As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani moves ahead with a plan to open five city-run grocery stores, one of the Big Apple’s biggest supermarket owners has a blunt warning: the stores won't feed the hungry, but they will shelve the bodegas next door. MAMDANI’S CITY GROCERY PLAN COULD LEAVE TAXPAYERS PAYING FOR EVERY BANANAThe government-run shops will offer a 30% discount on a "core basket of everyday groceries," including meat, seafood and fresh produce, in an attempt to combat the affordability crisis plaguing the city, according to Mamdani’s administration. They put the stores and the businesses inside New York City out of business." If you go up and down the streets in New York City, half the stores are empty — which is horrible." Cohen also pointed to an existing program titled "FRESH," which aims to identify food deserts within New York City.