NYC's socialist mayor wants to spend $70m just to study whether Big Apple should open government-run grocery stores

dm ^ | 25 February 2026 | WILL POTTER

[chief lee runamok]

New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to spend $70 million on a 'feasibility study' into launching government-owned grocery stores, reports say.

The mayor, 34, has cried poverty since taking office as he threatens to raise taxes across the Big Apple to fund his projects, claiming he was left with a huge $5.4 billion financial black hole by his predecessor Eric Adams.

But sources tell the New York Post that Mamdani is set to spend $70 million to fund the Economic Development Corporation, which will scout potential locations for his city-run grocery stores.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; US: New York; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: mamdani; newyork; nyc

[chief lee runamok]

mamdani is merely doing what communists do best; enriching other communists.

[albie]

Go ahead! It’s only money!

[Libloather]

I volunteer.

[butlerweave]

The Big Rotten Apple will destroy all Real grocery stores

[brookwood]

“I volunteer.”
You are missing the point. The job of doing the feasibility study will pay $300 per hour, and the only qualification is that you have to be a friend of Mamdami’s family and own a computer and a protractor.

[Eli Kopter]

Which relative gets the 70 million? Him or his family?

[dfwgator]

$70 million to go on ChatGPT.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

New York voted for this. Let him do it.

[SaveFerris]

[Government-Owned Grocery Stores]

Combine the above with Digital Currency, Digital ID,
CBDC and Chinese Social Credit Score Systems!

WHAT could POSSIBLY GO WRONG??!!??



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Easier to see the University Palm Print Scanner (in action)
with this one (will some buffets install similar?)

NOTE the label on the Palm Print Scanner:

DARTMOUTH DINING (Hall)

(The Class of 1953 Commons)

[butlerweave]

Government run for muslims ?

[thegagline]

To Mayor Mamdani:
I just researched government run grocery stores in the Soviet Union. It was a disaster. Please make the $70,000,000 check payable to…

[Slingwing]

$70M to the laundromat for friends and family. Shell companies will be flourishing.

[Chewbarkah]

I misread the title to mean Mamidami was going to spend 70 minutes on this. Seemed about an hour longer than it’s worth, but he has no business experience.

[SaveFerris]

THREAD PING!



I predict that there will eventually be a Global Digital ID

Using data from all of the nations of the world - YMMV

YOU VILL SUBMIT TO ZEE
NEW WORLD ORDER, CITIZEN!!

[AZJeep]

For $100 I can provide the results!
Do not do it!

[vpintheak]

So they’re short of money, need to raise property taxes by 9.5%. Then proposes 70 million to study something. Not actually do anything, just study it.
What a freak show.

[sphinx]

$70 million to “study” why Mamdani’s campaign promises were idiot bait lunacy?

And in another year, it will be $140 million for a reevaluation and expansion of the $70 million study.

Grifters gotta grift and socialists gotta sosh.

[rlmorel]

You almost have to admire the level of idiocy in Leftists.

You do the study before you do the trial.

You do the trial before you do the implementation.

Then, before you do the implementation, you study history to conclude it has never worked, it will never work, and you do not proceed with the implementation.

[MrRelevant]

Give me 35m and Ill tell you the answer….

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

"feasibility study" is a line item to put $70M of govt funds into a war chest for reelection, until people understand this they'll keep OMFG'ing about the line item memo.