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Supermarkets Sue in Bid to Stop Mamdani’s Plan for Cheaper Groceries (novaramedia.com)

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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create city-run grocery stores to help New Yorkers struggling with the cost of living is being challenged in court by supermarkets, who say they won’t be able to compete with the stores’ low prices.

The New York City mayor plans to create five municipally owned stores on city-owned property by 2029 that will offer a 30% discount on goods like meat, dairy, and fruit and vegetables.

The lawsuit – led by the National Supermarket Association and supported by other groups and private stores – says Mamdani’s policy would create an unfair business environment. It also alleges that the administration failed to conduct a “serious analysis” of how local business would be impacted by the move

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[–] 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism: where making a profit is more important than providing goods and services 🙂

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not about any of the virtue signals they claim. It's about using capital to extract as much capital as possible.

That means spending and paying your workers as little as possible, while charging consumers as much as possible. That means building products that autonomously extract value from you through obsolescence and espionage. That means externalising costs and damages onto everyone else in society, and all future generations, while hoarding all of the economic and productivity gains. That means destroying competition and monopolising every industry. That means consuming all of the planets finite resources in the blink of an eye, stealing from all future generations. That means corrupting every democratic/public institution and returning to dictatorship of the wealthy. That means signing contracts with the IDF to help genocide Palestinians for profit; Microsoft would help the nazis murder your whole family if they believed it were the most profitable way to covert you into capital.

It's about parasitic levels of selfishness, greed, narcissism, and psychopathy.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah, uh, creating an “unfair” business environment is precisely the fucking point, because the prices the grocery stores were and are charging are actually unfair and exorbitant.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 14 points 2 days ago

Weird, they kept saying it wouldn’t work at all. If that were true they wouldn’t need to sue and it would just fail to impact their own businesses. It’s almost like they’re gouging customers and fear people will see how much so.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 7 points 2 days ago

how to prove antitrust with one simply trick🤣

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago