Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's plan for city-owned grocery stores faces criticism from economists and business leaders.

For decades, the American playbook for bringing groceries to underserved neighborhoods has been simple: offer tax breaks to supermarket chains and hope they sign up.

As food costs climb and public trust in private solutions falters, a government-supported grocery model is moving from fringe ...

For decades, the American playbook for bringing groceries to underserved neighborhoods has been simple: offer tax breaks to supermarket chains and hope they sign up. But as food costs climb and public ...

The Mamdani campaign has not indicated that the government-run stores would be limited to low-income residents. But Hamza’s response points to a deeper obstacle: opening municipal groceries would not ...

New York City—where takeout is a food group and ovens are for storing clothes—may soon get into the grocery business. If he wins the general election this November, Zohran Mamdani, the new ...

Zohran Mamdani, the favorite to become New York City’s next mayor after winning the Democratic primary, has a contentious plan to create a network of city-owned grocery stores to offer lower ...

Mamdani’s victory, on a platform consisting of a laundry list of far-left agenda items, including city-run grocery stores, defunding the police, safe injection sites and raising the minimum wage ...

Mamdani’s proposal for publicly owned grocery stores is also far more rational and modest than the state-monopoly model of liquor stores: He’s merely proposing a pilot program of just five ...

Zohran Mamdani thinks he can pay for his socialist grocery stores by cutting subsidies. That's because he doesn't know what he's talking about.