Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

I was actually in favor of this, but someone in the tweet replies posted "don't people who need this already get free food?" and I was like oh yeah. 

Also there's a "Mamdani invented Aldi" joke here.

There's a boom here of small family-run supermarkets selling heavily discounted goods that are near or past the "best before" date. It seems to me that incentivizing the opening of stores like that through tax breaks, grants and rent subsidies would be more efficient than a city entering a famously complex industry that has low margins.

What I assume is gonna happen is that they'll open a handful of stores just to say "promise delivered". Their initial popularity will fizzle out because of limited variety and distribution issues. The New York Post will run weekly stories about it being a money pit and the next mayor will close them.