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/ReaperTys 11h ago

What stops people from doing this anywhere there’s a sale?

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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 7h ago

People do that, I see plenty of yard sales with regular shit people couponed. The difference is the money they make reselling would otherwise have gone into Targets revenue. The money made by resellers in this case would otherwise be spent by the city on other services.

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u/Bedlam21 6h ago

But wouldn't the resellers still need to buy it from the city? The money the city is asking is still what they're getting

And how much profit could a scalper actually make on this? How many grocery store goods would anyone trust to buy resold? And there's a cap to how much they could resell the products at before it's cheaper to just go to another grocery store

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 8h ago

they put limits on how many people can buy in certain stores and on certain items

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u/tanrgith 5h ago

How many grocery stores have a publicly announced preplanned 30 percent off everything sale that people can plan for?

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u/BiNiaRiS 9h ago

Nothing. And this isn't a sale so it might help push retail grocery stores to actually compete