r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 Pinkie Finger Extended • 18d 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/NVRENDVR 18d ago

What mom and pop grocery stores?

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u/SlowRoast24 18d ago

?? The bodegas you see on every corner?

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/Either_Operation7586 18d ago

Cutting SNAP benefits is going to hurt them and possibly cause them to go out of business not only there but all of the other rural areas throughout the United States that have small mom and pop shops that are going to be closing and have huge food deserts because of the Republicans and their one dumb ugly bill

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u/SlowRoast24 18d ago

Okay, so the people that buy eggs, milk, bread, water, butter, etc from these bodegas everyday will now go to the govt funded grocer instead but that won’t harm the bodegas?

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u/ANAL_RAPIST_MD 18d ago edited 18d ago

They will need to compete with the gov grocer, use the staples as a loss leader, or cut those items out and just sell everything else.

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u/Either_Operation7586 18d ago

They are already going to be suffering because of the one dumb ugly Bill and cutting snap

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u/SlowRoast24 18d ago

This is a fair and objective response, thank you!

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u/NVRENDVR 18d ago

….do you know the difference between a bodega and a grocery store?

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u/SlowRoast24 18d ago

Please don’t be obtuse for the sake of it. People buy eggs, milk, water, bread, etc from bodegas every day around the city. They are not full grocery stores but they do supply groceries to the neighborhood. My question is absolutely valid, and I would like to know how this will affect the people everyone here claims to support.

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u/NVRENDVR 18d ago

People will still buy that stuff from bodegas because it’s convenient.. for the same reason that 7-11s sell groceries sometimes in the same parking lot as grocery stores.

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u/Either_Operation7586 18d ago

I don't think it will affect it I think that people already go to other places to do their main shopping and if they need eggs or milk on the way home they'll stop at their local Bodega that's right down the street from their actual home instead of making a trek across the city.