by Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he wants the Big Apple to have government owned grocery stores.
This idea has been tried before and it failed miserably. Anyone who knows history remembers the images of bare shelves in government owned grocery stores in the former Soviet Union.
Mamdani recently shared a survey on Twitter/X showing that New Yorkers support his idea.
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NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.
“The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military.”
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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 4, 2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also pushed this terrible idea.
From City Journal:
One of his more curious proposals, about which he is buoyant, is to open city-owned and city-managed grocery stores. His campaign literature explains that these municipal stores will be “focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit. Without having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers. They will buy and sell at wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and partner with local neighborhoods on products and sourcing.”
In a recent interview, Mamdani said that he wants to establish “a pilot program of one store in each borough that builds on the feasibility study that was done in Chicago.” Indeed, in 2023, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson did propose opening such grocery stores, in response to the closing of many supermarkets in poor areas of the city, and he did commission a feasibility study to examine the question. That study has not been made public, however, and Mayor Johnson has backed off his plan, even though the state of Illinois established a “Grocery Initiative” to provide municipalities with up to $2.4 million to open grocery stores. Chicago has not applied for any of this money.
There are so many ways this could go badly.
How will a $30 min wage help keep prices down? Or will folks be expected to work the cash registers for free?
— Betsy’76 (@LadyAmPatriot) April 4, 2025
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