Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city grocery stores has already failed in Kansas City. That experiment wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and left shelves empty. New Yorkers should reject this dangerous socialist idea before it destroys our city.

Kansas City tried Mamdani’s exact plan. They opened a government-run store called Sun Fresh. It became a disaster fast. Shelves sat empty while food rotted in backrooms. Shoppers found barely anything to buy.

This store lost nearly a million dollars last year alone. Overall it blew through tens of millions in public money. That’s your hard-earned taxes thrown away on a failing business. Politicians gambled with worker wages and lost.

Store managers blame the city for security failures. Crime plagues the area. Local leaders broke promises about funding. The city couldn’t even provide basic safety or organized management. Government proved incompetent at running a simple grocery.

Just 4,000 people shop there weekly now. That’s down from 14,000. Families abandoned the store. They chose private businesses instead. The government store couldn’t compete with real supermarkets offering better selection and quality.

Mamdani wants to dump $60 million of New York taxes into this failed model. He plans FIVE city-run stores. This would repeat Kansas City’s mistakes here. Our city cannot afford such expensive experiments.

Government belongs nowhere near our groceries. Private stores work because they understand customers. Businesses earn profits by serving people well. City bureaucrats only know waste and failure.

New York must learn from this disaster. Socialist pipe dreams always crumble. Kansas City’s empty shelves scream a warning: Keep government out of our shopping carts.