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Military Commissaries Cited as Working Public Grocery Option

Original: VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries

The Institute for Policy Studies is highlighting military commissaries as an existing, successful example of a publicly run grocery option in the United States. The group points to the commissary system, which sells discounted groceries to service members and their families, as a model that could inform debates over public grocery stores in cities weighing government-run food retail.

Why now: Debates over publicly owned grocery stores in US cities are renewing interest in the commissary system as a working precedent.

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• VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries · Institute for Policy Studies

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