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Mamdani Plans to Open First City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani will announce on Sunday that New York City will open a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem in Manhattan by the end of his first term, taking an early step to deliver on a key campaign pledge.

The mayor wants to spend roughly $30 million to build the store at La Marqueta, a city-owned marketplace under elevated train tracks in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. Mr. Mamdani will announce the plan at a speech on Sunday to mark his first 100 days as mayor.

As a candidate, Mr. Mamdani said he would create five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, in hopes of bringing down food costs for struggling New Yorkers.

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[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What happens when someone comes and takes/eats more than their fair share and it does not leave enough for everyone else? What happens when “scalpers” come to take the food and resell it?

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Same thing that happens when capitalists pillage indigenous folks off their resources in the Middle East: they are starved to death.
Starvation is a capitalist arsenal. There’s plenty of food to go around, store, and reharvest.
Mamdani isn't interested feeding New York by nationalizing food brokering, but seeing how well he can starve us just enough to be obedient Little Eichmann.

What happens when “scalpers” come to take the food and resell it?

This quite economically doesn't make sense, since folks could go to the foodbank giving and reharvesting free food. “Scalpers’” competition would be nobody, because they would have none to convert the “stolen” free food into something valuable the scalpers can liquidate. Food spoils btw. It's not in scalpers interests to keep “stolen” free food longer than their expiration.

Are you by any chance confused about what progressive politics are all about?