New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he desires the Massive Apple to have authorities owned grocery shops.
This concept has been tried earlier than and it failed miserably. Anybody who is aware of historical past remembers the photographs of naked cabinets in authorities owned grocery shops within the former Soviet Union.
Mamdani lately shared a survey on Twitter/X exhibiting that New Yorkers assist his thought.
NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters assist creating municipal grocery shops to carry down costs.
“The idea is imminently possible. The truth is, publicly owned grocery shops are fairly frequent and exist already at scale—within the US army.”
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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 4, 2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson additionally pushed this horrible thought.
From City Journal:
Certainly one of his extra curious proposals, about which he’s buoyant, is to open city-owned and city-managed grocery shops. His marketing campaign literature explains that these municipal shops will probably be “centered on maintaining costs low, not making a revenue. With out having to pay hire or property taxes, they’ll scale back overhead and move on financial savings to customers. They may purchase and promote at wholesale costs, centralize warehousing and distribution, and associate with native neighborhoods on merchandise and sourcing.”
In a current interview, Mamdani stated that he desires to ascertain “a pilot program of 1 retailer in every borough that builds on the feasibility research that was achieved in Chicago.” Certainly, in 2023, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson did suggest opening such grocery shops, in response to the closing of many supermarkets in poor areas of town, and he did fee a feasibility research to look at the query. That research has not been made public, nonetheless, and Mayor Johnson has backed off his plan, although the state of Illinois established a “Grocery Initiative” to offer municipalities with as much as $2.4 million to open grocery shops. Chicago has not utilized for any of this cash.
There are such a lot of methods this might go badly.
How will a $30 min wage assist maintain costs down? Or will of us be anticipated to work the money registers without spending a dime?
— Betsy’76 (@LadyAmPatriot) April 4, 2025
Think about the DMV, however a grocery retailer. Within the Soviet Union, individuals waited in line for hours and located empty cabinets, and in Venezuela, authorities management led to meals shortages, leaving many hungry—when the federal government runs shops, it’s tougher to get meals, and costs don’t actually go…
— Matt Kilmer (@mattkilmer) April 4, 2025
This buffoon desires to place bodegas & grocery shops out of enterprise by creating grocery shops run by town to undercut them. He promised the taxpayer can pay their hire & they’re going to be exempt from sure taxes. You’d should be a psychopath or an fool to assist this https://t.co/nlU2lNQsYv
— Sean Fitzgerald (Precise Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) April 4, 2025
The American left is satisfied that socialism will lastly work this time, so long as they’re in cost.
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