Zohran Mamdani is right about the city’s grocery problem: Costs for groceries are breaking the bank for many New Yorkers. But he doesn’t seem to know that public grocery stores have already been tried, and have failed, across the country — or that the private sector can solve the problem, if the government helped rather than hindered it. Rikki Schlott breaks down what you need to know.

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