{"id":2466928,"date":"2025-07-25T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-mamdani-wants-govt-grocery-stores-in-nyc-just-dont-ask-how-thats-going-in-kansas-city\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:24:08","slug":"socialist-mamdani-wants-govt-grocery-stores-in-nyc-just-dont-ask-how-thats-going-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialist-mamdani-wants-govt-grocery-stores-in-nyc-just-dont-ask-how-thats-going-in-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Mamdani Wants Gov&#8217;t Grocery Stores in NYC \u2013 Just Don&#8217;t Ask How That\u2019s Going in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocialist-mamdani-wants-govt-grocery-stores-in-nyc-just-dont-ask-how-thats-going-in-kansas-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2466928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article criticizes New York City socialist mayoral candidate zohran Mamdani&#8217;s proposal for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-proposes-opening-city-owned-grocery-stores\/\" title=\"Chicago plans to open city-owned ....\">city-owned grocery stores<\/a>, highlighting the failure of a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >similar government-run grocery store<\/a>, &#8220;KC Sun Fresh,&#8221; in Kansas City, Missouri. Opened in 2018 to provide fresh food access in underserved areas, the store has struggled with declining customer traffic since the COVID-19 pandemic and has lost around $900,000. Reports and social media posts describe the store as empty, poorly stocked, and financially unsustainable despite millions of public and private dollars invested. Fox News and Fox Business covered the store&#8217;s decline,noting rising crime and low sales,with city officials downplaying concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that government-run enterprises tend to be inefficient, unaccountable, and prone to failure and corruption. It also references Mamdani&#8217;s other progressive policies, such as banning guns and defunding the police, asserting that these have led to problems in other major cities. The piece warns that if Mamdani becomes mayor, his initiatives will fail similarly, drawing comparisons to the economic collapse seen in socialist Venezuela. Quoting Winston Churchill, the article concludes that socialism leads to failure and misery and advocates for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-crazed-bureaucrats-home-of-the-future-is-secretly-a-costly-fixer-upper\/\" title=\"Officials&#039; &#039;Future Home&#039; is a pricey renovation project in disguise.\">market-driven innovation<\/a> over government control.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>New York City&rsquo;s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants city-owned grocery stores, but he obviously didn&rsquo;t get the memo from Kansas City, Missouri, that it&rsquo;s a failing proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City opened &ldquo;KC Sun Fresh&rdquo; back in 2018. The store was supposed to assist residents who didn&rsquo;t have access to fresh produce, fish, meat, poultry, and other everyday food items.<\/p>\n<p>Since the COIVD-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/documents-usaid-sent-thousands-viral-samples-wuhan-lab-despite-shocking-lack-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandemic<\/a>,&nbsp;customer traffic has collapsed, while the enterprise has lost around $900,000 since its opening, Red State <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/beckynoble\/2025\/07\/24\/zohran-mamdani-wants-govt-run-grocery-stores-heres-how-it-is-working-in-kansas-city-n2192042#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hodgetwins highlighted the store&rsquo;s failure on social media platform X this week, writing: &ldquo;Government funded grocery store Sun Fresh Market test in Kansas City has failed. Shelves are completely empty, food rotten, after millions of federal dollars invested. This sounds like another dumb Democrat idea.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Government funded grocery store Sun Fresh Market test in Kansas City has failed. Shelves are completely empty, food rotten, after millions of federal dollars invested. This sounds like another dumb Democrat idea&#129313; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c5zs2sCIFY\">pic.twitter.com\/c5zs2sCIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgetwins\/status\/1948142102937997623?\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fox News&rsquo; Jesse Watters did a report this week highlighting Kansas City&rsquo;s folly, saying, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been done before, and it&rsquo;s never worked. Kansas City has their own communist grocery store. It&rsquo;s in ruins.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &ldquo;[They] sunk millions of dollars &mdash; both public and private &mdash; into keeping it afloat, and aisles are empty. Crime is skyrocketing, and sales plummeting. Tens of millions of dollars were invested into the Kansas commie store, and it&rsquo;s still a net negative &hellip;. it looks like a ghost town.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of America&rsquo;s first &ldquo;COMMUNIST&rdquo; grocery stores is already in SHAMBLES&hellip; and Zohran Mamdani wants MORE!! &#128722;&#9773;&#128518; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ESFdr4HGw\">pic.twitter.com\/4ESFdr4HGw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseBWatters\/status\/1948184559620685980?\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fox Business Channel sent reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video\/6375981942112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Saberi<\/a> to the store, where a customer she interviewed complained that there was &ldquo;no meat. There&rsquo;s no vegetables. There&rsquo;s no nothing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Mayor Quintin Lucas, on the other hand, dismissed concerns, saying: &ldquo;While I hear and understand the crime issues and concerns, there&rsquo;s a grocery store right down the street &mdash; largely in the same, like, kind of area &mdash; some of the same criminal numbers and statistics &mdash; that still is doing pretty darn well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This news comes as Kansas City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/kansas-city-ends-free-bus-program-over-budget-concerns-while-nyc-dem-socialist-pushes-no-fare-transit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also suspended<\/a> its city-run bus program that provided free service. Despite this, Mamdani wants to replicate that as well.<\/p>\n<p>This younger generation of far-left leaders in the Democratic Party can&rsquo;t seem to grasp that government rarely makes things better.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s inefficient, operates with little accountability, treats budgets like toilet paper, and is primed for corruption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mamdani-faces-brutal-criticism-party-got-condemn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamdani&rsquo;s<\/a> other radical views, like banning guns and defunding the police, have been a disaster in blue cities like Los Angeles and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>New York City is already suffering from a crime and homelessness problem, high prices, massive taxes, and it&rsquo;s still filthy. If Mamdani is elected mayor, his schemes will fail, because historically, they&rsquo;ve always failed.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/05\/13\/world\/americas\/venezuela-bread-shortage\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> had fistfights and social unrest in its breadlines, with people eventually being reduced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/17\/thieves-stealing-venezuela-zoo-animals-to-eat-them-say-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stealing<\/a> zoo animals for food. Is that the sort of system we wish to emulate here in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>As Winston Churchill once <a href=\"https:\/\/winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu\/socialism-is-the-philosophy-of-failure-winston-churchill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy &hellip; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s stay as far away from it as humanly possible, and let innovation drive the market, instead of hypocritical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-vows-save-nyc-time-communist-lunatic-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communists<\/a> lusting after personal power.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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However, he seems unaware of Kansas City, Missouri&#8217;s experience with such a venture, which has not been successful. Kansas City launched &#8220;KC Sun Fresh&#8221; in 2018 to help residents lacking access to fresh food like produce, meat, and fish. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, customer visits have sharply declined and the store has lost about $900,000 since opening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2466929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mamdani-on-Government-run-grocery-stores.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[59950,32897,7332,12428],"class_list":["post-2466928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-government-grocery-stores","tag-kansas-city","tag-nyc","tag-socialism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mamdani-on-Government-run-grocery-stores.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466932,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466928\/revisions\/2466932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}