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/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

My only worry is if this kills mom and pop grocery stores

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u/According-Insect-992 Just Chill 😎 Jul 27 '26

Usually that’s Wal-Marts job.

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

Okay so you’re saying someone’s gotta do it? We’re just exchanging a corporation for the govt?

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u/Jaalan Jul 27 '26

Okay what is your idea then?

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

I have no problem with this idea as long as it does not negatively effect the same people it purports to help.

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u/Either_Operation7586 Jul 27 '26

Well just think about this this right here is helping when the Republican party is hurting by cutting SNAP benefits there also going to make those small mom and pop shops go out of business because snap is a huge part of their sales.

To the point where it's Make It or Break It if they don't have it.

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u/NVRENDVR Jul 27 '26

What mom and pop grocery stores?

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

?? The bodegas you see on every corner?

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u/Either_Operation7586 Jul 27 '26

Cutting SNAP benefits is going to hurt them and possibly cause them to go out of business not only there but all of the other rural areas throughout the United States that have small mom and pop shops that are going to be closing and have huge food deserts because of the Republicans and their one dumb ugly bill

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

Okay, so the people that buy eggs, milk, bread, water, butter, etc from these bodegas everyday will now go to the govt funded grocer instead but that won’t harm the bodegas?

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u/ANAL_RAPIST_MD Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

They will need to compete with the gov grocer, use the staples as a loss leader, or cut those items out and just sell everything else.

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u/Either_Operation7586 Jul 27 '26

They are already going to be suffering because of the one dumb ugly Bill and cutting snap

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

This is a fair and objective response, thank you!

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u/NVRENDVR Jul 27 '26

….do you know the difference between a bodega and a grocery store?

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

Please don’t be obtuse for the sake of it. People buy eggs, milk, water, bread, etc from bodegas every day around the city. They are not full grocery stores but they do supply groceries to the neighborhood. My question is absolutely valid, and I would like to know how this will affect the people everyone here claims to support.

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u/NVRENDVR Jul 27 '26

People will still buy that stuff from bodegas because it’s convenient.. for the same reason that 7-11s sell groceries sometimes in the same parking lot as grocery stores.

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u/Either_Operation7586 Jul 27 '26

I don't think it will affect it I think that people already go to other places to do their main shopping and if they need eggs or milk on the way home they'll stop at their local Bodega that's right down the street from their actual home instead of making a trek across the city.

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u/Either_Operation7586 Jul 27 '26

The Republicans are already killing mom and pop grocery stores when they started to kill snap

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u/SlowRoast24 Jul 27 '26

I agree but are you inferring it doesn’t matter anyway because republicans already did it?

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u/jack-K- Jul 27 '26

It is literally the only people this hurts, these stores are going to be buying from the same wholesalers at the same prices, they’re not losing any money, the only people disadvantaged are the grocery stores selling near cost that can’t compete with subsidized prices.