free groceries.<\/a><\/p>\nWhat we know<\/p>\n
Polymarket, a prediction market, opened what it’s calling “New York’s First Free Grocery Stores” at 7th Avenue and Charles Street on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Each shopper is given a tote bag, which they can fill with any groceries they want for free.<\/p>\n
FOX 5’s Linda Schmidt took a peak inside the store, where paper towels, toilet paper, toiletries, along with a variety of fruits, vegetables and meat were stocked for shoppers.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
Several dozens of New Yorkers came out in the cold to experience the free experience, which some believe has become a necessity.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s very imperative, because of the simple fact of inflation across the country,” one shopper said. “Many families are struggling to provide for their families.”<\/p>\n
However, others think it should be a temporary solution.<\/p>\n
“It’s a good idea for the experience, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for New York to do this all the time,” another shopper said.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
The free grocery store is scheduled to open at noon every day until February 15. Polymarket has yet to say if they will host any other free pop-ups.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information from this article was sourced from reporting for FOX 5 NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Polymarket opened a free grocery store pop-up in New York City on Thursday. Shoppers get to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56494,36911,9220,56493,9,24,56,63,65,64,13672,53673],"class_list":["post-131974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-first-free-grocery-stores","tag-free-groceries","tag-grocery-store","tag-linda-schmidt","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-polymarket","tag-prediction-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}