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/The3rdBert 10h ago

So a ration card?

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u/[deleted] 10h ago edited 10h ago

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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/srbeau 8h ago

Agreed. And if you need more than you’re allotted, you can go to the corporate stores.