a core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal grocery stores. The basket will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with roughly 20 additional categories of pantry staples, dairy and refrigerated goods
30% discount from what? This doesn’t make sense.
It’s right there in the link.
Your quote doesn’t answer the question.
30% cheaper than what?
I’d assume 30% cheaper compared to non-municipal grocery stores.
Which ones? The State doesn’t mandate the prices, and prices vary significantly from market to market.
30% is not a qualitative figure. It’s very quantitative. But it’s absolute bullshit without actually saying what is the actual baseline.
From ddg:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the NYC municipal grocery stores will be about 30% cheaper than average retail grocery store prices.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mamdani-vows-30-lower-prices-120100437.html
That’s meaningless
standard retail, which is pretty easy to find for any given item
That is a very wide price range.
So 30% could be somewhere between 10% or 200%, depending on which shop.
Which makes the claim of “30%” absolutely a pile of bullshit
So I take it you’ve never worked as a buyer
For the health and well-being of the community. It makes sense if you remove the profit motive.