{"id":26,"date":"2026-05-19T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:09:21","slug":"mamdani-announces-another-nyc-run-grocery-store-by-disagreeing-with-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani announces another NYC-run grocery store by disagreeing with Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used one of former President Ronald Reagan\u2019s most well-known quotes to announce another Big Apple-run grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=24\">Putin visits China to reaffirm Russia ties as Xi also seeks stable U.S. relations after Trump summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe famously said, \u2019The nine most terrifying words in the English language are I\u2019m from the government, and I\u2019m here to help.\u2019 It\u2019s a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually, \u2019I worked all day and can\u2019t feed my family,\u2019\u201d Mr. Mamdani said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>While Reagan was cautioning about the dangers of big government, Mr. Mamdani was presenting his promise to open the city\u2019s first government-run grocery stores as Americans face increasing costs for everyday goods. He championed such projects as a \u201cgrand experiment\u201d to fight soaring food prices during his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen government understands its purpose as serving the very working people that it has left behind time and again, it can make a difference in the most pressing struggles facing our city today,\u201d Mr. Mamdani said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just that government can help, it\u2019s that government must help, and our government will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said Mr. Mamdani \u201cflipped Ronald Reagan\u2019s warning upside down [and] his answer is government-run grocery stores that will use taxpayer advantages to undercut private competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said Monday that the city\u2019s first municipal grocery store, a 20,000-square-foot project, will open sometime in 2027 in a massive affordable housing development in the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx. He said last month that a 9,000-square-foot store at the La Marqueta marketplace in East Harlem is anticipated to open in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=22\">Trump picks side in bitter Texas GOP Senate runoff, endorsing ultra-MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are two of his five promised stores. Mr. Mamdani has allocated $70 million to develop one in each borough, launching an online portal for potential grocery store sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, all of which must be up and running by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the mayor said the stores \u201cwill serve as physical proof of our conviction that government can be a force for good, that government can drive change that improves people\u2019s lives\u201d and the projects have loyal supporters, others disagree.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the United Bodegas of America said it will hurt small businesses rather than offer a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t serve eight million people with five locations. You can serve eight million people if you work out a deal with the existing businesses,\u201d the spokesman, Fernando Mateo, said in a statement to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the projects are \u201cgoing to hurt us more than what they\u2019re gonna help,\u201d defending bodega owners who \u201cwork on pennies on the dollar. What we need is help from you, mayor. Not competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=20\">\u2018More real than real\u2019: Why deep-fake political ads are fooling older Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used one of former President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s most well-known quotes to announce another Big Apple-run grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[28,27,29],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-new-york-city","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mamdani announces another NYC-run grocery store by disagreeing with Ronald Reagan - 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