FOX-
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create a network of city-owned grocery stores to drive down food costs is facing pushback from the industry, with the head of a Manhattan-based grocery chain threatening to sell or close the business if Mamdani is elected.
John Catsimatidis, the CEO of grocery chain Gristedes, found fault with Mamdani’s plan, saying the business couldn’t compete in the market if there are city-run supermarkets.
“If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” Catsimatidis told FOX Business. He will also contemplate moving his corporate offices to New Jersey. Catsimatidis said that he won’t make this decision after the primary election.
He has no choice
Potential Campaign Slogan???
No Imported or Domestic Food Deserts
Thoughts?
Too High for the Supermarket
Too High for the Grocery Store
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” -Karl Marx
And of course, the State determines both your ability and your needs. And who else should? You certainly can’t do it.
A former co-worker was originally from Russia.
She told me she would wait in line for hours just to get bread at the government bakery. Sometimes, they would sell out 2 people ahead of her. They would hand her a little card and told her to come back the next day and she could come to the front of the line. But there was a time limit. If she wasn’t there at WTF O’clock, she’d have to go to the end of the line again. She had a job and she went to school and she didn’t live close.
She then told me that if she sees a line that’s just 3 people deep, she still gets so aggravated. And that if anyone wants communism, they’re sick in the head.
Later, I had another co-worker from Kazakhstan. Her gov (also commie) paid for everything birth to death and persecuted whoever they felt like persecuting on a whim. She had a state job. They told her where to sit, where to stand, what and when to eat. SHE was “safe.”
She became a ‘refugee’ along with her parents and her son, and was brought to the US. Right off the bat they got food stamps, cheap rent, disability, so on… And when one of those checks had a time limit and they were cut off, she freaked out. She wondered why the government would do such a thing! I said because it’s not the government, it’s tax payer’s money. She thought I was lying. She actually thought the US government was paying for it, as if the government had a fucking job and it was giving her money directly from itself.
This is the left. Foreign and domestic. And sick in the head.
Like I posted earlier, I’m really hoping this guy gets elected. European’s are posting, look out, the first thing he will do is try and institute sharia law. Perfect. Let’s see how New York women react to that. Like they say, you can vote yourself into socialism but you gotta shoot your way out. Maybe that’s why he’s in favor of gun confiscation. Too much fun.
Who is John Galt?
That grocer is smart. He sees the writing on the wall and knows what will follow. Be the first to leave while your money is still intact. The left will do everything to bleed it dry.
It’s still too soon after the primary, but Polymarket shows 74% odds of the Hamas-loving socialist beating out Eric Adams and the rest. We shall see.
https://polymarket.com/event/new-york-city-mayoral-election?tid=1750988011047
Meanwhile in CA(WA too), conservatives are in the pot on slow boil. They poke their claws up over the edge of the pot and lament OMGoodness, maybe we are gonna need to shoot our way out.
Well past time for those with the wherewithall to execute Matt Brackin’s tried and true.
It’s down to that on the left coast.
MMinWA
I attended a RSVP event with Chad Bianco. Riverside Ca Sheriff and now a Gubernatorial candidate. A total cluster. He spent a ton of time pounding home his positions on Cali. Spent zero time addressing how he was going to deal with the big cheat. The wife and I walked away pretty disappointed. You political ideologies don’t mean Jack shit unless you can actually attain office. I’m about out.
I’m going to open a pet food store in NYC and claim dog food is just as nutritious as human food. Those Dem voting fvckers won’t know the difference.
The result is the same for Catsimatidis.
But he’s rich and he’s old.
Chinese food made from cats/etc. may be the menu for New Yawkers.
That is really good news…
I taught electronics in Russia for the company I worked at back in the 2000’s. Everyone was so happy to have capitalism and told me horror stories about communism. I think it is high time these Demoncrat voting liberals got a taste of the medicine they are voting for.
But nothing BEFORE was TRUE Communism!!!
Communism will work when WE do it!!!
But only if we can FORCE people to accept our brilliant ideas that are too smart for them to understand!!!
DB
The only problem with giving Dem Libtards a taste of true Communism medicine, is that when they get tired of it, they’ll move.
The only way your cure would work is if you forced the Libtards to stay in NYC. A great idea otherwise.
Let them all starve.
Anonymous, don’t forget the can openers for those cans of dog food. Remember when Rush used to talk about old people eating dog food because it was the only thing that they could afford. I hear that Alpo is especially good.
I don’t know why this even passes the yawn test.
Everything – EVERY-FUKKIN-THING – that gov’t (particularly NY and NYC gov’ts) touch turns to shit.
If this filthy terrorist has his way NYC will suffer widespread starvation.
Not him and his maggot supporters, but the dumbass denizens of NYC who vote for him.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
If I remember right Rush was talking about buying his mom a can opener so she could open the can and eat the dogfood. And I think that this mom wasn’t very happy his comment.
Synchronic Hight Site ~E
https://genius.com/The-uninvited-us-too-high-for-the-supermarket-lyrics
1 Stack O Pan Cakes, Please
No Tea, Just Coffee, Black
Finally we’ll have communism done correctly ..
Yes the food is cheaper but we decide what you get to eat
The real goal behind the govt food markets is to simply let the people steal from them at will. Bolstering (they belive) their argument that the people are poor and starving, en masse. It’s just a phoney facade to another welfare venue.
If NYC wants real communism let them get it good and hard.
BOHICA, here it comes again and again and again. Another reason that I will never visit NYC.