Zo’s pet-project grocery: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Mayor Mamdani reveals his $30 million plan for New York’s first city-run grocery store.
Mayor Mamdani is allocating $70 million in capital funds to finance government-run supermarkets? I assumed we have been dealing with a funds disaster (“$30M for a Trader Zo’s,” April 14).
James Keivom for NY Post
Yes, food costs have gone up, however supermarkets operate on very slim margins — and customers have the fitting to buy round to seek out decrease costs. It’s known as capitalism.
All it will reach doing is placing smaller food shops, which don’t have the benefit of free rent and taxes, out of business. I assume Mamdani can get advice from authorities food managers from Venezuela and Cuba.
Bill Isler
Floral Park
A $30 million city-run grocery store opening up in 2029? Why trouble, it’s already a failure.
John Avelli
Brooklyn
The mayor’s plan to construct a $30 million grocery store is a textbook instance of authorities waste. This pet project smells of Bill de Blasio’s program for his spouse, “ThriveNYC,” which value taxpayers $1 billion.
Our personal food-distribution system has served us nicely. Compare our present system to the Soviet Union — the place authorities store cabinets have been empty, and there have been long strains as soon as food arrived.
I predict this shall be a failure and harm the personal supermarkets and bodegas in that neighborhood. A metropolis in a funds disaster can’t afford this.
Mark Seitelman
Manhattan
Is anybody being attentive to Mamdani’s supposed attempt to help the “poor?”
His city-owned grocery shops will value far more than what it takes to construct a personal grocery store. And everyone knows how projected prices in authorities spending go: Never on time or underneath funds, however normally method over.
I’d wager that it’s more than the “poor” who’re benefiting from such projected gross expenditures.
Gerald DeAngelus
Latham
Here’s a mayor complaining that town is broke, but he has town spending 30 million bucks to refurbish an space in East Harlem into a city-owned grocery store.
This goes to harm the small grocery house owners within the space, who’ve been there for years. Most will ultimately need to close their doorways.
Unfortunately, it is going to worsen earlier than it will get higher. Voters bear in mind of who you vote for subsequent time round.
Rob Johann
Woodhaven
At current, SNAP benefit playing cards can be utilized to buy luxurious gadgets that almost all low-paid employees can’t afford, like lobster and filet mignon.
If low costs in Mamdani’s New York City grocery store will solely apply to staples like bread, flour or milk, why can’t Congress go a law proscribing SNAP purchases to comparable food lessons?
Nick O’Dell
Phoenixville, Pa.
Babies are getting shot on the street, emotionally disturbed people are pushing people onto the subway tracks and gang members on motorbikes are robbing people roaming town.
But in a 12 months or two, some people shall be paying much less for bread and eggs. What does the long run maintain for this metropolis?
Louie Scarcella
Coney Island
Mamdani is opening one of his metropolis supermarkets geared towards having cheaper costs. These shops will undercut the costs within the space and harm many different companies.
He’ll have people rely on town groceries whereas surrounding supermarkets undergo. Meanwhile, the project is costing taxpayers $30 million.
If I used to be a grocery store proprietor situated close to a city-owned place like this, I’d protest loudly and phone my native politician.
Nothing good can come from this for established companies. This is a socialist concept at its worst.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
Never in my lifetime would I’ve thought I’d see my metropolis being run by a Marxist mayor. Zohran Mamdani is doing simply that and he’s getting away with it. It actually makes me sick to my abdomen.
Even although I needed to go away New York for medical causes, I nonetheless contemplate it my metropolis.
Dick Mills
Franklin Lakes, NJ
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