{"id":315725,"date":"2026-08-07T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315725\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:04:08","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-team-clarifies-city-owned-grocery-stores-wont-use-id-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315725\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Team Clarifies City-Owned Grocery Stores Won\u2019t Use \u2018ID System\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City officials clarified that shoppers will not need identification to buy goods at planned city-owned grocery stores, addressing confusion from earlier remarks. The mayor&#8217;s office said the municipal grocery stores will consider a loyalty-card program, but any ID requirement is not part of the plan for New York City grocery stores. At a Monday, July 27 press conference later recirculated on Monday, August 3, Economic Development Corporation leader Jeanny Pak described a &#8220;library card-esque&#8221; system to focus benefits on everyday New Yorkers. Spokesperson Cassio Mendoza told Forbes the tool would manage inventory, not verify identity, and the city plans one store per borough featuring a core basket priced about 30 percent cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City officials clarified that shoppers will not need identification to buy goods at planned city-owned grocery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19865,9,24,56,63,65,64,4618],"class_list":["post-315725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-grocery-stores","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-press-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315725","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=315725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}