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While socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani touts government-run grocery stores for the Big Apple, Kansas City, Mo.’s subsidized supermarket is struggling with empty shelves and mounting financial losses even after city officials poured in millions to keep it afloat.
KC Sun Fresh, which opened in 2018 inside a city-owned strip mall and was taken over by a nonprofit in 2022, is now on the brink of closure amid spiraling crime, plummeting sales, and empty shelves, according to the Washington Post. The store “lost $885,000 last year and now has only about 4,000 shoppers a week,” the Post reported. “Despite a recent $750,000 cash infusion from the city, the shelves are almost bare.”
Mamdani—the frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral election following his upset Democratic primary win over former governor Andrew Cuomo—has campaigned on opening similar supermarkets in the city. While Kansas City merely subsidized KC Sun Fresh, though, New York City would own and operate the stories under Mamdani’s proposal.
