{"id":314125,"date":"2026-08-05T07:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314125\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:04:26","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-team-clarifies-city-owned-grocery-stores-wont-use-identification-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314125\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Team Clarifies City-Owned Grocery Stores Won\u2019t Use \u2018Identification System\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor<\/a> Zohran Mamdani<\/a>‘s team is now clarifying that an ID will not be required to shop at a city-owned grocery store.<\/p>\n

As <\/a>Globe<\/a> previously reported<\/a>, a clip of Mamdani’s Monday, July 27 press conference about the five municipal grocery stores opening in the city recirculated on Monday, August 3.<\/p>\n

In the press conference \u2014 posted on YouTube<\/a> by the mayor’s office \u2014 Intrem, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation, Jeanny Pak explained, “We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be a sort of a library card-esque thing, and also we manage who’s buying and that it’s focused on everyday New Yorkers.”<\/p>\n

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Some people were angry with what was perceived as ID requirements, sparking backlash. However, the mayor’s office told Forbes<\/a> on Monday that Pak was talking about some sort of loyalty-card program that won’t require ID or an address.<\/p>\n

“Comparisons to voter ID laws or the SAVE Act simply do not apply,” Mamdani’s spokesperson Cassio Mendoza told the outlet. “This is not an identification system, nor is it a mechanism to verify who someone is, where they live, or how much they earn.”<\/p>\n

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“It is a practical inventory management tool to ensure affordable groceries remain available for the people who need them instead of being cleared off shelves for resale,” Mendoza added.<\/p>\n

According to the NYC.gov website<\/a>, there will be a city-owned grocery store<\/a> in each of the five boroughs, and they will include “a core basket of everyday groceries” which “will be 30 percent cheaper.”<\/p>\n

This story NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Team Clarifies City-Owned Grocery Stores Won’t Use ‘Identification System’<\/a> first appeared on Globe<\/a>. Follow Globe<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s team is now clarifying that an ID will not be required to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54394,9220,19865,59644,92946,9,24,56,63,65,64,118623,82],"class_list":["post-314125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-economic-development-corporation","tag-grocery-store","tag-grocery-stores","tag-id-requirements","tag-jeanny-pak","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-voter-id-laws","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314125","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=314125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}