Source: EconLog
by Peter Jacobsen
“In 1989, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took a famous trip to a grocery store in Texas. … Yeltsin was amazed by the food availability in the US, in contrast with the breadlines of the Soviet Union. Markets successfully catered to customers, whereas government central planning performed miserably by comparison. Despite this recent example, politicians in the US have begun to wonder whether centrally planned grocery stores are superior. New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani has recently proposed a municipal grocery store.” (09/17/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-problem-with-government-run-grocery-stores/