A group of supermarkets, grocery stores and bodegas are suing New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans to open several city-run grocery stores. They say the city-run stores will create unfair competition for an already struggling industry.<\/p>\n
In East Harlem, plans are to build a city-subsidized grocery store right across the street from a bodega. The store will be at the old la Marqueta, promising a 30 percent savings on staples.<\/p>\n
“They’re going to hurt the business, and they have families that they got to feed. And people that worked here are going to lose their job,” said Ricardo Rivera.<\/p>\n
On the other side of Park Ave along east 116th street is City Fresh Market, a clean, well-stocked, 24\/7 grocery store that’s been feeding the neighborhood for decades. They fear their cash registers would sit empty if a taxpayer funded store opens within walking distance and cuts into their already slim profit margins.<\/p>\n
Two lawsuits were filed on Monday against the Mayor’s plans, claiming it would ruin small merchants, the very backbone of the city.<\/p>\n
Mamdani insisted there’s plenty of customers for everyone.<\/p>\n
I continue to be fully confident in both the legality and the importance of our initiative to deliver five city-run grocery stores, one in each borough, to the people of our city,” he said.<\/p>\n
One shopper said she does welcome cheaper prices but not at the cost of putting others out of business.<\/p>\n
“That’s not normal. It should be fair competition,” said Elizabeth Girodes.<\/p>\n
The first city-subsidized store is supposed to open in the Bronx next year, followed by the rest of the boroughs by 2029<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of supermarkets, grocery stores and bodegas are suing New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19865,9,24,56,63,65,64,123724,123723,123509,82],"class_list":["post-329029","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-ricardo-rivera","tag-store-opens","tag-unfair-competition","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329029","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=329029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}