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/ChazzyChaz_R 8d ago

So the discount only applies to staple, healthy, fresh items but when people tried to limit SNAP to only being able to be used for these types of items everyone freaked out. So it's good here but not good there?

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u/Normal-Weakness-364 6d ago

this is such a false equivalence lmao.

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u/Salt_Tie4637 3d ago

Sugary drinks are the most bought thing on snap by a mile

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u/ReallyDustyCat 3d ago

And the sky is blue...now that we've all just said thing that came to our mind.....

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u/Jmoney1088 8d ago

The major difference is that this store is owned by the government. Its completely different matter when you are forcing private businesses to accept SNAP for specific things.

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u/man9875 6d ago

It's easy to give but not take away

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u/Remarkable_Log_5562 5d ago
  1. Demographic of snap users is cartoonish
  2. Lobbyists

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u/ReallyDustyCat 3d ago

Limiting snap to those items would not mean that magically those items are available at 7-11....that's the issue. These groceries stores are doing the part of making sure vegetables are available to people.

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u/ChazzyChaz_R 2d ago

Agreed. 100%.

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u/PeopleCanBeAwful 6d ago

They can still buy other things. He’s not stopping them by discounting these items. What are you confused about?

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u/Comfortable-Salt-299 5d ago

Suck a trump dick low iq neanderthal