New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has said city-run grocery stores are an opportunity to address affordability and to give the public a choice.
  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    17 hours ago

    focusing on food deserts, or areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets,

    he isn’t out to take on the competition to ‘drive down’ prices, but rather to serve neighborhoods that have no stores…where you have to walk a half hour just to get a carton of milk and a loaf of bread.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      9·
      16 hours ago

      Oh, well if that’s the primary goal - to eliminate food deserts - then hell yeah. Makes total sense