Economists Lose Their Minds Over Mamdani Supermarkets: ‘LITERALLY How You Destroy An Economy’

Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani came under fire Monday after making another promise for his controversial plan for city-run grocery stores, with critics, business leaders, and economists savaging the $70 million taxpayer-funded scheme as an illiterate economic disaster that will drive neighborhood bodegas into bankruptcy.

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The backlash came swift and furious just hours after Mamdani took to the stage to proudly pitch a network of five government-owned supermarkets promising a mandatory 30% discount on “essential staples” like meat, produce, cheese, and milk. Brandishing a plantain and hawking a QR code like a late-night pitchman, Mamdani insisted government price controls are the only fix for soaring food prices and corporate “surveillance pricing.”

“No exceptions, no gimmicks,” Mamdani declared, promising that the city would freeze prices for a core basket of goods month after month.

Outrage over the socialist plan exploded online and across the business community, with experts warning that basic arithmetic is about to crush Big Apple taxpayers.

“This is LITERALLY how you destroy an economy,” warned venture capitalist Shaun Maguire. He cautioned that driving private grocers out of business with government-subsidized stores is the classic blueprint for supply-chain breakdowns and bare shelves. “This is the story of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Now coming to NYC!”

CNBC anchor Sara Eisen added, “Socialist economics. Grocery stores operate with 1-2% profit margins already so taxpayers will have to subsidize 30% discounts on groceries. It also threatens to shut down local markets and bodegas (and reduce access to food), because they have to compete with the city stores, while also paying commercial rent and earning profits.”

Hedge fund co-founder Vuk Vukovic wrote, “If a grocery store wants to sell food 30% cheaper, one of only four things *must* be true: 1) Its suppliers are accepting 30% lower prices. 2) Its workers are accepting 30% lower wages. 3) Taxpayers are covering the difference through subsidies. 4) The store is operating at a loss, and will soon be out of business.”

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“Something that people have a very hard time understanding is that prices don’t disappear. They allocate scarce resources. You can move costs around, hide them, or delay them, but you can’t make them vanish,” Vukovic added. “Having said that, let them do this experiment. They will destroy small grocers and produce food shortages.”

With grocery stores historically surviving on razor-thin margins of 1% to 3%, analysts pointed out that dropping prices by 30% doesn’t magically create savings — it just forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for the massive losses.

Joseph Hernandez, a Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller, dismantled Mamdani’s math. With each proposed store estimated to pull in $5.4 million in annual sales, a 30% discount creates a staggering $1.5 million yearly loss per store.

“Total cost to taxpayers, year one: about $78 million and then a permanent tax year after that, forever,” Hernandez said. “And then you compete with private bodegas, small businesses paying full rent and taxes, run on the same razor-thin margins … This isn’t affordability. It’s a tax hike disguised as a discount and a private business killer.”

A government-run grocery experiment in Kansas City lost nearly $900,000 in 2024 alone while leaving shelves completely bare.

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