Zohran Mamdani: “The city's existing program called City Fresh, where they're…”

“The cost of this is $60 million to set up one store in each borough. So that's five stores as the pilot program. Now that should be compared to The city's existing program called City Fresh, where they're set to spend $140 million subsidizing corporate grocery stores. without any requirement for lower prices, any requirement for collective bargaining, or any requirement that they even accept SNAP or wic.” (06:39–06:46)

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