Newly elected New York City mayor wants state-run grocery stores

In Russia, we had Гастроном (Gastronom), where people often had to wait in long lines and there were frequent food shortages and lack of variety. It was the Moscow and other city dwellers who ate well. The state-run grocery stores where I am from in southern Russia were very poor and were forced to send the agricultural produce to the major cities. Russia now has a variety of grocery stores to choose from, many of which continue to have cheap foods. Zohran Mamdani wants to send NYC back in time and turn it into an anti-American communist pit.

He also plans to spend $65 million on “gender-affirming care.”

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iamthe99 · M

Massively exaggerated of course. He's suggesting just FIVE state run grocery stores, which would keep food prices down, and guess who's foaming at the mouth? Billionaire Gristedes supermarkets owner John Catsimatidis, who told the hard-right New York Post he would consider moving his business conglomerate to New Jersey should Mamdani win the general election.

Go then 🤣

ElwoodBlues · M

@iamthe99 Could be dealing with 'food deserts' AKA 'food apartheid,' areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food.

DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

@iamthe99 Im sure he will -along with many other wealthy individuals and business leaders who keep the city afloat.New York is in for a fun time if he wins.🙄

emiliya · 22-25, F

@iamthe99 It does not matter whether it is five or fifty supermarkets. Things have a habit of expanding and getting bigger. Is this an idea you want to see come to fruition? Why?