Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s $65 million plan to establish five city-run grocery stores, one in each borough, is not a novel idea. It has been done before, replicated in America by well-meaning visionaries, yet has repeatedly yielded disastrous results.
The historical failures surrounding state-owned supermarkets harken back to Soviet-era socialist systems.
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