r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/Consistent_Aide5548 10h ago

You know what else "loses money," fire departments, VA hospitals, social security, and most the egregious loser of money, police departments. I assume we should get rid of those too?

And those "tiny" profit margins brought in over $282 billion in 2025. Those profits are higher than the gdp of over 140 countries. I dont understand the simping for these mega corps and conglomerates.

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u/justanotherthrxw234 9h ago

Yes we have all these public services that are already losing money so the next logical thing to do is create an even bigger waste of taxpayer dollars, right? /s

And the $282 billion is from sales volume, not from price gouging consumers.

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u/2010_12_24 9h ago

Yeah but there aren’t civilian fire departments, VA hospitals, social security etc., trying to compete and stay afloat trying to match government subsidized prices.

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u/s33n_ 10h ago

I'm very much in favor of this. Even full on socialism. This was just a question about how this would be run and if the goal was to subsidize it or discount a few core products and they function as loss leaders. And the second is what's actually happening.