If they do it correctly, nobody’s subsidizing anything. The store pays its own costs from the money it makes from its customers. No tax dollars needed.
This isn’t socialism, it’s just municipal ownership of needed services – an idea promoted by progressive reformers starting in the 1910s-20s. Like municipal utilities and transit systems and roadways and fire services and trash pickup.
And this is only the government filling a need left unserved by private providers, not a monopoly operating from a belief that only the govt. should provide grocery stores.
It’s not even remotely “socialism.”
