Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s press conference this week on his planned state-run grocery stores. The plan is a multimillion-dollar version of the $5 gold watch grift. The chumps are New York taxpayers who believe that Mamdani can sell them produce at a discount of 30 percent below the market rate and not lose money. Indeed, this could end up the most expensive produce in the Big Apple.
Here is the column:
Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s short stint as a faux president ended with an embarrassing acknowledgment that he could not, as promised during his campaign, arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
So, this week, Mamdani the Grocer made a reappearance, with details on the five city-run grocery stores that he will open.
But rather than deliver discount groceries, Mamdani is selling New Yorkers a bill of goods that will cost them millions.
What Mamdani described was a discount food bank dressed up as a grocery. Standing in front of blackboards saying “REDUCED 30%,” Mamdani sounded like a bodega hawker: “Once a month, our five city-run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices. No exceptions, no gimmicks”
Here’s the most delicious part: the presser was a gimmick from beginning to end.
The mayor promised that “The savings will last for the entire month. That means no weekly fluctuations or sticker shock at the checkout line — not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the parents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay.”
The Mamdani markets are new variations of an old New York grift: selling gold watches for $5. The dupes want to believe that somehow this street vendor, surreptitiously displaying watches inside his overcoat, actually found a way to sell “solid gold watches” for just a few bucks.
The math simply does not add up for Mamdani. Most groceries have an average profit margin between 1% and 3%, one of the smallest margins of any industry.
To promise a 30% discount below market rate that cannot be adjusted due to monthly market fluctuations is economically absurd.
It is not a description of a competitive grocery but a public charity. It is a quasi-food bank where taxpayers subsidize the cost.
As usual, Mamdani turns this into a class war, demonizing business owners. He suggests that real grocery stores are simply price gougers hoarding windfall profits from consumers. He ignores that they must pay rent, upkeep and fees — all things the city-run stores may simply write off.
He proclaimed, “May the most affordable grocery store win.”
Of course, the test is not which grocery is the most affordable, but which is the most sustainable. If you are willing to take a bath on sales, you can always offer the most affordable prices for as long as your excess cash holds out.
In Mamdani’s case, he has the credit of New York City to draw on to compete against Mom-and-Pop bodegas.
The subsidy, however, is only part of the costs. The average bodega owner must cover the fixed costs of renting a space, building the store, and complying with inspectors. Those are the fixed costs that must be internalized into the cost of produce to break even.
Real stores are competing in one of the tightest markets in the world and are grappling with a 33% nationwide increase in costs since 2019. Mamdani wants to use the stores to prove that socialism works as part of his effort to introduce New York to the “warmth of socialism.” We may never know the real costs of the Mamdani markets.
According to the New York Post, the city plans to open an East Harlem location as its first store, at a reported cost of $30 million.
However, that is not the full cost. The Post also reported that the city had already appropriated $25 million to improve the first site. The city will lose millions that could have been acquired through a sale of the land or through rents to private companies. Those costs are left on other ledgers and not likely counted in the true costs of the Mamdani markets.
The first store will not even open until 2027 despite the props behind Mamdani. The second Manhattan store will not open until 2029. That is three years and tens of millions of dollars for just the first two stores.
That is how Mamdani is promising New Yorkers savings of “$90 a month, or roughly $1,000 a year.” He is using the city to subsidize food under the guise of selling at low, but still profitable prices. Ironically, those who can take advantage of the subsidy at the first two stores in Manhattan will be anyone, including the privileged, wealthy New Yorkers whom Mamdani denounces for not paying their fair share. After all, everyone wants below-market-priced slices in the Big Apple.
The first city-run grocery, in East Harlem, will cost $30 million to build — and perhaps more. It will never need to pay this money back nor factor it into its prices. The “warmth of socialism” will cover it; that is, you.
In reality, Mamdani will be selling apples at a far greater cost than any competitor, but those true costs will be buried in the city budget and paid for by the taxpayers.
Indeed, the Mamdani markets are likely to prove the most expensive groceries in the city.
Mamdani, however, has never sweated the math or the means. He knows that the focus will be on the cash register price and not the true cost.
Of course, there is a big difference between the gold watch grift and the Mamdani grift: buying a knockoff watch only costs chumps a few bucks. The Mamdani con will cost New Yorkers millions, and most will thank him for it.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
From American Thinker: “Dave Rubin has pointed out, the goal of this program is to undercut and shut down privately-owned stores to ensure that the entire market is dominated by government-run outlets. So, with the shortages and rationing that always accompany socialism, what’s to stop people from hopping on the PATH train for Jersey City or Hoboken and doing their shopping there? What is Mamdani (or the central committee that takes over after he has been executed for neoliberal tendencies) going to do then? Set up checkpoints at the stations?
True, just as the covid LOCKDOWN intentionally hit business.
#. These stores aren’t paying property taxes, right? That’s a 30% or greater drop in cost?
Meanwhile there is a megalomaniac, cut from the same authoritarian “red” cloth as Mamaboydani, getting skewered by Republicans in the US Senate Homeland Security Hearing for all of the right reasons. Anthony Fauci destroyed his medical legacy today when he refused to look at the visitors in the Senate chambers when they got up from their seats and stood so as to represent those Americans who suffered harm under Fauci’s edicts. Senator Bernie Moreno asked visitors to the hearing to stand if they were forced to wear masks, take the vaccine, suffered repercussions for voicing an opinion contra Fauci, lost their jobs, etc. When they stood Fauci refused to turn around and look at them. He and Mamaboydani are two of a kind. Senator Moreno is no amateur and he did to Fauci what he has coming. If only Americans saw how Communist the Democrats really are in blue states
I hope he and Obama also answer for what they did to all those beagles.
May they rot in hell.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-07-28/faucis-diary-reveals-collusion-obama-debunk-beagle-torture-program
Estovir,
Watching Senator Hawley ask Fauci simple questions and Fauci invoke the fifth repeatedly was hysterical.
“What day of the week is it?”
“What color tie are you wearing?”
“What color is the carpet in front of you?” pic.twitter.com/WLaEOXd99u
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) July 29, 2026
@Estovir
Yup. That was a disgrace. But it was exactly what I and others expected, plead the fifth to quite literally everything, and he did.
No innocent person needs 12 attorneys. He will do a Hillary. The Nazis wished they had these levels of a$$ covering. Disgusting. Ladies and gentlemen, we officially have a new Angel of Death, and one that will simply get off, Scot free. I think when the Biden cabal was in charge, Ted Bundy probably would have walked. This is where we are at with the modern left.
James.
You hit the nail on head.
As you so clearly observe, “No innocent person needs 12 attorneys.”
Quite obviously the more attorneys you hire, the greater your guilt.
Between 2021 and 2024, Trump hired hundreds of attorneys across more than 40 law firms.
I’m so glad that you are finally admitting that Trump is guilty of many, many crimes.
And I am sure that you recall Trump has stated numerous times that if you have to invoke the 5th, then that proves you are guilty.
And I am sure that you recall how Trump invoked the 5th 440 times in his deposition for the Letitia James case.
And I am sur that you recall how Eric Trump invked the 5th 500 times in the same case.
So they must be guilty of SOMETHING.
Right ????
Fauci the bobblehead is more evil and more successful at it than any James Bond or Austin Powers villain. He’s the Creator of Covid-19, a crime against humanity. He told us we might get AIDS from our children and two masks are better than one. He’ll find pangolin zero when OJ finds the real killer.
I expect damn mami to slow-walk all his socialist policies so that they don’t ALL go down at once and he can play communist dictator right up until the end.
He’s all talk because he knows it will fail.
Expect? Based on what?
Any investor knows creating a cost-benefit analysis is essential. It should include at least all future revenues, capital expenses, acquisition costs, and the more mundane things like insurance or replacement costs. We haven’t seen that because all costs are being paid by the taxpayers, and the income based on Mamdani’s projections is a loss.
For those approving Mamdani’s grocery stores, perhaps you can provide what you think would substitute for a cost-benefit analysis. If there is a cost to the taxpayer (there is tremendous cost), that should be revealed.
Communism never heard about this so-called “cost-benefit analysis” and they are uninterested in “learing” more. 😉
People do not use C/B analysis when they invest in a business, which is in this case is totally not applicable, because its a non-profit.
But, define invest? Stocks, bonds etc. Still not relevant to buying such instruments. Invest in a business? Everyone has different tools, but C/B is inapplicable.
Wanna tell us how you use C/B when you invest?
Wow. You don’t know anything. Even non-profits do C/B analysis. Why? It helps define how they will utilize their revenues from donations, for instance. Just because something is a non-profit does NOT mean it isn’t a business. This whole grocery store scheme is a true grift. That is all it is. It will never work. In order, for instance, for a “grocery store” to sell its produce 30% under the market…it has to have procured it at the wholesale level at 30% under the market, even to break even. This will NOT happen because of this…WHO is going to sell to these grocery stores at 30% discount? Answer; NOBODY. There is NOT a 30% mark-up in produce that can be taken back down due to a discount. I know. My family grew avocados in California for generations. The same 1-3% profit margin for grocers is similar for the producers. You must be a democrat. Only they have no sense of business.
The store doesn’t have to buy at a discount in order to sell at a discount. It will buy the produce at the same wholesale price that private stores do, and sell it at 30% less than they do, because it doesn’t have the expenses they do. When you don’t pay rent, taxes, city regulatory fees, interest, or a return to the owners, and you don’t have to worry about being harassed by city inspectors, you don’t need to include any of those things in your prices. And once private groceries have been driven out of business you have a monopsony and can screw your suppliers down till their profit margin is practically nonexistent. And when they fail too, you proclaim that this proves the superiority of socialism, and have the government take over the farms.
Well anon 11:59, you just got your ssA handed to you. LOL!
Land grab? Business grab? This is illegal.
Now, stop and think. While you’re doing that, name ONE N/P who uses C/B? Just one, not two or three. Just one. And documented. I’m assuming you worked at a N/P?
Of course non profits look at the cost based analysis. For example the Red Cross Blood center i worked for in the 70’s always added onto the cost to produce a fee for improvements to the center or a new center completely. Sometimes they spent the money appropriately sometimes not.
As to other non profits, if they do not take donations and how much to spend, how are they going to afford the salaries of the top people. Look at NPR, Planned Parenthood, Obama foundation, Clinton Foundation and such.
“People do not use C/B analysis when they invest in a business”
You must have graduated from Harvard Business School. Do you use a divining rod?
“n this case is totally not applicable, because its a non-profit.”
Not true.
Stock market: Do you pay attention to the P/E?
“Wanna tell us how you use C/B when you invest?”
Cost-Benefit Analysis
I hope you know how to zip your pants up.
There must always be a scapegoat. In Russia the farmers in the Ukraine were blamed for the failing economy. They were peasants but Stalin said they were the evil rich because they were the only people in the nation who might eat on a regular basis. So what was Stalins solution? He confiscated the land and sent city dwellers into the fields. These city slickers had no idea how to farm the land. The result was a famine and 30,000,000 people died of starvation. Mamdani being a Communist like Stalin says, oh well to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs. It turned out that after a while there were no eggs left to break. Stalin’s response. Oh well, a few heads will do just fine. Dumb down the population and you get Mamdani. Send the socialist teachers into the schools and in one generation you get Mamdani and AOC. Mission accomplished.
Communists never have any troubles because they can solve all their problems with your death. Or so they believe.
Very stupid comment, but par for the course.
” In Russia the farmers in the Ukraine were blamed for the failing economy.” Really, and you experienced that first hand? Read Pravda?
The guy selling the five dollar gold watches knows that most people would know it was a scam. He sold them because he knew that the people who bought them believed that the good fairy had waived her magic wand to change their fortunes. They say, oh please, oh please Mr. Mayor waive your magic wand and make me happy. Usually such wishers remain as a minority but in New York City believers in the beautiful fairy have become the majority. Sooner or later the wicked witch of the north Bronx must make an appearance to make the play complete. We all should know but many do not know how the story always ends. Mamdani is right about one thing. In New York City theirs a sucker born every 15 seconds.
What nonsense.
The guy selling the five dollar gold watches expects his marks to believe that they’re genuine but stolen. Of course he doesn’t say they’re stolen, but that’s the implication that he’s deliberately transmitting, and that he expects them to understand. He’s preying on their willingness to buy stolen goods.
Thanks
This idiot Damned Nanny is going pall-mall down the same destructive road that every other Marxist experiment in history has traveled, but is apparently too stupid and/or narcissistic to see that clearly. Or he doesn’t really care how many of his constituents he hurts, or how badly he hurts them, to fuel his political rise. My bet would be on the latter proposition, but YMMV…
/|\ that was me, I Don Wannutono. I thought I attributed that, but evidently not /|\
Mamdani is mayor of NYC. You, disease ridden mouse living in a trailer?
WE now are witnessing the birth of the “Islammunists”. If the rest of us that are true Americans handle this correctly, we may watch the Communists and the Islamists eat each other.
Any govt run stores are not going to beat Aldi or Lidl. There are 11 Aldis in NYC.
Any? You got factual proof? Lay it out for all to see.
Let’s see, 8,800,000 New Yorkers, 5 city-run grocery stores selling produce at 30% below market cost. That’s 1,760,000 New Yorkers per store. What could possibly go wrong?
Give an idiot math skills and get an idiot with math skills.
That will only “prove the need” for more such stores, especially when all the privately-owned stores are driven out of business. As everyone is driven into the communist system to avoid starvation, too many will see it as their savior rather than as the cause of all their trouble in the first place.
So millhouse
What happens when the grocers tire of this unfair competition and join in giving the wholesaler a boycott mandate that addresses unfair competition to adust price to government stores at 30% higher? Of course this 30% increase would be due to the burdens imposed by government contracts and state/city procurement regulations and laws. The grocer’s allegiance would undoubtedly have far more impact on the wholesaler than this NY Commie Mook.
What happens then is that they get prosecuted for collusion, and get driven into bankruptcy and then thrown in prison. And the suppliers are told point blank that if they comply with the demand they too will be prosecuted. The result is that the government is left with both a monopoly and a monopsony, and can then do whatever it likes. Everyone is dependent on the government to avoid starvation, so they are forced to go along and not protest. And we have the socialist heaven, a la Pol Pot.
Oh yeah, I guess kind of like the longshoreman or the NY City trash collectors…
There’s the way things should be and then there’s the way things are.
Mamdani’s grocery stores may end up being his version of Gavin Newsom’s high speed rail. Eight years from now when he is term limited out and talking about running for Senate, the groundbreaking on the land they purchased for the store will allegedly be just around the corner. The issue here bigger than Socialism, is narcissism. It is part and parcel with his entire generation of over-educated morons who have no idea how to actually DO anything, nor how anything works. This clown wouldn’t know how to acquire and assemble the shelving units for the store let alone purchase the food products, setup a point of sale system, etc.
8 years? Probably more like 3. The stores will get delayed, he makes excuses, and then in 2028 Mamdani challenges Chucko Schmucko. If he waits 8 years the NY voters will be totally sick of him. He has to move upward before that.
It won’t matter how far out, the fund will have been depleted long before the first brick is laid. It’s the Democratic way!
Chuck rips the whirlwind of flatulence.
” This clown wouldn’t know how to acquire and assemble the shelving units for the store let alone purchase the food products, setup a point of sale system, etc.”
Couldn’t find his own buttocks with both hands, a hunting dog. and the Home Guide to Proctology, Revised Edition? 😎
As for buttocks, time you pulled your head out of yours.
Will it be a crime if people shoplift from these stores?
“Will it be a crime if people shoplift from these stores?”
For some, that could be construed as merely reclaiming the taxes that were stolen from them ;>}
Only if they are White and Christians.
All you At the BAR three for a dollar!
I only hope, as a resident of Northern NY, that Blakeman wins only so that he can deny any state aid to mamdani as that city descends into a socialist dystopian nightmare. I do think the only way to reach the morons that voted for this scheister/islamist/communist is with a heavy dose of reality to let them experience what a city is like without all of the funding provided by taxpaying capitalists who fled the city and a block on state aid from Albany. Even then, I am certain that these mentally deficient pseudo-commies will blame Trump.
Since you do not live in NYC,, what business is it of yours what happens there? You gave up on NYC. Right? Or just playing Karen today?
It’s whimsicalmama’s business, since it’s her taxes that would be used to bail the city out. And because the governor has the power to remove the mayor.
You truly show your Karen side each day, in addition to showing your ignorance of government and taxation.
In October 1975 New York City went insolvent. There was high inflation. Sound familiar? The city’s lender banks cut it off from from credit. NYC had profligate spending practices. Sound familiar? President Ford first said no to federal bailout loans, then relented. Loans financed in US BONDS we out- of -state taxpayers have to repay for Helping New York. 34 year old Mamdani was 7 years old in 1998 when the family moved from Uganda to New York. I don’t think he knows or cares about the discipline of 1975. I do think he sees both his New Yorkers and all of us as chumps. He might better give thought to who sits in the White House today.
I’ve watched this play out before. San Diego floated a billion dollar bond for education, and the moment it passed, contractors came out of the woodwork angling for a piece of it. That’s with a bond, voter approved, terms disclosed up front.
This has none of that. No bond, no vote, just an announced $30 million construction budget and a promise. If a fully disclosed bond still draws that kind of scramble, what happens with capital spending that never had to clear that bar, and so far has no published audit or change order oversight?
Not an accusation. A structural observation. Low disclosure and no defined watchdog is exactly the environment fraud grows in.
“the environment fraud grows in.”
That description could reasonably be applied generally to government, the way it is typically run.
San Diego use to be a pretty conservative city, but the 1990 came and it changed. None for the better
So what happened exactly?
Dustoff, fair point on the shift, and it’s worth looking at what that shift actually produced. San Diego Unified’s school board has been solidly Democrat-aligned for the whole run of these bonds, every seat, backed by the teachers union and the local Democratic clubs, with the rare Republican challenger losing. So this wasn’t oversight split between parties. One political coalition has controlled the money and the board the entire time.
And the return on $11.6 billion in bond spending since 2008: math proficiency district-wide is still around 45%, reading around 56%. That means close to half the kids in one of the best performing large districts in the state still aren’t proficient in math after nearly two decades and eleven and a half billion dollars in facility bonds. The district’s own facilities condition index is still rated “poor.” A county grand jury this year found the district stonewalled document requests during an audit and kept asking voters for new billions while sitting on billions in unissued bonds from the last round.
That’s the model. One party, full control, no real check, and the outcome the bonds were supposed to buy never showed up. Worth keeping in mind before anyone assumes a government-run program with even less oversight than this one is going to turn out better.
You say the grand jury did that this year, or last year? I noticed a grand jury report on that topic from last year. California’s civil grand juries often do good work, but they do investigations, not audits, and the members of the grand jury are laypeople who may or may not understand all of the issues.
You say the school district was “sitting on billions of unissued bonds”, but that just means bonds were authorized by voters, not that they’ve gone ahead and borrowed so there’s anything to “sit on”. It’s normal to issue bonds after they have a construction contract. Same as public companies: they always raise their authorization to issue more shares before they completely use up their old authorization.
Elections for California school trustees are nonpartisan, so no one runs as a Democrat even though they might be registered as such and you can easily find out. When Chicago is in the news, you might notice that the mayor bosses the school superintendent and the police chief. But California school districts have been a completely separate hierarchy from the political jurisdictions ever since statehood.
If math and reading proficiency is poor, that’s bad so there’s room for improvement, but to say improved performance is “the outcome the bonds were supposed to buy” is to ignore all of the other factors that go into school performance.
🤣🤔Now do NYC.
Sure, Prof. Turley’s post is about Mayor Mamdani, but you’re the one who went off on some ten-year-old exposé about San Diego school bonds. And I know a lot more about California school bond measures than government-run grocery stores!
We’re within the filing period for local candidates and measures, so shouldn’t you be helping good folks get elected or writing arguments against bad tax measures for the voter guide this fall?
Game. Set. Match.
Who, What, When, Where, and Why? You sure left a lot of gaps in you alleged reporting of a non-event.
BTW, Mamdani is using tax revenues to pay for the project. Not bonds. The NYC comptroller said so last week.
Call it a non-event if you want, but a four-month Voice of San Diego investigation found campaign donors to school bond measures landing the construction contracts in 13 of 17 districts since 2006. That got the state treasurer on record about it. A taxpayer group sued the district over misuse of Prop S money. A county grand jury just this year found the district stonewalled document requests during an audit. That’s not nothing, that’s a paper trail.
Here’s why it matters for NYC. San Diego’s bonds had an Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, mandatory annual audits, and a fraud hotline, real structure, on paper, and it still leaked that badly. This grocery program has none of that structure at all. No bond, no oversight committee, no disclosed audit process, no published contractor bid trail. If the system with guardrails still had problems, what’s the system with no guardrails going to look like. That’s the relevance. I didn’t bring up San Diego to change the subject, I brought it up because it’s the closest real world test case we’ve got for what happens to public money once contractors smell the announcement.
OLLY,
Good points.
I would argue this system is designed with no guardrails intentionally to keep things like like oversight, disclosure audits, losses, costs, etc. hidden to make it appear it is a success.
That is, even if this goes forward. Reading a group of grocers, bodegas, have formed a new group and are planning on suing NYC/Mamdani.
Good for them Upstate. Doesn’t matter if the missing guardrails were deliberate or just an oversight nobody thought through. Either way the effect is the same. No bond, no vote, no disclosed audit trail, no published contractor bids. Whether that’s designed to hide the losses or just built without anyone asking the hard questions first, taxpayers end up in the same spot, on the hook with no way to check the math until the bill’s already due.
Upstate, here’s the harder question. Does a citizen actually formed for self-government support this as designed? No. Self-government trains you to demand the mechanism before you accept the outcome. This program asks for support before it discloses the mechanism. Whoever backs it as-is, regardless of party, has already accepted “government provides, I don’t check” as the deal. That’s the subject’s posture, not the citizen’s. This isn’t about who benefits. It’s about who’s still willing to ask what it costs and who’s accountable for it.
Now I gotta say something about the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee concept. It came from California’s Prop 39 in 2000. Schools were having trouble getting bond measures passed with a 2/3 majority required, so the law was changed to require just 55% for school bonds only. To get people to vote for Prop 39, it added these citizen oversight committees for every school bond measure. It’s extra bureaucracy for every district. The committees are never truly independent because they’re appointed by the elected trustees, and they have no separate authority to spend a nickel on accountants or lawyers to help them do true oversight. School boards understand, so they make use of the citizens oversight committees to do “outreach” (formerly known as PR). Now other districts establish citizens oversight committees for their tax measures too, with all of the attendant bureaucracy, but no such committee can ever investigate as thoroughly as one single motivated individual using his or her own time and money.
BTW, Mamdani is using tax revenues to pay for the project. Not bonds.
That just makes it worse.
There is No such thing as 30% below cost free lunch. I’m wondering if maybe part of that 30% is from not selling Pork products at these places of….business?
First of all, of course the store will sell pork products. The idea that it won’t is just stupid.
Second, how can you possibly imagine that pork products have a lower profit margin than other products, such that a business can save money by not selling them? If that were the case then no one would sell them!
Third, the stores won’t sell at 30% below cost. They’ll sell at 30% below what everyone else charges. Everyone else has a markup of at least 100%, and generally even more, not because they’re greedy and raking in profits (they’re not) but because they have huge costs that these stores will not have. So they can pass on that “saving” to the customers.
The reason they won’t have those costs is because the taxpayer will have paid for things that other businesses have to pay for themselves, and the best part is that this taxpayer subsidy will be off the books, so on paper the stores will break even or even turn a “profit” and a “return” to the city, thus “proving” that socialism “works”.
“. . . core set of goods at *30% below* typical retail prices.” (Mamdani, emphasis added)
Wait a minute.
According to the Left, selling goods at below market price is “predatory pricing,” which is allegedly unjust and illegal. Why is it now okay when socialists do it?
Excellent point, Sam: predatory pricing. Such stores will push out other neighborhood stores, and the area will be far worse off. Finally, when the stores fail under their own weight, the area will have no grocery stores, while businesses hesitate to return and, when they do, are forced to raise prices for the capital to build new ones.
New York has done this type of thing countless times, costing the taxpayers tremendous amounts of money.
Yes, it is okay when the government does it, because the government is the people, and the people can do no wrong. The people are entitled to predate on private businessmen, who are inherently blood-sucking parasites and the enemies of the people. Read your Marx. And your Hitler.
Come On Man! Its the best of all Communist Worlds here! First, you do it “for the people” and at the same time make “the rich pay for it via FAIR SHARE” while running the filthy capitalist grocers out of town. Once the low IQ taxpayer/voter is dependent on the City Grocery Store now that a food desert has been created you can then means test grocery prices for filthy middle class and wealthy that are foolish enough to remain. NIRVANA ACHIEVED – after 2-3 city bankruptcies! BAH HAHA.
can they still shop lift for a 100% off retail…like normal?
Ouch! You’re becoming subtle in your old age 🙂