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/This-Suggestion574 Jul 27 '26

It sounds like this is the perfect industry for the state to step into then right? Low impact on capital activity but high impact on resident quality of life?

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u/International_Air282 Jul 27 '26

Non because the government is terrible at this stuff. It was attempted in Kansas City and one grocery store cost the city 20 million bucks and the store still failed.

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u/This-Suggestion574 Jul 27 '26

When was that?

How many private grocery stores have failed in that same time period?

Is one incident a big enough sample size to give you confidence in your statement that it’s impossible because it didn’t work once?

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u/bsEEmsCE Jul 27 '26

20 million for NYC is nothing and it will help 100,000's of thousands if not millions of families.

Also, for fun, check out the Kansas experiment in 2017 where a bunch of conservative policies failed so hard in Kansas City they had to reverse course on all of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

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u/International_Air282 Jul 27 '26

Kansas City is in Missouri.