{"id":330269,"date":"2026-08-26T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330269\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:28:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-sued-by-business-coalition-over-city-owned-grocery-stores-operating-like-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330269\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Sued by Business Coalition Over City-Owned Grocery Stores Operating Like Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Multicultural Business Coalition filed two lawsuits in New York State court on Monday, August 24, challenging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s plan for city-owned grocery stores, New York Post reported.The Multicultural Business Coalition says the municipal stores would violate civil rights of &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of owners and that Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s city-owned grocery stores mirror Walmart-style discounting at 30% below market.A class-action filing represents owners from groups historically discriminated against, while a second suit argues the pricing rivals or exceeds Walmart.The group alleges the city skipped proper review, including land-use and impact studies, and asks the court to require an economic analysis.In July, Mamdani announced one city-owned grocery in each borough offering a core basket 30% cheaper, according to NYC.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Multicultural Business Coalition filed two lawsuits in New York State court on Monday, August 24, challenging New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19865,124318,9,49050,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-330269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-grocery-stores","tag-multicultural-business-coalition","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-state-court","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330269","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=330269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}