Lee relays CM Palladino questions on grocery store prices and brands
Lee asks Palladino's questions about grocery prices, whether name brands will be carried, and product variety. Peck confirms it will operate like a regular grocery store with only the core basket discounted.
Okay, I just had a really quick question on behalf of Councilmember Palladino, who was watching online.
Just in terms of the grocery stores, can you just, I'll ask them all at once.
And I think you actually answered some of these, but for the record, I just wanted to note her questions.
She was asking about the prices and what they're going to be, which I know you said were certain percentages.
And then are you going to be carrying name brands?
If not, what can we expect to see on the shelves?
Are people going to have the vast amount of options that we have in our grocery stores now?
And I think you sort of answered that question, but if you could again, just for the record.
Yeah, a lot of that's going to be worked out when we have the third-party grocery opportunity, but basically it is how we're envisioning that it's going to be like a regular grocery store with this core basket being discounted.
And mostly focused on fresh foods, healthy items, those types of things.
And everyday groceries.
Okay.
And not going to overlap.
There's going to be items with bodegas at bodegas that are not going to be there and grocery store items that are not going to be in those, but they can still get elsewhere in the local supermarkets, right?
Say that again.
So in other words, there's going to be some overlap in items, but a lot of them are,
because they're mostly focused on fresh items, healthy foods, a lot of it is, you know, in other words, the local stores and bodegas are still going to be carrying things at that supermarket.
Will not.
Yes.
So, yes, there will be things that will not be offering in the NYC groceries that are big in brothels, like lottery tickets to pick up products, alcohols, things like that.
But we will only be discounting a core basket.
And sort of, as we understand, the sort of the highly profitable items for bodegas are not going to be discounted.
Okay, perfect.
I just was, I used to buy live chickens at that location.
I don't want to tell you what happened to them after I purchased them, but at that location.
Thank you very much.