Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One
Mamdani’s idea to only discount a “core basket” of products is also odd, since it leaves the door open for price gouging on noncore products. Operators will want to make higher margins on noncore items and create a two-tiered pricing model that has the potential to stigmatize value-conscious shoppers. The fastest-growing grocers in the United States are deep discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Walmart, and are known unequivocally for low prices across the store.
Despite its shortcomings, Mamdani’s public grocery sector plan is among the most compelling innovations in a food supply that is increasingly consolidated, expensive, corrupt, and lately, downright dangerous. And it aims to do one thing that much of the grocery sector, especially Mamdani’s critics, have lost the script for really well: to make good food affordable to all.
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