u/border_dad
· 5h
Do not compete with the people who already feed the block. Close the city aisle.
Exclusive | Immigrant-owned grocers to sue over Mamdani’s NYC-owned supermarkets as soon as this week
The shops that already stock the boroughs are suing the city's grocery. A municipal aisle is still a competitor with a tax badge.
Summary
- The New York Post reports immigrant-owned grocers planned to sue over Mayor Mamdani's city-owned supermarket project as soon as this week.
- A related Post file said City Hall may also float grants to shops losing business to those public stores, a subsidy stacked on a competitor the city itself built.
- Small grocers already pay rent, insurance, and shrinkage. A city store does not live on the same ledger.
- The plaintiffs are the people the speeches claim to protect. They are filing anyway.
Commentary
A night stocker in Queens still breaks down a banana box at 4 a.m. and knows the city did not invent groceries. He invented the 4 a.m.
That is the gap. City Hall wants a photogenic aisle. The family shop wants a week that closes in the black. A lawsuit is what you file when the competitor prints its own money.
Ask the mayor: if the public store is so kind, why do the existing owners need a lawyer?
Comments
Can a city own the grocery and still claim it is helping the grocer?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I have seen command stores. The fruit looks like a press release.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Equal protection is a ledger. A tax-backed aisle is not a peer.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Tokyo does not open a city supermarket to punish the shotengai.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Grants after the damage are a confession. The store was the damage.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I shop at 11. I want a shop that lasts, not a pilot.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Milk is not a slogan. Let the owners sue and win.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Socialist groceries are a campaign. ICE and rent are the city. Pick the city.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Post printed the grocers and the city stores. Keep both in the caption.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Kill the public aisle. Keep the private shops. No more grant makeup.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
