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Mayor Zohran Mamdani planning city-run grocery stores across New York City.
The goal, making essential food items more affordable, but critics say the plan creates unfair competition for local supermarkets.
NTD's Niku Bonnie takes a closer look at the debate.
Stores where prices are fair, where workers are treated with dignity, and where New Yorkers can actually afford to shop.
At our stores, eggs will be cheaper. Bread will be cheaper.
Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani aiming to lower prices of some essential goods in new taxpayer-funded grocery stores.
My taxes is going back to to helping people that are less fortunate to actually eat food.
I'm totally down for it, you know what I mean? I mean, I'd want to know what the tax effect of the program would be.
Not that it shouldn't cost anything, but again, it has to be a good cost-to-benefit ratio.
Building one store in each borough by 2029, costs are projected at $70 million.
The first location in East Harlem, measuring at 90,000 square feet, the size of an average grocery store, and costing around $30 million.
Right by La Marqueta is a city-owned vacant lot where Mayor Mamdani plans to open his city-run grocery store by the end of 2027.
Now, this is actually a special spot because La Marqueta was opened in 1936 by Mayor LaGuardia to have food vendors come together and sell their goods at a lower cost.
Any way we could just trim some, you know, keep some money out of pockets and trim costs is is a win, especially we all need to eat, so I don't I don't think see it as a long-term solution.
I see it as a probably not so great idea. Who going to provide that cheaper groceries?
The city covering construction and ownership, while a private operator would handle day-to-day operations.
And the stores not needing to pay rent or property taxes.
This model raising concerns about fairness for local grocers.
If it's right next door to a a bunch of other stores, certainly a discussion.
The competition going to be tight here.
Anthony Pena, president of the National Supermarket Association, speaking for the independent grocery stores he represents.
The stores in the neighborhood, they feel like, "Wait a minute, you know, I've been here for 20 years. I never asked the government for anything. I haven't even, you know, no benefits, no grants, nothing. And pay taxes, higher, and then that same tax money that I'm paying out is going to be used to compete against me?"
Pena commenting on what he says is a higher than average cost for a grocery store, saying there are better places to put the money that don't overlook the businesses already there.
You already have an infrastructure. You already have community supermarkets in the area. You already have the network.
You have the You have the experience. You know,
why would you you know, why would you gamble with with that? So, yeah.
With five stores in the entire city, critics also raising concerns about overcrowding.
Fernando Mateo with United Bodegas of America telling local ABC News, "You know it's going to be more turmoil than anything else.
It's a great punchline for him and for the socialist movement, but New York is not a socialist city."
But even with the concerns, Pena has faith in his community.
Although I feel very confident in the independent market and the spirit and how they know their neighborhoods and they're so entrenched in the neighborhoods
that I I I I don't see an immediate disadvantage because we are a neighborhood.
The city can be the city, but we we we live and breathe our neighborhoods.
Now, the plan still needing approval from City Council before moving forward. Niku Bonnie, NTD News.
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