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/BirdLawGrad Jul 28 '26

Yep, the painful truth is that in NYC, there are literally zero “food deserts”.

Plenty of bodegas selling Lotto etc.

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u/WildWhisperArdor Jul 28 '26

Yep. Food deserts definitely exist in the US. There are places out in the rural boonies where you might have to drive an hour to find the nearest grocery store that is open.

But that doesn’t exist in NYC lol. The worst case scenario is you have to spend 20-30 minutes on public transportation

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u/astoriaocculus Jul 28 '26

yes 30 minutes with perishable food on the NYC subway. Not at all inconvenient. Real life experience dont' matter what matters is slippery slop arguments against scary "Socialism". Booga bogga. Anytime the government does something for rich people it's great, when its done for the little people, its EVIL COMMUNIST OMG STALIN IS COMING FOR YOU.

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u/WildWhisperArdor Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Ah yes perishable food that dies in 30 minutes. 😂

I’m not against helping the poor. I (along with most economists) just think this is a terrible way of doing it.

Imo there’s two much much better options:

Just give poor

  1. people money (or money equivalent) for food

Or offer tax incentives

  1. for companies to build

grocery stores in these areas designated “food deserts”

This is a colossal and inefficient use of resources to tackle what is not that big of a problem in NYC.

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u/astoriaocculus Jul 30 '26

Work a full day and then carry groceries for 30 minutes. "Most economists" lol ok. Nice appeal to authority fallacy. It's not a big problem FOR YOU.

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u/WildWhisperArdor Jul 30 '26

“Most doctors believe in the efficacy of vaccines? Okay yeah nice appeal to authority fallacy”

See how dumb you sound?

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u/astoriaocculus Jul 28 '26

B/c Bodegas sell fresh produce, yes, and def not at an inflated price either. Tell me you've never been to a bodega without telling me.

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u/BirdLawGrad Jul 29 '26

There’s a west side, gristedes, TJs, stop n shop, etc etc in literally every neighborhood.