MILWAUKEE, WI – Citizens for Free Enterprise (CFFE) released the following statement in response to the Milwaukee Common Council voting to add new, costly burdens to grocery stores operating within the city:
“The Milwaukee Common Council’s vote to add new restrictions on grocery store operations is a direct assault on our free market that’s helped America build the most secure food chain in the world,” said Citizens for Free Enterprise Wisconsin State Director Amy Loudenbeck. “Utilizing activist terms like ‘food apartheid’ and creating more regulations and red tape for businesses does nothing to attract or retain Milwaukee grocery stores. The Common Council should focus on ways to improve access and public safety so residents can shop where they live and grocers don’t have to increase prices to cover their losses due to retail theft.”
The recent vote by the Milwaukee Common Council follows on the heels of an announcement by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, that the city would start building government-run grocery stores.
CFFE broadly opposes expanded government intervention in the grocery industry out of concerns that it would distort the market and ultimately increase costs, limit availability, and erode the reliability of America’s food supply chain.
