State-Run Supermarkets: A (Bad) Statist Solution in Search of a Problem

Scott Lincicome

While Capitolism was vacationing, avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani scored a surprising victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary—one that’s thrust many of his state-centric proposals into the spotlight. Among those is his very bad plan for government grocery stores, which—as the Unofficial Newsletter of American Grocery AbundanceTM—Capitolism is effectively obligated to cover.

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