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.

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

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      It’s not about any of the virtue signals they claim.

      It is about using capital to extract as much capital as possible. That means spending and paying your workers as little as possible, while charging consumers as much as possible. That means signing contracts with the IDF to help them genocide Palestinians; Microsoft would help the nazis murder your whole family if they believed it were the most profitable way to covert you into capital.

      It’s about selfishness, greed, sociopathy, and psychopathy.

  • BooBees@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    26·
    8 days ago

    Weird, they kept saying it wouldn’t work at all. If that were true they wouldn’t need to sue and it would just fail to impact their own businesses. It’s almost like they’re gouging customers and fear people will see how much so.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    8 days ago

    Yeah, uh, creating an “unfair” business environment is precisely the fucking point, because the prices the grocery stores were and are charging are actually unfair and exorbitant.