Five stores scattered across the same number of boroughs, each with over a million inhabitants, is not very impressive. But whatever the number -- five, five hundred, or five thousand -- the scheme suffers from a crippling flaw that has been overlooked. Yeah okay, there’s some water there, but they got tunnels that go right under it straight to Manhattan. I mean, even Queens and Brooklyn, they ain’t more than like a half-hour, forty minutes away, right? Mamdani has stated that prices in the new city-owned people’s stores will be 30% under those of chain supermarkets.