Posted on 05/06/2026 5:19:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
The neighborhood where NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to build a government owned grocery store already has almost 50 markets within walking distance, raising further questions about his far left pipe dreams.
Is the new store even necessary? Mamdani probably does not care about that. This is merely a campaign promise and he likely sees it as something on which he has to deliver.
What is often not discussed is the competition this government owned store is going to create for all of these other privately owned stores.
Ask any business owner, and they will tell you it is near to impossible to compete with the government, which always has more resources and money.
FOX News reports:
NYC grocers sound alarm on Mamdani’s supermarket plan: ‘We’ll lose customers’
A proposal by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to open a city-run grocery store is facing pushback from East Harlem grocers who say the area is already saturated with supermarkets and bodegas.
The plan, part of a broader effort to address rising grocery costs in the city, would establish publicly run stores across New York’s five boroughs — but the push to improve affordability could come at a cost for small businesses already on thin margins.
The first store is expected to open next year in La Marqueta, an existing public market space at Park Avenue and 115th Street in East Harlem. The city will spend roughly $30 million to build the store.
Roughly 45 grocery stores sit within a 35-minute walk of the proposed grocery site, according to a Fox News Digital analysis.
The existing stores include a mix of major chains like Whole Foods and Lidl, as well as smaller neighborhood markets and bodegas.
The area is also well served by public transit. There are multiple subway and bus lines giving residents several ways to reach nearby stores if they are not in reasonable walking distance.
Some local grocers say the added competition of the city-owned store could hurt their businesses.
“Of course it will affect this store,” said Sarah Kang, manager at a CTown Supermarkets location about a 35-minute walk south, or one subway stop, from La Marqueta.
You can see a map of the other stores in the graphic below:
This could backfire in an extraordinary way if Mamdani’s city owned store causes others to have to close.
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I have to wonder how many of those that own/work in those grocery stores voted for this commie bastard.
Better than 90% I’d say.............
Dammit, you nattering nabobs of negativism!! NYC is unliveable and Zoltan is going to do whatever it takes to see that it stays that way.
Sometimes people have to experience pain to learn a lesson.
Why does anyone doubt that he wants the 30 existing stores to close? He’s a communist lunatic. With no competition it’s so much “simpler”. One brand of crappy government issued toothpaste, etc. You don’t really think he wants the government to have to purchase the products on the open market. Of course not. He is “owed” all that from controlled sources without all the foolish capitalist competition.
Just like he doesn’t really want people to have jobs, decent housing or anything else.
One gray single sex outfit,a food ration and a bunk bed. Except for him and his anti semite wife.
One more store = more competition. What’s wrong with more capitalism?
Eat Z bugs.
When government is involved, it’s always about “the money”. In the case of government owned grocery stores one can only imagine the graft and corruption activities which will abound, which are the true aim.
Oh, boy, I'm going to be rich. If I live long enough for either one of them to be built.
A majority I’m sure and they’d vote for him again.
That's why they chose this spot. Having the gov't heavily subsidize the store he wants to build will force the others out of business.
Not a thing...in the Free Market System. Capitalism is a derogatory term created by socialists and critics to address the free market economies of the West.
From where will the state owned grocery stores buy inventory?
Who will sell a customer who can’t pay?
Could even be unconstitutional because it targets certain groups.
Every block in Manhattan has just about everything you need. You could probably spend your life on one block and never leave. If you meet an adult who has never had a driver’s license, you know they live in Manhattan.
Commie grocery stores are a travesty in their own right. The density point the article is attempting to make is actually kind of irrelevant - if there are 45 stores close by, how does the 45th one stay in business? The 44th?...
Cuz Manhattan.
Oh, I'm sure Imamdani "knows a guy".
Who will sell a customer who can’t pay?
That's the best part; everything is free.
Where in the NYC charter does it give government the right to operate commercial enterprises?
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