“The mayor doesn’t seem to want to sit down with us,” Garcia told the Post, warning that Mamdani “won’t be able to bully these lawyers.” However, the coalition is not alone in the fight against Soviet-style grocery stores in the Big Apple. Several other groups representing grocery store owners have spoken out against Mamdani’s plans, fearing that their bottom line could be jeopardized by city-run markets. RELATED: Socialist Mamdani says city-run grocery stores will undercut supermarkets by 30%Adam Gray/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesGrocery executive John Catsimatidis, the owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino Supermarkets, has also bashed the proposal. “We know that a lot of what drives revenue for these bodegas, grocery stores, those are things that make it possible for them to continue to operate.