to duplicate those services at the public’s expense, Johnson should instead listen to why the likes of Walmart and Safeway have bailed. ‘Grocery operators have pointed to crime and homelessness as reasons they’ve needed to invest more in security, driving up costs,’ the Chicago Sun-Times reported earlier this year.”