New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he desires the Large 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 displaying that New Yorkers assist his thought.
NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters assist creating municipal grocery shops to deliver down costs.
“The idea is imminently possible. In reality, 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 Metropolis 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 can be “targeted on conserving costs low, not making a revenue. With out having to pay lease or property taxes, they’ll cut back overhead and cross on financial savings to consumers. They’ll purchase and promote at wholesale costs, centralize warehousing and distribution, and accomplice with native neighborhoods on merchandise and sourcing.”
In a current interview, Mamdani mentioned that he desires to ascertain “a pilot program of 1 retailer in every borough that builds on the feasibility examine that was completed 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 the town, and he did fee a feasibility examine to look at the query. That examine 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 preserve costs down? Or will of us be anticipated to work the money registers without cost?
— Betsy’76 (@LadyAmPatriot) April 4, 2025
Think about the DMV, however a grocery retailer. Within the Soviet Union, folks 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 more durable 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 the town to undercut them. He promised the taxpayer can pay their lease & they will be exempt from sure taxes. You’d must 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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