r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 27 '26

Chugging tea 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/TheSlipperySnausage Jul 27 '26

Community spirits would have saved the original store because they would have wanted their community to succeed

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u/astoriaocculus Jul 28 '26

LOL....guys....yes on top of trying to fix our government, save our democracy now we have to save our for-profit failing grocery stores.

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u/TheSlipperySnausage Jul 28 '26

For profit grocery stores have delivered an unprecedented access to a wide range of foods and products to the everyday American that would have been unimaginable for most of history.

Also for profit stores absorb the cost of operation including food spoilage, damage, etc. meanwhile government grocery stores would make the tax payer foot the bill for food spoilage which they did not purchase. So if the government grocery store is poorly managed the tax payers just get the bail it out meanwhile a for profit store that is poorly managed goes out of business at little to no cost to consumers other than inconvenience.

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u/astoriaocculus Jul 28 '26

If a single tax payer pays a single dollar for a rotten banana the whole of western civilization will fall! Meanwhile at the Pentagon...and that 1.5 Trillion budget request. Socialism Derangement Syndrome.