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.

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. But as food costs climb and public ...

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.

And, of course, New York politicians would have a strong incentive to use these new enterprises for political gain, compounding the risk of cronyism, corruption, and inefficiency—as California ...

Now that New York City Democrats have nominated radical socialist Zohran Mamdani for the mayoral race, the election will ...

Democratic socialist and mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani apparently wants to pay for his city-run grocery stores by using taxpayer funds that don’t actually exist.. The Queens assemblyman ...

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 ...