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何塞菲娜·阿吉雷：父母耗时近30年创办的家族企业如今岌岌可危
作者：阿曼达·马西亚斯 福克斯新闻
作为第一代美国公民，何塞菲娜·阿吉雷一家经营纽约杂货店已有近30年，她表示曼达尼的市属杂货店计划可能威胁到她的生计，并最终迫使家族停业。
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“只要1美元，”何塞菲娜·阿吉雷在西班牙哈莱姆区家族肉铺内暂停采访，对一名顾客说道。
“抱歉，我还有几位客人，我们从头开始吧，”这位第一代美国公民说道。她在柜台后笑着补充道：“这就是我的日常”，过去30年来她一直在这里工作。
阿吉雷是起诉纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼的社区杂货店店主之一，曼达尼计划在全市五个行政区开设市属支持的杂货店。他表示，该计划将为购物者提供比同类零售商低约30%的价格。当地企业主则认为，这将迫使当地小型店铺关门大吉。
专家痛批曼达尼的杂货店计划是“假象”，最终将由纳税人买单
多年来，夫妻杂货店和小型杂货店一直是纽约社区的标志性存在，为世代居民提供服务，店铺通常就开在居民家附近。（斯宾塞·普拉特/盖蒂图片社）
“当我们听说曼达尼要开一家能让大家省30%钱的杂货店时，我们吓坏了，因为我们没钱与之竞争，”阿吉雷说道。
“我们是纽约人，从不惧怕竞争，但这种情况下出现的杂货店，真的能把我们挤垮。”
计划中的市属杂货店之一明年将在拉马尔克塔开业，该公共市场距离阿吉雷的父母1997年开办的家族生意“小墨西哥”仅两个街区。市政府预计将斥资约3000万美元建造该门店，将一家由纳税人支持的竞争对手直接设在阿吉雷的店家门口。
曼达尼市属杂货店计划或让纽约纳税人双重买单
一家耗资3000万美元的市属杂货店将开设在纽约杂货店主何塞菲娜·阿吉雷家族企业的两个街区之外。（肯德尔·罗德里格斯/《新闻日报》RM/盖蒂图片社）
数十年来，夫妻杂货店和小型杂货店一直是纽约社区结构的一部分，为住在几个街区外的顾客提供服务。
阿吉雷表示，她现在和两个姐妹一起经营的这家店，已经熬过了新冠疫情、租金上涨以及好市多等大型连锁零售商的竞争。但经营近30年后，阿吉雷担心曼达尼的市属杂货店计划可能会成为家族无法挺过的难关。
“如果我一整只鸡卖13美元，而他只卖7美元，大家都会去买7美元的鸡，”阿吉雷说，“谁不想省30%的钱呢？”
对阿吉雷来说，风险远不止失去客户。
“我的房贷靠这家店还，孩子的学费也靠它。我已经干了30多年了，难道还要从头开始换一份新工作吗？”
阿吉雷的担忧是一群纽约杂货店店主提起诉讼的核心诉求，他们挑战曼达尼的计划，该计划将动用公共资金和城市资源打造竞争对手，他们认为私营企业根本无法与之匹敌。
纽约杂货店主就曼达尼的超市计划敲响警钟：“我们会失去顾客”
纽约市长佐赫兰·曼达尼将市属杂货店作为其负担得起的生活议程的核心内容，他认为这种政府支持的模式能够为面临食品价格上涨的纽约人提供更低的价格。（彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
曼达尼已承诺投入7000万美元开设五家市属杂货店，每个行政区一家，他将该模式宣传为帮助纽约人降低食品账单的途径，以应对不断上涨的食品成本。这些商店将设在市属土地上，无需支付租金或房产税，曼达尼认为这些优势将使其能够提供更低的价格。
独立杂货店店主认为，这些由纳税人支持的优势同样会让“小墨西哥”这类企业在不公平的竞争环境中生存。
曼达尼推动开设杂货店的举措，也是他为纽约打造更广泛社会主义愿景的早期试验，将政府运营的商店直接与以资本主义著称的城市中的私营企业展开竞争。
从免费公交到市属杂货店，曼达尼的主要经济承诺一览
但对阿吉雷来说，这场斗争更关乎个人情感。
“这是我父母留给我们的东西，”阿吉雷说，“看到我们不得不离开，会让人很难过。”
但放弃家族耗时近30年创办的生意，是她最不愿看到的结果。
“接下来会发生什么？接下来就是我们的店关门，我们不想关门，我们已经在这里经营多年了，”她说。
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Her immigrant parents built a NYC grocery store from scratch. Now Mamdani’s experiment could end it
September 3, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
Josefina Aguirre says the family business her parents built in nearly 30 years ago is now at risk
By Amanda Macias Fox News
Josefina Aguirre, a first-generation American whose family has run its NYC grocery store for nearly 30 years, says Mamdani’s city-run stores could threaten her livelihood and ultimately force her family out of business.
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“It’s going to be $1,” Josefina Aguirre said to a customer, pausing an interview with Fox News Digital inside her family’s Spanish Harlem meat market.
“Okay, I’m sorry. I got a couple of customers. Let’s start over,” Aguirre, a first-generation American, said. “This is me,” she added with a laugh from behind the counter where she has worked for the past 30 years.
Aguirre is among the neighborhood grocers suing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plan to open city-backed grocery stores across all five boroughs. He says the plan will offer shoppers prices roughly 30% lower than comparable retailers. Local business owners argue it will force small local-run stores to shutter.
EXPERTS SCORCH MAMDANI’S GROCERY PLAN AS AN ‘ILLUSION’ THAT WILL HAVE TAXPAYERS FOOTING THE BILL
Bodegas and small grocery stores have long been fixtures of New York City neighborhoods, serving generations of residents often just steps from their homes.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“When we heard Mamdani was opening a grocery store where people are gonna save 30%, it scares us because we don’t have the money to compete,” Aguirre said.
“I mean, we are New Yorkers, we’re not scared of competition, we never have been, but when you have a grocery store coming in like this, it could take us out of business.”
One of the proposed city-backed stores is set to open next year at La Marqueta, an existing public market just two blocks from Little Mexico, the family business Aguirre’s parents opened in 1997. The city is expected to spend roughly $30 million to build the location, putting a taxpayer-backed competitor practically on Aguirre’s doorstep.
NYC TAXPAYERS COULD PAY TWICE UNDER MAMDANI’S CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORE PLAN
A $30 million city-backed grocery store is opening two blocks from NYC grocer Josefina Aguirre’s family business.(Kendall Rodriguez/Newsday RM/Getty Images)
For generations, bodegas and small grocery stores have been woven into the fabric of New York City neighborhoods, serving customers who often live just blocks away.
Aguirre said the shop, which she now runs with her two sisters, has survived the COVID-19 pandemic, rising rents and competition from big-box retailers such as a nearby Costco. But after nearly three decades in business, Aguirre fears Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan could be the setback her family cannot survive.
“If I’m selling a whole chicken for $13, and he’s giving it for $7, they’re gonna buy the $7 chicken,” Aguirre said. “Who doesn’t want a 30% discount?”
For Aguirre, the stakes extend well beyond losing customers.
“I pay my mortgage from here. I pay for my kid’s tuition. This is what I’ve been doing for over 30 years. Do I need to start over in a new career?”
Aguirre’s concerns are at the heart of a lawsuit brought by a group of New York City grocers challenging Mamdani’s plan, which would use public money and city resources to create competitors they argue private businesses cannot realistically match.
NYC GROCERS SOUND ALARM ON MAMDANI’S SUPERMARKET PLAN: ‘WE’LL LOSE CUSTOMERS’
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made city-owned grocery stores a centerpiece of his affordability agenda, arguing the government-backed model can deliver lower prices to New Yorkers struggling with the rising cost of food.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mamdani has committed $70 million to opening five municipal grocery stores, one in each borough, pitching the model as a way to bring down grocery bills for New Yorkers struggling with the rising cost of food. The stores would operate on city-owned property without having to pay rent or property taxes, advantages Mamdani has argued would allow them to offer lower prices.
Independent grocers argue those same taxpayer-backed advantages would leave businesses like Little Mexico competing on an uneven playing field.
Mamdani’s grocery push is also an early test of his broader socialist vision for New York, bringing government-run stores into direct competition with private businesses in a city synonymous with capitalism.
FROM FREE BUSES TO CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORES, HERE ARE MAMDANI’S KEY ECONOMIC PROMISES
For Aguirre, however, the fight is more personal.
“This is what my parents left us,” Aguirre said. “It’ll be sad to see us leave.”
But walking away from the business her family has spent nearly three decades building is the last outcome she wants.
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“So what will happen next? The next thing would be closing our business, and we don’t want to close, we’ve been here for years,” she said.
Mamdani’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Amanda Macias covers the intersection of business, economics and politics, with a focus on how policy decisions shape markets, businesses and American workers.
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