New York City is on track to launch 5 city-run grocery stores. Here’s what happened when other cities tried them.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is rolling out his city-run grocery stores — and New York City has a lot to learn from metros that have done the same thing.

The five NYC stores, which the city says will open by 2029, plan to offer shoppers a 30% discount on core goods like meat, dairy, and fresh produce through government subsidies offered to private operators that will run the stores.

In other cities, lawmakers have opened city-run stores through a series of grants and loans. Some, such as a public-private partnership-run supermarket in Atlanta that closely resembles Mamdani’s proposal, are financially viable. Other experiments in places like Kansas…

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