Grocery boss warns Mamdani's city-run stores pit government against 'its own citizens'

As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani moves ahead with a plan to open five city-run grocery stores, one of the Big Apple’s biggest supermarket owners has a blunt warning: the stores won't feed the hungry, but they will shelve the bodegas next door. "The fact is the people [Mamdani] is going to hurt are the current bodegas or the current supermarkets in those neighborhoods," John Catsimatidis, CEO of the New York City grocery chain Gristedes, told Fox News Digital. "So it becomes a problem of ‘fo