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It's a pilot program for a few stores.
The city currently has a program where they're paying private grocery stores to try and mitigate food deserts, but there's so few strings attached it's just free money to the shops.
He's proposing ending that, and using the money to directly open grocery stores in food deserts run as city owned coops.
It's not infringing on private business because they're not operating in these areas anyway.