It's not discounted groceries. It's stores in food deserts.

Respectfully, maybe spend 5 minutes reading about it from the horse’s mouth. The Mamdani admin has done a pretty good job, imo, of laying out the case, and explaining the plan for these 5 grocery stores.

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani...

* Jurisdictional: Food stamps can't be adjusted by NYC itself (as far as I know), so if they're insufficient this works around that issue

* Store access: Food stamps don't necessarily solve the problem of "there's no grocery store close to me", and if the market can't be nudged in that direction, a direct intervention solves it faster.