Mamdani on Failed Gov’t Stores: Others Are ‘Considering’ It, ‘We Have to Prove’ It’ll Work
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” New York City mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) responded to a question on the failures of government-run grocery stores by stating that “we have to prove not only the efficacy, but the excellence of this idea, because, for every one example that you can point to, there is another of another municipality today considering opening a city-run grocery store.”
Host Abby Phillip asked, “xplain how this really would work, and why is the government a better solution for a lack of grocery stores, food deserts than just working with the private sector to have them do what they know how to do, which is, run grocery stores? What’s your answer to that?”
Mamdani responded, “There are more than a thousand grocery stores in New York City. I’m proposing creating five additional...
