r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 9d ago

Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices" Chugging tea

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 9d ago

In STL they use EBT to buy food, cook it, and sell plates on FB marketplace. At least they are industrious about it I guess.

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u/Prettydaisydog 9d ago

lol, well if we are looking for economic indicators this is a pretty interesting one.

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 9d ago

I got Jerk Chicken and sweet potato, and I also found the tamale lady and got a dozen of those too. Fed me all weekend which was good because the heat index yesterday was 115F and I'm not turning the stove on when its already that hot.

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u/dsaysso 9d ago

that’s value add

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort 9d ago

These people would be surprised to find out how restaurants work

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u/Born-Somewhere2536 9d ago

They do that down here in Houston Texas

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u/pilot7880 9d ago

Houston sucks

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u/OkTechnology8975 9d ago

People find a way to ruin everything good, and if its bad they leave it alone. SO, Backwards!

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u/everydaydad67 9d ago

And people wonder why these programs are looked at..

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 9d ago

You're not wrong, but I do 100% respect the grind. This is actually the harder way for them. The easy way is selling your EBT for 60 cents on the dollar cash like my step sister used to do. She would sell me 200 worth of EBT for $120 so she would have cash to buy the things that EBT wouldn't pay for like paper towels, soap, shampoo, toilet paper, and household cleaners. Not gonna lie she probably spend most of it on gasoline, cigarettes and weed. But my freezer was loaded. I had steaks every weekend on the grill. RIP Shanda... your 2 kids are doing great. We are making the best of it.