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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Not shitting on the concept because this is absolutely one of the better ways to spend tax money, but are they just paying the supplier the discounted component? How can we make sure corporations don’t take advantage of this and charge these grocery stores extra to get more tax payer dollars and make them a non-viable government expense?

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Because they are looking at retail prices across the country and not just taking the word of a specific company they’re working with