Public grocery store

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Public grocery stores are grocery stores that are operated for the benefit of the general public rather than solely for profit, typically by a local or national government. Public stores may be operated by governments in order to increase price competitiveness in areas lacking access to food, to sell groceries at prices less than the market rate by subsidization (for example targeted at low-income neighborhoods), or as a result of policy to restrict private enterprise. While the term "public grocery store" is most commonly used to mean government-run grocery stores, cooperatives, non-profits, and public-private partnerships are also sometimes referred to as public grocery stores. Government-owned grocery stores may be nationalized, tribally owned, municipality-owned, or owned by other sub-national jurisdictions. State-owned grocery stores have been common in current and historic communist and socialist states, but are also found in states with predominantly capitalist or mixed-market economies...

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