>>212313408Running a government liquor store and a government grocery store are completely different. Liquor is non-perishable, is a luxury, and the ostensible motive is that it is worse than private liquor stores, and the government needs to discourage liquor consumption. I'm in North Carolina where liquor stores are run by the county government, and some people will drive to South Carolina because they prefer the private liquor stores.
>Reducing cost of product goes by reducing your profit margin or limiting the different supplierGrocery store profit margins are 3%.
And the government is very unlikely to be able to run the stores as efficiently as private companies, who have complex supply chains. The likely outcome of a public grocery store is a store that is:
-Not cheaper than the private ones
-Worse than the private ones
-A tax sink
On top of this, the NYC government has to decide whether or not to remove vagrants from the store, prosecute shop lifting, and sell Israeli products