r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Sep 15 '26

Murdered By Words 🩸 A very good point.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 15 '26

Mamdani is trying to turn a profit? I thought the whole point was that he wasn’t trying to profit, thereby saving customers money.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 15 '26

I mean, why would a state run store need to make a profit though?

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 15 '26

I get that, but I’m asking why not just have the store sell at cost to save consumers even more money?

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 15 '26

I don’t really have a point. I was just trying to understand yours. I sincerely doubt, however, that making a cheeky point about grocers charging more than they could by a few percentage points matters more than simply offering tax payers steeper discounts. Doesn’t seem politically savvy as a strategy.

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u/PalatwinkusVT Sep 15 '26

Because "good" is still better than "awful", even if "perfect" would be more so.