Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create city-run grocery stores to help New Yorkers struggling with the cost of living is being challenged in court by supermarkets, who say they won’t be able to compete with the stores’ low prices.
The New York City mayor plans to create five municipally owned stores on city-owned property by 2029 that will offer a 30% discount on goods like meat, dairy, and fruit and vegetables.
The lawsuit – led by the National Supermarket Association and supported by other groups and private stores – says Mamdani’s policy would create an unfair business environment. It also alleges that the administration failed to conduct a “serious analysis” of how local business would be impacted by the move.
Grocery stores should be more invested in stopping the gouging from their suppliers then. The farmers are getting shafted, the consumer is getting shafted, the Grocery store is doing fine and the middlemen are laughing to the bank. There are only 4 meatpackers nationwide, Driscoll is nearly all you can find for berries.
you mean the same supplies that the grocery stores own… they created all this shit.
let them rot, fuck em
Until the next round of bailouts, at least. Though I’m not sure this one will come in time.