Create City-Run Grocery Stores

Overview

• • As candidate, Mayor Mamdani said he would create a pilot network of city-owned grocery stores, with one location in each borough, to sell food at lower prices.

• • He said the stores would operate with lower overhead by avoiding rent and property taxes, buying and selling at wholesale prices, and centralizing warehousing and distribution.

• • In a CNN interview, Mamdani said the pilot would cost about $60 million and could be funded by redirecting existing city subsidies currently used to support private grocery operators.

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