Onward the Revolution!
Posted on 04/17/2026 4:31:32 PM PDT by Libloather
New York City grocers are lobbying Council Speaker Julie Menin to oppose Mayor Mamdani’s plan to open city-run grocery stores — and are optimistic that she’ll take their side after she issued a cool response to the controversial proposal earlier this week, The Post has learned.
The grocers are fast-tracking outreach to the Manhattan Dem and other Council members, who are expected to get a vote on whether to fund Mamdani’s plan that calls for $30 million for one grocery store alone, insiders said.
“This is just five days old but we are doing what we can to reach [Council members] to say, ‘Hey, let’s discuss what’s impacting existing food stores,'” said Mike Durant, chief executive of the Food Industry Alliance of New York, which represents 3,000 grocery stores.
Local grocers were floored by the democratic socialist mayor’s Sunday announcement that the city would open one of five grocery stores at La Marqueta in East Harlem — and they view the plan as unnecessary, taxpayer-funded competition in a brutal business.
There are already five grocery stores within two blocks of the proposed site on Park Avenue near East 115th Street — and 15 within five blocks — according to the National Supermarket Association.
“We expected the Council to line up behind the mayor on this issue,” said one local Bronx grocer, Carlos Collado.
Menin gave a noncommittal statement, instead.
“As our city confronts ongoing fiscal and affordability crises, the City Council is identifying responsible solutions to lower costs and address food insecurity,” her office said.
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Mamdani would love to turn this story into “Greedy Food Store Owners Try To Starve Millions Of Poor New Yorkers.”
Onward the Revolution!
When the Real Stores go out of business it will be Venezuela
Socialism: You wait for bread.
Capitalism: Bread waits for you.
Financial advisor and baker allegedly swiped millions from NYC church to pay for his own groceries
>>There are already five grocery stores within two blocks of the proposed site on Park Avenue near East 115th Street — and 15 within five blocks
That hardly sounds like a “food desert” that they use as justification.
Mamdani wants to ‘eat the rich’? Then who will be left to feed the city’s ginormous budget?
Meme....
“Nothing to be proud of, nothing to be proud of.”
—Clark Griswold to his son.
In the days of self respecting families of New York there would have been sudden problems with the new site: mysterious but effective setbacks, fires, detection of poison in water.
Are the grocers going to meekly accept going out of business to Commies?
In the days of self respecting families of New York there would have been sudden problems with the new site: mysterious but effective setbacks, fires, detection of poison in water.
“I assure you it isn’t the Boy Scouts.”
30 million with it NOT being built for 3 years. Just think what they could NOT build in 5 years with 50 million!!!
It is not a food desert.
“It is not a food desert.”
Yet.
“That hardly sounds like a “food desert” that they use as justification.”
Stores probably have security keeping the locals from mobbing them and stripping them bare.
“New” stores will be more looter-friendly.
Those days are over. In the era of full blown Soviet style grocery stores by a full blown Marxist, it will be the corporate owned grocery stores that have mysterious but effective setbacks, fires, detection of poison in water.
Why would these 5 stores solve any problem in a state with millions....including millions on SNAP.
1,700,000 New Yorkers receive SNAP....AND....we feed every kid in school...and even when they’re on summer vacation.
Exactly! This is another Dem Socialist money laundering scam… like the learing centers , bullet train, childcares and hospices. They never build a dang thing, yet the money just disappears!
Yeah, it’s true.
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