The Boston City Council is considering opening publicly-owned grocery stores to address food insecurity — but not everyone’s convinced it’s the right solution.

After a majority of the council showed support for a hearing order about publicly-owned grocery stores on Oct. 8, we asked readers if they thought the city should do this.

Despite a majority of the council body showing support for a hearing order on publicly-owned grocery stores, readers were less than thrilled at the idea.

“There is no way that city government could efficiently run a grocery store at the kind of scale that’s being discussed,” reader TF in Boston wrote. “The grocery business is incredibly difficult – the money would be better spent in partnership with an existing grocery operator.” An anonymous reader simpl

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