Okay, okay, hear me out. Got an idea for Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.

Critics point out that grocery margins aren’t so high, so there’s not much room for price improvement. But maybe we can look at it from a different angle.

If you know cooking, you know that if you want the highest quality-to-price meat and fish in America, you go to an East Asian grocer. Like, I was buying porkchops in Boston Chinatown back in 06, way before I ever had a wok.

Highest quality-to-price ground spices? Indian grocers, of course.

Highest quality-to-price chili peppers? Mexican.

So. Take one large space - in one building, put in a Chinese grocer, Indian grocer, Mexican grocer, Thai grocer, Italian grocer. And so on and so forth. Leverage those existing supply chains

Give the normies a nice environment and little English-language guides. Give the stores themselves all cheap or free rent in exchange for a percentage of revenue

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