Priceless: Immigrant-Led Business Group Delivers Brutal Message to Mamdani Over His Grocery Games

As we reported, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just dropped another extreme move that's raising a lot of questions. He held a press conference where he explained how the government grocery stores that he's going to set up are going to sell staples for 30 percent under retail.

The city was already estimating $70 million in taxpayer dollars to set up these stores. Then, if you are making them sell things at a loss, you're going to have to subsidize that with more taxpayer dollars, or take that money from another department. Then, too, there are all sorts of other issues: how many can you serve, you'd have to put restrictions on how much could be bought, or you would have empty shelves quickly, etc.

But as I noted in my earlier story, how is that going to affect the regular stores in the surrounding area of one of these government entities, you know, the real hard-working people who Mamdani claims he cares about?

Well, it turns out, just like me, those folks have big issues with Mamdani's move as well — and they're going to say it with legal action.

An immigrant-led business group is gearing up to sue New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial plan to open five taxpayer-funded supermarkets — claiming the $70 million project will create unfair competition for nearby stores, The Post has learned.
As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week — including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread – the Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group’s chairman Frank Garcia told The Post.

Garcia said, “The mayor doesn’t seem to want to sit down with us.” But Garcia nailed Mamdani, saying he “won’t be able to bully these lawyers we are going to bring in.”

MBC — formed earlier this year to create a unified front against Mamdani’s grocery policy — includes 50 chambers of commerce representing Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Jewish-owned businesses in New York.

So the actual working business people are delivering up a little reality to the socialist theater kid.

For example, there are five bodegas within a few blocks of the planned city store in East Harlem.

“Having items that sell for 30% less than our prices, means nobody will go to our stores,” Radhames Rodriguez, president of the United Bodegas of America told The Post.

The meetings the city has had with business leaders have only made them more uneasy when they were asked things like what their best-selling items were.

Good for this group. It's already hard enough to run a business. Then, the incredible irony is that you have the city itself undercutting you, while claiming they care about you. Of course, Mamdani couldn't even define what "working class" meant when he was asked.

Hopefully, the group can put him in check with their legal action. He certainly needs it.

Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.

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