{"id":7551,"date":"2025-07-03T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/nyc-bodega-owners-worry-zohran-mamdani-will-put-them-out-of-business-with-his-city-run-grocery-store-plan-i-dont-want-to-lose-my-job\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:10:23","slug":"nyc-bodega-owners-worry-zohran-mamdani-will-put-them-out-of-business-with-his-city-run-grocery-store-plan-i-dont-want-to-lose-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/nyc-bodega-owners-worry-zohran-mamdani-will-put-them-out-of-business-with-his-city-run-grocery-store-plan-i-dont-want-to-lose-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bodega owners worry Zohran Mamdani will put them out of business with his city-run grocery store plan: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to lose my job&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bodega owners and workers on Monday sounded the alarm over Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s plan to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/05\/us-news\/socialist-nyc-mayoral-candidates-city-run-supermarket-plan-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city-owned grocery stores<\/a> &#8211; claiming it&#8217;ll put them out of business.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Competing with the city having business is not going to be something that we can support,&#8221; Radhames Rodriguez, president of United Bodegas of America, said during a press conference outside a Gristedes supermarket in Midtown.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rodriguez, 62, who owns four bodegas in the Bronx, said his stores and others won&#8217;t be able to compete with prices at the city-run stores &#8211; which would be exempt from paying rent or property taxes under Mamdani&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/30\/us-news\/nyc-bodega-owners-worry-zohran-mamdani-will-put-them-out-of-business-with-city-run-grocery-store-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full history&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodega owners and workers on Monday sounded the alarm over Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s plan to launch city-owned grocery stores &#8211; claiming it&#8217;ll put them out of business. &#8220;Competing with the city having business is not going to be something that we can support,&#8221; Radhames Rodriguez, president of United Bodegas of America, said during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedbodegasofamerica.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}