New York plans them, maybe save time as you need just go to one place for all your food needs, no need look for lower price, save time. Maybe one brand of basic items saves waste as no need to do adversting.
Taiwan does good job with public uni’s, so why not basics like food.
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We just need to get ALDI and LIDL here they can take care of the rest. Make it easier for foreign companies to operate, will never happen though.
Would they sell macaroni and cheese, Timbits and maple syrup? 
Taiwan’s government-run healthcare system works better than America’s privately run healthcare system so government-run markets could too, particularly since they won’t have to pay rent or property taxes.
Taiwanese don’t buy foods at supermarkets, it’s going to be traditional markets. If they did anything like this it would be to set up government run stalls at traditional markets.
I was just about to say the same thing.
No need for non-profit, just more competition with better for-profit businesses.
I love Aldi. My washing machine, TV, dryer, coffee machine, electric hot pot and most of our food is from Aldi
They have them in China now right? So its not too far fetched.
If you read the history of Pxmart, it was kind of like this (although limited to government workers and military) - PX Mart - Wikipedia
I thought px mart was free mason…
But seriously px mart is incredibly expensive compared to other places, especially traditional market.
Every time I go to a Supermarket, I see loads of Taiwanese people buying food. Are all of these people looking Taiwanese and speaking Taiwanese Hokkien and Taiwanese Mandarin with Taiwanese accents just foreigners in disguise?
Yes, I think Taiwan’s gov will do it good. In Europe, hypermarket are much less than the ones here with higher wages, did not get why
The law of unintended consequences usually comes into play with these kind of ideas.
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Similar will happen with buying up private housing.
The two big strikes against the idea working in New York City are its corrupt, bloated bureaucracy and its corrupt, bloated unions. They could more than nullify the advantages of no rent and no property taxes.
I was thinking more along the lines of these cheap hyper markets putting other grocery stores out of business (although he claims this somehow isn’t going to happen), leading to food shortages, lines of people outside the 5 hyper markets reminiscent of the Soviet Union, and lots of grocery workers losing their jobs.
Buying up private property to help house people who can’t afford property will lead to a massive increase in property prices. Causing more people to be unable to buy property. Rents will also increase.
One closed because of high crime, not an issue in most areas of Taiwan, maybe only Taoyuan and Taipei-wanhua is high crime.
While we certainly don’t have “non profit hyper marts” as per the thread title, we certainly do have large public markets where I am pretty certain the management and tenants are NOT paying market prices (i.e. they are government subsidized) and they sell food. So don’t we kind of already have this?
If I am right, it’s nice to see NY following our lead. 
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Any of the UK/IE/Euro marts would be better, but like Tesco fail so maybe the new York idea
Except…Carrefour.
Aldi is going well in China would be good to see them here.
As mentioned Taiwan has traditional markets that can help keep costs down for some foods.
And have no probs with taking advantage of that. Not defending NY by any means, but there is a reason why people unionized there.