Zohran Mamdani suggests ‘New York City’s first free grocery store’ is PR stunt
Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based prediction market, announced it would open store in apparent nod to mayor’s signature policyZohran Mamdani made city-operated grocery stores a key pledge of his campaign for mayor of New York City. So when one company seemed to muscle in on the idea this week,...
<p>Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based prediction market, announced it would open store in apparent nod to mayor’s signature policy</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/zohran-mamdani">Zohran Mamdani</a> made <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/25/mamdani-nyc-public-grocery-stores">city-operated grocery stores</a> a key pledge of his campaign for mayor of New York City. So when one company seemed to muscle in on the idea this week, apparently as a PR stunt, Mamdani was quick to reply.</p><p>Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based prediction market, <a href="https://substack.com/@polymarket/note/c-209384414?">announced</a> on Tuesday it would be opening “New York City’s first free grocery store,” seemingly a nod to the mayor’s signature policy. In a statement the firm said it hoped to “empower every New Yorker to achieve food security for good”, and that it had donated $1m to the Food Bank for NYC.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/zohran-mamdani-polymarket-free-grocery-store">Continue reading...</a>
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