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Mayoral Candidate Says He'll Lower Prices by Building Government-Owned Grocery Stores
Twitchy ^ | March 19, 2025 | Brett T.

Posted on 03/19/2025 7:35:19 PM PDT by kevcol

So it's not an entirely new idea being proposed here by New York State representative and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The Democratic Socialist put out a video explaining his plan to reduce price gouging — government-owned and run grocery stores in the city.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: grocery; grocerystores; mayors; newyork; nyc; socialism; stores
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To: kevcol
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21 posted on 03/19/2025 8:02:41 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: logi_cal869
LOL. See Post #17.
22 posted on 03/19/2025 8:02:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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To: kevcol

P=0

Q=0

How’s THAT GONNA WORK OUT FOR YA, BUDDY?


23 posted on 03/19/2025 8:03:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: logi_cal869

Photo....

“I know it’s that hussy Svetlana again. Buying the last rutabaga after I waited 45 minutes in the line outside.”


24 posted on 03/19/2025 8:03:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: kevcol

Another liberal moron running around with a mental disorder. Ho hum.


25 posted on 03/19/2025 8:03:51 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DoodleBob

Real life story. Twice in the past when every bit of frozen yogurt was sold out on a sale, there was a good amount of Vanilla Bean flavor left. Twice.


26 posted on 03/19/2025 8:04:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: gundog

RE: Shoplifters asking “What’s cheaper than free? “


What’s cooler than being cool?

Ice cold.

——Hey Ya!
song by OutKast (2003)

P.S. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor.


27 posted on 03/19/2025 8:10:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: gunnut

Years ago I heard a visiting Soviet interviewed who complimented the news guy by saying “Your government food distribution system in the United States is far more efficient than ours is.”

He was referring to agricultural harvesting and shipment, warehouses, trucks, supermarkets and Costco type big box stores which he assumed were owned by the government here.

Now they will be.


28 posted on 03/19/2025 8:15:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: kevcol

If it’s done right, the goobermint had nothing to do with it.


29 posted on 03/19/2025 8:19:08 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: kevcol
Didn't Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson say he was going to build a chain of city-owned grocery stores that would bring groceries to residents of Chicago's "food deserts" ?

I wonder what happened to that brilliant idea ?

30 posted on 03/19/2025 8:22:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: All
"Don't Mess With The Zohran", New York!
31 posted on 03/19/2025 8:26:30 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: kevcol

Idiot.


32 posted on 03/19/2025 8:27:04 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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33 posted on 03/19/2025 8:29:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Steely Tom
Didn't Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson say he was going to build a chain of city-owned grocery stores that would bring groceries to residents of Chicago's "food deserts" ? I wonder what happened to that brilliant idea?

What happened? They probably built the grocery stores in a real desert, thinking, like most democRATS, that they are doing good.

34 posted on 03/19/2025 8:30:09 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: kevcol

They’re too stupid to understand. The Soviets and communism aren’t doing too badly under Putin, right?


35 posted on 03/19/2025 8:32:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: kevcol
Zohran Mamdani

What's in a name?

In this case, pretty much all I need to know.

36 posted on 03/19/2025 8:33:08 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: kevcol

37 posted on 03/19/2025 8:33:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: kevcol
That will work like the Soviet Union.
38 posted on 03/19/2025 8:33:33 PM PDT by SmokingJoe (QATAR is "hradquaeters" of Hamas,)
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To: kevcol

brilliant!

no one price gouges better than the govt


39 posted on 03/19/2025 8:33:43 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: frank ballenger

I went to a microbiology conference where someone was discussing the challenges of food recalls. The distribution system in the US is so efficient that food can be sold in grocery stores in 13 states before anyone determines there is a problem with it. We literally cannot stop the distribution of tainted food in a timely manner, before it hits grocery shelves.

Our distribution system is great. Our recall system could use a little more work.


40 posted on 03/19/2025 8:42:58 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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