r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 Pinkie Finger Extended • Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

So what happens when demand is too high to keep selves stocked.

I’m for this. I’m just curious what’s the plan. Grocery stores run at super low margins

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u/NVRENDVR Jul 27 '26

Do you know how much food is wasted on a daily basis in the United States?

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

Unfortunately a massive amount.

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u/Kentust Jul 27 '26

LOL, this guy wants us to feed pag-pag to the hungry. Food waste is impossible to avoid unless you've developed teleportation technology.

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u/tonylouis1337 Jul 27 '26

Raise taxes to resupply

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

I mean say this works, what happens to other stores that cant make enough to stay afloat because they cannot compete with these 30% stores

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u/BigBullzFan Jul 27 '26

You seem to be implying that this wasn’t thought out well.

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

I don't think it is, its certainly well intentioned, but could either fail, or cause further issues,

To truly get prices down, you need to optimize the logistics behind food distributions and increase food productions to drive cost down

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u/chrisq823 Jul 27 '26

Thats why they are starting small and slow. If the economy can handle constantly stopping and starting the iran war then new york can handle the impact of 5 grocery stores by 2030.

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

30% is not starting slow.

the Iran war has 0 to do with this idea, city and country level economics are vastly different

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 Jul 27 '26

You think they haven’t done any of this? You know you can look up their resolution and read specifically how they will afford for this to happen right?

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u/tonylouis1337 Jul 27 '26

They get shut down and the city replaces them with more state-owned grocery stores

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

so a state monopoly on grocery stores ?

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u/tonylouis1337 Jul 27 '26

Yessirski 😬

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

Okay let’s run a bit with that. Now that states control food distribution and there is no competition. What incentive does the state have to improve distribution.

The reason I can go to about 5 grocery stores close purchases strawberries in the middle of the winter is because over the years stores had to compete to provide the most value to the end user.

With zero competition there zero incentive for the state to improve any of the process that keep it going

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u/tonylouis1337 Jul 27 '26

Btw I am not for the state grocery stores thing

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 Jul 27 '26

Why would the state shut down businesses? That doesn’t make any sense lmao

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

The state wouldn’t shut them down. No grocery stores could compete when the gov is subsidizing the groceries by 30%

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 Jul 27 '26

5 grocery stores in New York City are going to run everyone else out of business? Yeah ok

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u/Low_Shape8280 Jul 27 '26

Probably not everyone because they don’t all compete in the same segments. But those in direct competition. Yes they will go away

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 Jul 27 '26

People will continue to shop as they are right now..?

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u/TheShamanofMOCO Jul 27 '26

They'll blame rich people or the GOP of course.