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Posted on 04/14/2026 10:04:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We told you that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would be bad, and the democrat socialist has proven to be as terrible or perhaps even worse than we warned.
He’s continued his antisemitic rhetoric and demeaning of police, wants to tax the wealthy out of existence (or at least, out of the state), and is striving to make DEI great again — just what nobody needs.
On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.
Trump could probably build a dozen of these for $30 million. Why so much? Union wages play a part, but that doesn't explain it all, considering Mamdani had earlier promised five stores for a mere $70 million:
Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.
“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.
The ghosts of the old Soviet Union leaders are beaming with pride when they watch this video:
Muslim Democrat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to open the first of his "Free" city-owned grocery stores in East Harlem next year.
The communist takeover of NYC is in full swing pic.twitter.com/yeCH6lW5oY— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 13, 2026
Now, does this sound fair to you? The store will be required to pay no taxes or rent, yet the neighboring competitors will face those high costs. That is not capitalism, folks.
The new grocery at the longstanding city-owned La Marqueta marketplace will run with a yet-to-be-picked operator reaping the benefits of a rent- and tax-free deal, City Hall officials told The Post on Monday.
Mamdani envisions that the low-cost deal — which he anounced during a Sunday celebration of his first 100 days in office -– will allow the grocery’s operator to pass on savings to hardscrabble New Yorkers reeling from foodstuff sticker shock, but neighboring grocer Abdul Shaher had doubts about its efficiency based on the exorbitant $30 million upfront cost.
“It’s gonna affect us real hard,” said Victor Vazquez, 33, manager at City Fresh Market. “It’s too near! Our prices might have to go up.”
Might have to?
The owner of Pamela’s Grocery Store bodega, meanwhile, 58-year-old Augustine Espinal, said it’s unquestionably going to hurt his bottom line. “The city has a much stronger business than I do,” he said. “It’ll be a loss in income."
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Critics have long bashed Mamdani’s plans to put city-run grocery stores in all five boroughs of the Big Apple. John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of one of NY’s staple grocery chains, Gristedes, threatened in June 2025, before Mamdani won the election, that he might head to greener pastures. “If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” he warned.
Said Fernando Mateo of the United Bodegas of America, meanwhile: "These stores are going to get jam-packed, they're only four or five in the entire city of 8 million people."
"What do you expect is going to happen? You're going to have people rushing to these stores early in the morning to late at night, waiting on long lines. You know, it's going to be more turmoil than anything else. It's a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement."
"But New York is not a socialist city," he concluded.
Maybe it's not a socialist city yet, but with Zohran in charge, it's quickly on its way to becoming one.
🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani's first "FREE" grocery store is already BURNING UP the budget, and it's going to take a YEAR to open
SHOCKER! 🤣
Mamdani budgeted $70 million for FIVE groceries stores, but this first grocery store ALONE will cost $30 MILLION
Communism doesn't work! pic.twitter.com/vjKe5qUkMA— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 13, 2026
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All Walmarts closed. Nike, now Grocery Outlet; a socialist city in a socialist state, everything is failing. Past is prolog, NYC.
It is so interesting how Liberals that have never lived under Communism/Socialism think it is an amazing system, yet older people who lived under such systems when the Iron Curtain was rock solid not only HATED the system but even dared risk loss of freedom and life to escape it. And those who could not escape faced poverty, shallow availability of products, and a lower standard of living than those in free economies.
Don’t those who think it is a great system question why those who ACTUALLY lived under it hated it?
It is a true dilemma how those who most love Communism/Socialism and the ones with the least experience of it.
I didn’t know that Grocery Outlet had stores all over the country. Yes,they have very good deals when you find something you actually want on their shelves.
You really think they’ll close in NYC?
We call Grocery Outlet “GrossOut”.
Bet the commie stors will be even more gross.
But the important thing is, that all the politicians get their kickbacks.
“...a yet-to-be-picked operator reaping the benefits of a rent- and tax-free deal”
And we can have no doubt at all that Madmani will pick someone eminently qualified for the job. I hear Swalwell might be available.
New Yorkers getting what they asked for. As always happens with socialism, scarcity is about to become the new normal for these benighted idiots. And they won’t have a clue as to why.
It will never open, so I wouldn’t worry about it. He’s going to piss that $30M away just like California’s Train to Nowhere.
Things don’t get money. All money goes to people. Those people are most likely Democrats.
You go in and if you are the right race and ethnicity, just take what you want and you don’t have to pay for it. Isn’t that what they have now?
You go in and if you are the right race and ethnicity, just take what you want and you don’t have to pay for it. Isn’t that what they have now?
“What a silly negro!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
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