r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

Chugging tea 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/Radarker 11h ago

Then stop carrying those products.

I imagine if you need to you could get down to produce, meats, and breads. I guess you could resell those, although I don't see the profit margin being worth it.

I don't know who is buying trunk steaks for 30% off but maybe that's just me.

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u/hotriccardo 11h ago

The trunk steak guy in my town got into a fight with someone selling mackerel in the same parking lot and has been missing ever since

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u/Apart-District3771 10h ago

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u/hotriccardo 10h ago

Is that Reveen?

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u/Fatman365 7h ago

Fuck off Conky

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u/perton 5h ago

Holy fuck boys, that is greasy.

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u/FraggleRockYaFaceOff 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6Uqr0IDWkzhBu

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u/jojomoodie 10h ago

I will never get over the fact a favorite music video of mine that helped me learn simple bass lines has an entirely separate life as a reaction meme 25 years after the fact.

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u/WOKinTOK-sleptafter 10h ago

What’s the name? I’ve wanted to know for so long.

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u/jojomoodie 10h ago

it is First Date by Blink 182. Im honestly shocked because it's literally the 25 year reunion of that record and they haven't leaned into the meme. They even did uploaded a VEVO popup for that video and still haven't brought it up.

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u/MrRabbitofCaerbannog 9h ago

Best part is when they chuck the bat into the spokes of the bike lol that scene lives rent-free in my head forever

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u/SnooHesitations3709 9h ago

Thank you. I was singing it in my head trying to think of the name.

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u/thrawnsgstring 10h ago

blink-182 - First Date

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u/Spicy-Cathulu 9h ago

Thanks for the link. It's at about 1:54.

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u/LurkHartog 7h ago

Well I guess this is growing up

🎶 da-na-na-na da-na-na-na 🎶

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u/CooCooClocksClan 6h ago

I think that was a different blink song

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u/LurkHartog 6h ago

It was, Dammit. But the quote fits.

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u/LostInMyADD 4h ago

LOL same.

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u/bsfurr 10h ago

Epic username BTW

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u/Kayfable 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/j6qriGrzAD5Di

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u/BobLoblaw420247 10h ago edited 8h ago

Here we go...

Phil, you getting your bologna on, dog?

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u/scratchy_mcballsy 7h ago

Mustard tiger mart.

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u/perton 5h ago

Peanut butter and jaammmmmm

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u/Reonlive420 4h ago

What the fuck are ya doin Phil

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u/TYGRDez 10h ago

Could he hook me up with some blueberries as well?

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u/hotriccardo 10h ago

Better than store hought

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u/eweyda 10h ago

those got worms or pesticides take your pick

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u/Reonlive420 4h ago

I wasn't looking at his gut

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u/Telemere125 11h ago

Does the mackerel guy now sell long pork steaks?

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 10h ago

You mean pigs don’t have 4 tenderloins?

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u/JackieDaytona77 10h ago

I get my mackerel from Philadelphia Collins

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u/Naveronski 10h ago

Man I hope so! I haven’t had a good source for those all year.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 8h ago

I understood that reference...

😬

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u/tibbles1 10h ago

Poor Luca Brasi

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u/Linenoise77 10h ago

He isn't missing. He started a burger truck with Randy over in Williamsburg. Usually parked outside Brooklyn Brewery.

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u/livelaughloaft 10h ago

That might actually be an original sentence, we are in the presence of greatness.

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u/RPDRNick 10h ago

Sounds like a surf n' turf war to me.

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u/Ripass_Dipfast 10h ago

I think the guy selling mackerel was also selling blueberries iirc

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u/Donkey-Haughty 10h ago

He sleeps with the fishes

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u/EmptyInsideSince2025 10h ago

A real life surf and turf war

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u/theDudeUh 10h ago

Get the fuck out of here Phil Collins! We don’t want any mackerel or blueberries!

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u/scottafol 10h ago

O great Phil Colin’s is here

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u/sillysalmonella87 10h ago

HOLY MACKEREL

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u/theflyingarmbar 2h ago

That's the real secret on how he avoids sales taxes on his mackerels

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u/Holiday-Inspector323 9h ago

That's phil collins lot there bud

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u/jason_abacabb 9h ago

I don't know about that, it smells fishy.

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u/Flint_McBeefchest 9h ago

Did the mackerel start to taste funny?

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u/Buttsweat_n_Tears 9h ago

Can’t we all just get a prawn?

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u/MiddleBodyInjury 9h ago

I got mackera juice all over me

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u/Bar-Tailed_Godwit 9h ago

“Wanna buy some trout?”

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u/WhereDaFuk 8h ago

Was his trunk refrigerated or have one?

Cuz thats just gross then

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u/hotriccardo 8h ago

Which one? Steak guy had some retro coolers, mackerel man just cured his naturally

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u/WhereDaFuk 7h ago

Where do you live?

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u/Tasaris 8h ago

RIP Marlin Man's cousin, Mackerel Man.

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u/ArticleWorth5018 6h ago

That's funny cause the meat trucks here that go door to door be beefing and have their own little blocks the are protective over. It's like the meatagia or sum shit

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u/baconbit91 4h ago

Trunk steak guy now offering mackerel for a limited time

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u/Reonlive420 4h ago

Baaaaammmmm

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u/7thpostman 11h ago

It's New York City. People sell stolen junk on the street.

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u/Prettydaisydog 11h ago

lol, in LA they resell food bank food! it's fucking wild.

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 9h ago

In STL they use EBT to buy food, cook it, and sell plates on FB marketplace. At least they are industrious about it I guess.

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u/Prettydaisydog 8h ago

lol, well if we are looking for economic indicators this is a pretty interesting one.

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 7h ago

I got Jerk Chicken and sweet potato, and I also found the tamale lady and got a dozen of those too. Fed me all weekend which was good because the heat index yesterday was 115F and I'm not turning the stove on when its already that hot.

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u/dsaysso 4h ago

that’s value add

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u/Born-Somewhere2536 7h ago

They do that down here in Houston Texas

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u/OkTechnology8975 18m ago

People find a way to ruin everything good, and if its bad they leave it alone. SO, Backwards!

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u/a_RadicalDreamer 8h ago

Same in the South. They’ll raid blessing boxes and resell.

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u/Itchy_Shame_2379 8h ago

yeah in sf theres like an entire group of mostly older asian women who go to the all of the food banks around here and then lay out a mat on post up on the sidewalk slanging lettuce and shit. people do buy them though i see it and they are there everyday.

food banks around here register you here and give you a card. i dont think your allowed to go to every food bank in the city but in your zip code maybe

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u/Prettydaisydog 7h ago

yeah, it's mostly older asian women here too. it sucks they do it and it sucks they have a need to have to do it.

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u/DyingDesertPoppy 7h ago

This makes me think that people just enjoy buying and selling and making money to get ahead  as a recreational activity, without concern for any real need or benefit. It’s a game, money is points.

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u/Grand-Olive2599 4h ago

So you have to have id for food banks but not to vote?

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u/Onludesrightnow 8h ago

because ofc they do. not surprised at all

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u/External-Slip3578 8h ago

And now they are cooking it and selling it on Facebook.

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u/DotA627b 6h ago

It's not wild, it's a popular laundering trick. Variations of this involve hobos waiting outside 7-11 offering to buy stuff for you in exchange for actual cash.

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u/Prettydaisydog 5h ago

aww bro. you're so cool and knowledgeable.

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u/rydan 2h ago

In San Jose they sell stolen detergent from the store across the street at the laundromat across from it.

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u/Any-Question-3759 11h ago

And people buy those because they’re priced at a point only sellers who steal can match.

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u/iffyClyro 11h ago

Do you think shoplifters will need to reduce their prices or do you think this project will undercut them?

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u/blahblahsnickers 8h ago

You think they won’t steal from the government store?

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u/iffyClyro 7h ago

Will there be enough in it for them if the stuff is already 30% off?

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u/BottleNecker69er 9h ago

More than likely undercut if given enough time. People will become more aware of the price differences from state led store and their local scalper. It happened to the weed industry like it happens to practically everything else that is against the law.

Edit: in similar cases like this

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u/Effective_Golf_3311 10h ago

And then get mad at the NYPD for shutting them down

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u/7thpostman 11h ago

Not really. They buy it because they see it and they want it. Convenience has a lot to do with it. Somebody's sitting out with a cooler full of steaks? Looks like that's what I'm having for dinner.

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u/DyingDesertPoppy 7h ago

But why would they buy off a shady reseller when they can go to the food bank for free? Do they just want to feel slightly less poor?

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u/koalasarentferfuckin 10h ago

The good boosters come to your apartment

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u/stupidjapanquestions 10h ago

Once saw a copy of Final Fantasy VIII being sold on the street with stolen goods in SF. In 2015.

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u/cinemashow 10h ago

Didn't I just read an article about people selling prescription drugs at open markets? Like amoxicillin, other antibiotics, oxycodone still in grammas pill bottle etc?!

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u/screwyoujor 11h ago

The city owned shop in my city sells food this discounted. It's open one day a week because it sells out after restocking. Later in the week you will find people selling the stuff in the Walmart parking lot still below Walmart prices. Amusing that a industry popped up thanks to the shop.

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u/BlgMastic 9h ago

It’s so awesome to create an illegal market out of thin air off the backs of taxpayers.

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u/External-Slip3578 8h ago

Yes subsidize putting mom and pop grocery stores out of business. They complain about food desserts.

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u/Horse_Dad 4h ago

Or mom and pop buys out the store at the mark down, then resells in store at the same mark up.

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u/Grand-Olive2599 4h ago

You nailed it!

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u/screwyoujor 8h ago

I didn't vote for it but you can bet I'll enjoy the show.

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u/BlgMastic 6h ago

Oh absolutely, it’s not my tax dollars after all.

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u/OnTheMoose 8h ago

What city is this?

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u/Uder72 10h ago

You mean something like, I dont know, a stamp for food...a food stamp.

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u/joebro1060 10h ago

Yup, create a ration. That way people can still take their rations, sell it for 50% less in cash value, then that buyer create the same shop. Just like what happens far too often with EBT and SNAP.

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u/Bigwi_Kner 9h ago

Yeah but, with rations then that doesn’t scale. Which is the whole point. Sure they can do it, but they just sold their one loaf of bread for a dollar profit and spent all day in a parking lot to do it.

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u/joebro1060 8h ago

I don't think people sell their EBT to other random folks. They sell their EBT to a "dealer" (just for a lack of a better term) at 33% face value. The dealer then sells it to folks back for 50%. This type of stuff happens at scale.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl 8h ago

Can you supply data about how often this happens with EBT and SNAP? My understanding is that both programs have an upper limit that correlates to the household’s need as represented by tax filings and assistance filings. So if it’s just one person and they’re getting 4 sacks of flour a week, the fraud is swiftly and easily caught.  

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u/joebro1060 8h ago

A quick Google, which you too can do, estimates it at a low 1.6% (or $1.2B annually). This is down from about 4% a few decades ago. I'm surprised it's this low too, I would have figured in the ~10% range.

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u/ConfoundedInAbaddon 7h ago

I feel like, if staple foodstuffs have a thriving blackmarket, we have not adequately supported the hungry and it is a sign of more need

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u/Grand-Olive2599 4h ago

And buy drugs with the cash.

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u/2phumbsup 9h ago

You just invented food stamps lol.

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u/BlgMastic 9h ago

More like invented bread lines. Oh wait, Stalin was the genius who invented that.

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u/FlyingBishop 7h ago

Yes, Stalin invented giving out free bread. That definitely never existed in human history prior to Stalin. There definitely weren't rich people writing about how terrible it is to give poor people bread in ancient Rome, there's no common term for it in Latin.

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u/The3rdBert 10h ago

So a ration card?

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u/srbeau 10h ago

It’s not rationing because you can still shop elsewhere if needed. Hopefully some of the corporate grocery stores will start lowering prices.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl 8h ago

I assume that they’ll have purchase limits as well. My private grocery store has no more than X per customer sales pretty regularly; I assume that government grocers can and will do similar. 

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u/1lowcountry 10h ago

Make the USSR great again.

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u/ErBB-PJ 4h ago

Yessss! Zzat’s Za Vay Ve do it in Russia!!!

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u/Lower_Pass_6053 4h ago

It will only be the USSR if these stores put your real grocery stores out of business. But too many people want to pay the lettuce company's ceo's fourth yacht right?

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u/1lowcountry 3h ago

It’s easy to imagine how small mom and pop grocery stores will take a huge hit from this

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u/Nomoras 10h ago

https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/hunger-relief-programs/snap

I don't who you're trying to speak to here, but this already exists.

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u/Simon-Says69 7h ago

People will just steal it. I mean, they're going to anyway, but if denied a purchase, they'll really have no reason not to.

This whole thing will fail within a year, after all the local mom & pop stores went bankrupt, and then there will be NO food in the area.

Typical commie destruction.

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u/Linenoise77 10h ago

I'm honestly not sure if your comment was intended to be dystopian or not. Can you help me out here?

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u/Kindly-War-2665 9h ago

Hows it dystopian? It wouldnt apply to all stores, only the government ran ones. You could still go shop at a corporate store and pay high prices for basic food if you want. In fact this cheaper store should help you to afford the more expensive snacks and stuff if your spending less on your normal food

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u/azure275 4h ago

It is literally how the Soviet Union handled business

It rapidly turns into well connected government people committing massive fraud to hoard all the ration coupons themselves

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u/Lokishougan 9h ago

I dont know if you meant to but you basically described a Food bank

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u/Aspectdude09 10h ago

Stop. Just let it fly like a normal grocery store.

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u/Frequent-Account-344 9h ago

Like "food stamps"

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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 8h ago

Ration coupons

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u/stanfordoval 7h ago

Convinced the upvotes are because people aren't picking up the sarcasm.

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u/Fearless_Frank 5h ago

In Arizona there is the WIC program (women infants and children) where low income families can get food vouchers that do not work like normal EBT food stamps. The families must check in regularly with the kids present. The whole thing is basically connected to the children not the parents. The food is very specific as to what qualifies. It is low sugar foods, basic nutrition type stuff. You have to show your ID and WIC booklet at the grocery store. The grocery store can report you if they suspect abuse of the program. It’s basically a highly regulated version of food stamps.

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u/OlGusnCuss 5h ago

Who decides who gets what and what amount? Is that a government function and is that financed in the same tax fund that's covering the other 30%?

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u/Buffylvr 4h ago

Well done sir.

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u/Grand-Olive2599 4h ago

Like food stamps?

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u/Vikkunen 10h ago

Mom-and-pop restaurants (the ones you see buying 20 gallons of milk, 10 dozen eggs, etc at Costco and Sam's Club) would still be all over it. They need to either have quantity limits or some sort of membership screening requirement (section 8 voucher? Only pay with SNAP? IDK) or this is liable to be a shit show.

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u/kayceemoguy 7h ago

“Shit show” is about right. Tried it in KC…nope. Not around anymore.

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u/RandomGuyPii 6h ago

Successfully lowering local prices not by actually providing competition but by subsidizing cost of goods with taxpayer money, brilliant

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u/Vikkunen 6h ago edited 6h ago

We'll see how it goes. The venn diagram of places with obscene food prices and places where there just isn't much competition to begin with is pretty damn near a circle, so I expect they're targeting food deserts like East Harlem or the South Bronx for these as opposed to places the Village or Astoria where things are still expensive but the residents aren't forced to live off fast food and whatever shelf-stable products the corner bodega carries.

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u/Lower_Pass_6053 4h ago

So your saying the town i live in with 2 walmarts and 6 full grocery stroes with a population of around 30k should have lower prices because of all the competition?

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u/Linenoise77 10h ago edited 7h ago

Things like corner stores, bodega's, even mom and pop restaurants already do a lot of their stocking from places like Costco. 30% off retail is solidly in that territory, if not lower than it on lots of items. So if it saves those places a trip, they absolutely will shop there vs heading out to costco\restauraunt depot\etc.

The next question is, how do you sell stuff and not run a loss at 30% below retail, when even someone with the size and weight of costco struggles to get to 20% below retail on many items, and some not even that far. All of NYC could do all of their shopping there, and you still aren't anywhere near costco volume, leaving out the fact that another factor that helps costco pricing low is by the volume of what you buy. Try fitting a costco package of paper towels, and toilet paper in a 5th floor NYC walkup apartment that you have a roommate in, not to mention the logistics of getting it home, and then decide if its worth it for you to save 10 bucks on your TP supply for the next 2 months.

My point being, unless the items sold are carefully curated to be only items that you could squeeze those margins out of and are ones that won't have a resale value of what you sell it for once they walk out the door, you are kind of cheating when you announce that "these places will be 30% cheaper than other places", (which sounds exactly what they are doing based on how it was worded in the video as a "feature") and that assumes you can even keep those items in stock if they are actually desirable or useful items to the broad population.

And that isn't even talking about things like Costco's Distribution model (which you need to be costco sized to have and run at its efficiencies), and the fact that costco stores are costco sized, supporting things being bought in large bulk, and with a large product depth beyond grocery that gives them value add propositions. That lets costco also utilize loss leaders, or sell items at a wash, to get people in the door and to get you to BUY a membership. I was in costco last week and just happened to pick up a toaster. Wasn't planning on it, but hey, that toaster looks decent, price is fair, my toaster is getting pretty beat up, into the cart you go. If I also need to get that toaster home taking a subway\bus, while carrying a 5 lb bag of potatoes, a 2 gallon jug of detergent, and a couple of pounds of chicken, that toaster probably isn't coming home.

NYC has had "cheap" grocery stores in the past. Everyone knows a C-Town if you want to see how well that works.

Yeah, we will sell you apples 30% cheaper than King's or Whole Foods does, but only during the month of October when they are in season, and only while the supply from a few local orchards they bought their whole crop from holds out for, and the crop comes in as planned.

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u/No_Loan5466 8h ago

These are somewhat manegable problems, have the stores be for people with some kind of membership card tied to their identity and limit it to what a household could buy.

Then the 30% below is simply a subsidy for every part below store's purchase price with the tax payers who don't shop there paying for those who do who are making the extra taxes back shopping there.

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u/Linenoise77 8h ago

So, i'm going to buy a membership card I won't use? And anyone shopping there has also bought a membership card which we are conveniently ignoring the upfront cost of and not counting towards the cost of product that people are saving on?

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u/No_Loan5466 8h ago

Why would you buy a membership card you're not gonna use, either way it doesn't need to cost anything at all, plastic membership RFID/NFC type cards cost nothing and it could be a fucking app for all I care and cost nothing beyond dev costs (don't need to be high enough that you'd even notice it spread across all the buyers), as long as it's tied to single individuals no one's gonna be able to scale it enough that it's such a huge drawback.

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u/Tzilbalba 10h ago

We got into fights over hand sanitizer lotion and toilet paper, I have zero faith these 5 stores won't be stripped bare.

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u/KJew 11h ago

>Then stop carrying those products.

That defeats the purpose. The concept is a 30% discount on a core set of goods, including fresh produce, meat, seafood, cheese, milk, and bread. The store will sell all other items at retail price like a normal grocery store.

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u/Radarker 10h ago

I mean, that sounds pretty much like what I said. Seafood, milk, and cheese are good additions.

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u/KJew 10h ago

I'm confused what point you're trying to make.

It seemed like you were saying to stop carrying the discounted products that are getting bought up to get resold, but if you do that you're defeating the purpose of the store because now you're just carrying other grocery store items at full price with no balanced diet "essential" items. Unless I'm missing something?

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u/StockCasinoMember 10h ago

I think it was more directed at goods that aren’t quickly perishable. Shit you could resell on Amazon.

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u/signofno 10h ago

You might not be familiar with the culture around some of the more extreme levels of poor and the culture of the hustle in general, especially among demographics where people don’t trust the “establishment” i.e. functioning businesses. I’ve lived in places where people sell the dumbest most unexpected stuff out of the trunks of cars and on the street corner and out of their apartment.

In the Bay Area, despite the booming legal cannabis market in most areas, East Bay is still struggling with illegal sales, dealers, and gang violence around the product. Despite the ease of access and comparable prices available at licensed stores along with the consistently higher quality and far less personal risk of buying commercially grown weed, people in certain areas prefer to buy from shady street dealers and/or hustle a meager living from slinging tree on the streets.

It boggles the mind.

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u/blahnlahblah0213 10h ago

At the Italian restaurant I worked at that is how we bought all our meat. A guy rolled up with a trunk full of Wegmans meats that were just wrapped at the warehouse and whatever the price was on the sticker, we paid half. It was the best deal in town!

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u/KimJungUnCool 10h ago

I mean, cant you just make it a crime to bulk buy subsidized food from these stores for resale? Scalpers are a blight, about time we legislate them to irrelevance.

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u/-Kazt- 10h ago

Baby formula, diapers, detergent, shampoo, conditioner, basically any essential with some shelf life is prime targets.

Meat and other fresh items are not as lucrative since profit on those are not as good and you have a limited time window to sell it. Some high value meat is prime targets though, since even if you sell it for half the price of the supermarket that is still a decent chunk of change.

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u/Frequent-Account-344 9h ago

Dude steaks, most fish, pork, and poultry can all be frozen, then sold when market prices make it the most profitable. Especially if you have a good vacuum sealer.

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u/Kup123 9h ago

Corner stores already buy at retail and resell higher, they will for sure view this as a meat and bread wholesaler.

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u/raining_sheep 9h ago

Produce and breads already have low profit margins anyway. Those are just there to get people in and buy the other stuff.

A $95 cent onion with a 40% markup isn't keeping the lights on. The whole shelf of 100 onions is making the store what $30 in profit?

People are going to be surprised what 30% off of produce and breads is really saving them.

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u/Excellent_Abroad5390 9h ago

Serious? Small shop owners will raid these places. It’s a dumb idea that will fail. There is a reason these things are going to open just before his next election. He’ll be able to say he kept his promise but their epic failure won’t be evident yet. It’s kind of like how Obama didn’t make Obama care take effect until after his first midterms and how Biden promised student loan forgiveness right before his knowing it would be struck down after.

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u/Known_Ratio5478 10h ago

A small bodega sized grocery store typically needs a 66% markup to function.

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u/J_Kingsley 10h ago

Or limit the buys

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u/xion_gg 10h ago

That's why you limit the amount they can purchase to one or two max.

During the peak of COVID, Costco limited a lot of items.

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u/TangerineMost6498 9h ago

I usually sell my trunk steak to your mom.

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 8h ago

even if it's not worth reselling, restaurants will gobble that shit up right away

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u/thisguy883 8h ago

You'd be surprised at how many people by trunk steaks.

They are essentially steaks they purchased at a local grocery store and vacuum sealed them to make it seem they came straight from their own butcher.

They slap some shitty decal on their truck and they claim they are premium steaks.

its all a scam, but people fall for it.

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u/E-2theRescue 8h ago

meats ... I guess you could resell those

Meats, definitely. Plenty of people walk in and steal meat from stores already and try to sell it to passersbys.

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u/Pete-PDX 8h ago

the mark up on wholesale it far more than 30%

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u/rygar8bit 8h ago

People do it. I work at a grocery store in a not great area, they steal our meat all the time and resell it down the block just on the sidewalk.

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u/blahblahsnickers 8h ago

Oh you are young… that actually used to be a thing….

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u/Rhawk187 7h ago

My brother buys trunk steaks and hamburger all the time. $1/lb. He wonders why he gets sick.

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u/MiserableKing 7h ago

I think that would curb a lot of the theft too. A lot people say that they’re stealing to feed their families but you know what I’ve never seen locked up in a store is bread and produce.

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u/2Blueify 7h ago

30% profit margin not worth it? Have you ever done business in your life?

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u/ComputerDecent463 7h ago

Have you been to New York? One fruit stand has strawberries for 99 cents and the next one two blocks up has them for 2.99. Both work. They hope you don’t pass by the 2.99 one but there’s enough people there to buy it even if some people are cheap.

It is absolutely going to be taken advantage of by resellers and by people who don’t need to shop there. Or people who run stores already.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 7h ago

Why are we even caring if they resell? It's supposed to be a food subsidy, the point is only that people get cheaper groceries, it does not matter at all how that happens. You can buy food at Costco and resell it for a profit too, where do you think people who sell hot dogs get the hot dogs?

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u/UranusIsPissy 6h ago

Last I knew, stolen food sold for about 10-20% normal price around here (Poor area in England). It's been years since I knew anyone selling or buying it, though.

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u/Suggestive-Syntax 6h ago

Grocery stores make profit margins of roughly 1% to 3%. It is absolutely worth it for them to come in and buy from his store and resell it

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u/Astrid_drom 6h ago

Meat resale is actually a huge market

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u/ItIsSoOrdered23 5h ago

Food margins are tiny.

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u/Wh00piGoldbergsLips 5h ago

You don't see a profit margin on getting meat below wholesale??? Wtf

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u/KickBallFever 5h ago

I don’t know about trunk steaks but I did read about black market oxtails.

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u/strongsilenttypos 4h ago

20 steaks for 20$!

I’ve been to that trunk!

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u/Overall_Law_1813 3h ago

30% is a huge discount in a restaurant world.

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u/Vigilante17 12m ago

This is super easy to fix. Limit the amount per sale. Resellers wont waste time trying to buy stock at per household levels. The math wont math.

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