Socialist NYC Mayor Burns $70M On Grocery Stores Without Butchers Or Hot Food [DTugDCudowQ]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's five city-owned grocery stores are already a punchline — and they haven't opened yet. Officials are now admitting the $70 million taxpayer experiment won't include butchers, hot food, discounted soda, or much of anything people actually shop for. What remains is a government-curated "core basket" that makes no retail sense and less political sense, unless the goal was always to look like you're solving food access without actually doing it. The proof of concept doesn't exist. Seven subsidized grocery stores on Chicago's South and West Side just shut down — same pitch, same politics, same result. Grocery retail runs on two to three percent margins. You can't paper over that with a subsidy and a press release. These stores will hemorrhage money by the quarter until taxpayers get fed up and demand the plug be pulled, and the only question is how many tens of millions get torched before that happens. Governor Pritzker has his own grocery initiative in Illinois — another entry in the long catalog of politicians who confuse signing legislation with solving a problem that government intervention created in the first place. CHAPTERS 0:00 1:49 NYC Bets $70M on City Groceries 2:52 City Stores Promise 30% Monthly Discount 4:48 City Markets Won't Stock Full Selection 6:15 Subsidized Grocery Stores Are Already… 6:52 Partial Discounts Won't Change… 7:36 Chain Drugstores Failing Neighborhood… 9:09 Social Media Pans Mamdani's Grocery… 10:49 Taxpayer Money Is the Real Discount 12:24 Only Two of Five Sites Identified 13:26 Seven Chicago Save-A-Lot Stores Close 15:32 Chicago Blames Trump for Store Closures 17:44 $13M Subsidy Couldn't Save Chicago… Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that doesn't treat you like an idiot. Hit the notification bell — Sean will be there to podcast the day Mamdani's stores inevitably close, and it's going to be a glorious day. #NFRP #NYC #Mamdani 𝗚𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘+ 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 🌟 🛍️ 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 - 💬 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 our 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: 👍🏼 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗛 that 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 button & 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 for daily videos that dive into the latest news! 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗: 🔗 Rumble - 🔗 Facebook - 🔗 iTunes - 🔗 Spotify -