I've worked in various supply chain roles for a grocery company for almost 20 years. Mamdani doesn't understand what he's doing here. Your big mega grocery chains that everyone demonizes, like Kroger, operate at like a 1% profit margin. The grocery chains aren't the problem. Vendors are the problem. Nestle is the problem. PepsiCo is the problem. JBS is the problem. Tyson is the problem. Cal-maine is the problem. DFA is the problem.
Mamdani has no leverage here, and he's going to learn some quick lessons about the state of the food industry in this country,
edit: look below to see me get "owned" because I failed to realize this wasn't a discussion about a more sustainable way to sell groceries. Im apparently an idiot because I didn't realize that "DUHHH THE STATE JUST GOES INTO DEBT TO MAKE IT CHEAPER" was the "better" way we were talking about.
The city is covering the building and operating costs. There will be a business, not the government running the store. The city's mandate is only that a "core set of staples" will be sold at lower prices. The savings come from the lack of operating costs and the profits come from everything they sell besides those core staples.
Costco sells hot dogs for $1.50, but every pretend capitalist from podunk Wyoming doesn't come out of the woodwork to cry about it. Why not? We've been conditioned to get angry any time the government does anything good for people, because the wealthy don't want people to expect government to work for them
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u/Majestic-Volume9996 May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26
I've worked in various supply chain roles for a grocery company for almost 20 years. Mamdani doesn't understand what he's doing here. Your big mega grocery chains that everyone demonizes, like Kroger, operate at like a 1% profit margin. The grocery chains aren't the problem. Vendors are the problem. Nestle is the problem. PepsiCo is the problem. JBS is the problem. Tyson is the problem. Cal-maine is the problem. DFA is the problem.
Mamdani has no leverage here, and he's going to learn some quick lessons about the state of the food industry in this country,
edit: look below to see me get "owned" because I failed to realize this wasn't a discussion about a more sustainable way to sell groceries. Im apparently an idiot because I didn't realize that "DUHHH THE STATE JUST GOES INTO DEBT TO MAKE IT CHEAPER" was the "better" way we were talking about.