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Eric Adams: “It's going to dismantle our independent supermarkets, our…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams Discusses Reelection Challenges and Policy Criticisms in New York City Mayoral Race

Published | Video Starts at 09:16

And one would say, well, one grocery store in each borough, that sounds fine. But I like Fernando Mateo state. A cancer starts as one cell. You start watching it grow, It's going to dismantle our independent supermarkets, our bodegas that Dominicans, Koreans, Chinese, Russian speaking, this is the financial stability of the industries. And when you start dismantling and having government displaced workers. Now you're feeding the problem. Mayor, we're out of time. You know how this goes. We got to keep an official time for everybody. (09:16–09:30)

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Asserts that government-run grocery stores could dismantle independent supermarkets and bodegas, affecting financial stability.

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