A group of New York City grocers has sued the city over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to build government-owned grocery stores that would sell produce at prices 25% below the market price. Ashleigh Fields of The Hill reports:
A group of grocers in New York City filed two separate lawsuits on Monday against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration following the proposal of municipal grocery stores across the Big Apple.
Plaintiffs united under the Multicultural Business Coalition sued Mamdani in state court, alleging their civil rights will be violated if city-run grocery stores are opened.
The second lawsuit alleges Mamdani’s administration didn’t engage in a proper analysis of the impact municipal grocery stores with reduced prices will have on current grocers.
“Plaintiffs have been denied equal protection where the Plaintiffs, predominately immigrant and minority owned grocery stores, are unable to offer similarly discounted products of the NYC-GP, and therefore, the former are being unduly denied the equal protection of the subsidized municipal grocery stores (i.e., NYC-GP), where the Defendants have failed to take corrective action, namely meaningfully study and analysis to avoid furthering historic discriminatory exclusion, and exclusion generally,” the first lawsuit, obtained by Fox Business Network, states.
“Therefore, the Plaintiffs are suffering undue harm,” attorneys for the plaintiffs add.
Fox 5 New York reports:
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