{"id":313807,"date":"2026-08-04T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:14:08","slug":"will-shoppers-need-id-for-nyc-city-run-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313807\/","title":{"rendered":"Will shoppers need ID for NYC city-run stores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Shoppers who want lower prices at city-run grocery stores in New York City may have to prove their residency, though conflicting reports claim the city will not require an ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday the city wants to prevent nonresidents from accessing food that could cost 30% less than what traditional supermarkets charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The city-run stores will offer a free, voluntary membership card program, but according to the New York Post, shoppers will not have to prove their residency. The city also doesn\u2019t want people reselling the items on social media, which may require item limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">On Reddit, some commenters favored the ID approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cHe is doing this for residents of NYC who pay taxes,\u201d one poster said. \u201cHe is protecting the food for the people who live in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cGood,\u201d another poster wrote. \u201cThis benefit is for New York City residents since the city subsidizes it with their tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/grocery-operations\/ahold-delhaize-winds-down-pa-frozen-warehouse-operations\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ahold Delhaize winds down Pa. frozen warehouse operations<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Mamdani <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/new-stores\/new-york-city-run-grocery-stores-will-offer-a-30-discount\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> last week that stores will price certain items\u2014including produce, meat, bread and milk\u2014at 30% below average market prices. The city will price the remaining products at market rates. The mayor said the discounts could save shoppers about $90 per month, or more than $1,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The city plans to open one city-run store in each borough, but officials have announced locations for only two so far\u2014in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx and the La Marqueta market in East Harlem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The Multicultural Business Coalition, which formed this year to fight Mamdani\u2019s grocery store plan and comprises 50 chambers of commerce representing Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Jewish-owned businesses in New York, <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/grocery-operations\/group-ready-to-sue-nyc-over-its-city-run-grocery-plan\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plans<\/a> to sue the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers who want lower prices at city-run grocery stores in New York City may have to prove their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-313807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313807","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=313807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}