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Zohran Mamdani on Families & Children

NY State Rep and 2025 NYC Mayoral candidate

 


One city-run grocery store in each of five boroughs

Q: Here's how The Washington Post editorial board wrote about your proposal. They say, "the grocery business operates on thin margins, and his plans for city-run stores would probably lead to fewer options, poor service and shortages."

MAMDANI: I've put forward a proposal for a pilot of one grocery store in each borough. These are five grocery stores that would cost $60 million in a city budget of more than $113 billion. And we've seen that they've worked in Kansas. We've seen that when a feasibility study was done in Chicago, it was shown to be something that was not only feasible but pressing and urgent in an urban setting. And, finally, it costs less than half of what the city's already set to spend on subsidizing corporate supermarkets without any guarantee of cheaper prices, any guarantee of collective bargaining agreements or that they accept SNAP or WIC.

Source: Meet the Press interview of 2025 NYC Mayoral candidates , Jun 29, 2025

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