2026年8月26日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 / 福克斯新闻
由弗兰克·加西亚领导的联盟周一提起两起诉讼，并誓言对响应纽约市招标邀请的企业采取法律行动
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弗兰克·加西亚表示，移民-owned 企业正被迫相互对立，并敦促市政厅转而支持私人采购集团模式。
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有意运营纽约市计划中的政府所有杂货店的私人运营商收到警告：如果加入佐赫兰·曼达尼市长的项目，反对该计划的杂货商表示，他们可能会被告上法庭。
“我们会追究所有参与其中的运营商，”领导移民-owned 杂货商联盟挑战该市计划的弗兰克·加西亚周一在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
“我们希望没人会提交招标建议书。”
NEW YORK CITY IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNERS ARE PLANNING TO SUE MAMDANI OVER TAXPAYER-FUNDED SUPERMARKETS
纽约市移民企业主计划就纳税人资助的超市起诉曼达尼
纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼于2026年8月12日在纽约市州长办公室举行的“反抗移民海关执法局”外展项目公告上发言。（路透社/大卫·迪·德尔加多）
加西亚是多元文化商业联盟的主席，他指的是纽约市的招标邀请，该邀请寻求私人运营商运营曼达尼提议的五家由纳税人资助的杂货店。根据该计划，入选运营商将获得市政府支持的场地，同时同意以比典型纽约市零售价低30%的价格销售核心杂货套餐。
多元文化商业联盟周一对该市提起两起诉讼，称这些纳税人资助的商店将与已经在微薄利润中挣扎的少数族裔和移民-owned 企业进行不公平竞争。加西亚表示，该联盟现在打算将这场法律斗争延伸到签署协议运营这些商店的私营公司。
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杂货店主警告：曼达尼的市营商店将政府与“本国公民”对立
这一威胁发出之际，该市正从宣传该概念转向寻找愿意运营它的公司。
纽约市经济发展公司于7月正式开启运营商招标邀请，寻求最多五家公司运营这些商店。提案提交截止日期为10月16日。
曼达尼表示，这五家商店每个行政区各一家，预计将于2029年前开业。市政府表示，购物者将在包括新鲜农产品、肉类和海鲜以及牛奶、面包、奶酪、意面、大米和豆类等主食的套餐上享受固定30%的折扣。
La Marqueta, a Latino marketplace in East Harlem, New York, is chosen as the site of the first city-owned grocery store announced by NYC Mayor Mamdani on April 14, 2026.(Newsday via Getty Images)
拉·马尔凯塔是纽约东哈莱姆的一个拉丁裔市场，被选为纽约市市长曼达尼于2026年4月14日宣布的首家市营杂货店的选址。（《新闻日报》/盖蒂图片社）
然而，现有杂货商辩称，他们将被迫与无需承担自身成本（尤其是租金）的商店竞争。
曼达尼驳斥了市营商店会让社区小杂货店倒闭的说法，指出市营门店不会销售香烟、酒类、彩票或热食等收入来源，而这些正是维持小型社区商店的关键。市长还援引埃塞克斯市场等公共市场模式作为证据，证明补贴市场与私营企业可以共存。
“我相信这一计划的合法性——它在法庭上站得住脚——也相信推行这一计划的重要性，”曼达尼在周一的新闻发布会上表示。
当被问及他能为担心失去生意的小杂货店店主做些什么时，曼达尼说：“我们能做的是继续我们全市范围内的做法，寻找削减成本和减少繁文缛节的方法，这是许多小杂货店老板在开展业务时不得不应对的。我们通过开放工作组已经发现了50多项潜在改革，包括目前需要分别申请热食和冷食、乳制品冷冻甜点两种不同许可证的问题。还有那些让小杂货店既难以在店内也难以在店外卖货的相关规定。”
市长办公室拒绝就加西亚所称的联盟寻求与曼达尼会面但未得到回应，以及他对参与运营商提起诉讼的威胁置评。
加西亚表示，他的联盟在诉诸法庭前曾寻求与曼达尼会面，但遭到拒绝，并称市长反而会见了一群多米尼加企业主，却排除了其他可能受该计划影响的移民和少数族裔企业。
“他让我们少数族裔企业之间相互对立，”加西亚说。
加西亚多次提及纽约小杂货店的移民历史，形容这些企业历经波多黎各、多米尼加、墨西哥和其他移民企业家代代相传。
他表示，他的联盟代表了这些企业更广泛的跨群体成员，包括拉丁裔、韩裔和阿拉伯裔店主。
市政府官员也在努力解决如何支持现有杂货商的问题，这些商家担心自己会因纳税人资助的商店而失去生意。
People shop for fruit at a grocery store in Manhattan on Dec. 13, 2025.(Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images)
2025年12月13日，人们在曼哈顿的一家杂货店选购水果。（查利·特里巴洛/法新社/盖蒂图片社）
纽约市经济发展公司（NYCEDC）负责纽约市杂货项目的高级副总裁韦弗利·尼尔近日表示，该机构正在考虑配套市政商店的拨款和其他激励措施，以支持周边社区的独立企业。
NYCEDC后来表示，目前并未考虑拨款，但该机构正在探索其他形式的援助，包括通过现有城市项目提供的潜在税收减免、激励措施和 zoning 优惠。
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曼达尼的市营杂货计划可能让纳税人承担每一根香蕉的成本
加西亚认为，该市应该将更多资源投入到已经存在的企业中。
他表示，联盟中的一些移民-owned 小杂货店难以获得可负担的资本，转而向收取高额利率的私人贷款人求助。
“现在很多这类小杂货店都在向掠夺性贷款人支付35%的贷款利息，”加西亚说。
他的批评并不只针对曼达尼和民主党人。
加西亚表示，共和党人也“伤害了我们”，指出联邦限制影响了绿卡持有者获得小企业管理局支持的贷款，并认为各政治派别的当选官员都未能帮助寻求可负担资本的移民企业家。
但加西亚将最尖锐的政治批评留给了曼达尼的民主社会主义盟友，称随着这场杂货商店之争升级，该联盟打算动员起来反对该运动。
“我们正在开辟一条对抗民主社会主义者组织（DSA）的道路，”加西亚说。
加西亚坚称，该联盟并非只是要求该市放弃降低杂货价格的努力。
他表示，与其创建新的市营竞争对手，杂货商们提议成立一个采购集团，让独立商店直接从制造商处采购商品，省去中间商，降低参与商店的成本。
“我们有其他解决方案，”加西亚说。“与我们合作创建这个模式吧。”
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加西亚表示，该联盟认为该市可以利用现有的少数族裔企业项目和其采购权来扩大这一模式，让私人社区商店降低价格，而不必让它们与免租金的市营商店竞争。
“为什么不与我们合作创建这个模式呢？”加西亚说。“与超市协会合作。”
Grocers issue warning over Mamdani’s taxpayer-backed stores: ‘We’re going to go after’ them
August 26, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
Coalition led by Frank Garcia filed two lawsuits Monday and vows legal action against companies responding to the city’s RFP
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Frank Garcia says immigrant-owned businesses are being pitted against one another and urges City Hall to back a private buying-group model instead.
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Private operators looking to run New York City’s planned government-owned grocery stores are being put on notice: Join Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s program, and grocers fighting the plan say they could face you in court.
“We’re going to go after any operator that’s in there,” Frank Garcia, who is leading a coalition of immigrant-owned grocers challenging the city’s plan, told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday.
“We’re hoping that no one puts the RFP.”
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during an announcement on the Standing Up to ICE outreach program at the governor’s office in New York City, Aug. 12, 2026.(REUTERS/David Dee Delgado)
Garcia, chairman of the Multicultural Business Coalition, was referring to New York City’s request for proposals seeking private operators to run the five taxpayer-backed grocery stores Mamdani has proposed. Under the program, selected operators would receive city-backed space while agreeing to sell a core basket of groceries at prices 30% below typical New York City retail prices.
The Multicultural Business Coalition filed two lawsuits against the city Monday, arguing the taxpayer-backed stores would unfairly compete with minority- and immigrant-owned businesses already operating on thin margins. Garcia said the coalition now intends to extend that legal fight to private companies that sign on to operate the stores.
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The threat comes as the city moves from pitching the concept to trying to find companies willing to run it.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation formally opened the operator RFP in July and is seeking up to five companies to operate the stores. Proposals are due Oct. 16.
Mamdani has said the five stores, one in each borough, are expected to open by 2029. The administration says shoppers would receive a fixed 30% discount on a basket that includes fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with staples such as milk, bread, cheese, pasta, rice and beans.
La Marqueta, a Latino marketplace in East Harlem, New York, is chosen as the site of the first city-owned grocery store announced by NYC Mayor Mamdani on April 14, 2026.(Newsday via Getty Images)
Existing grocers, however, argue they would be forced to compete against stores insulated from costs they have to shoulder themselves, particularly rent.
Mamdani has pushed back on claims that the municipal stores would put neighborhood bodegas out of business, pointing out that the city-backed locations would not sell products such as cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets or hot foods — revenue streams that can help sustain smaller neighborhood stores. The mayor has also pointed to public-market models such as Essex Market as evidence that subsidized markets and private businesses can coexist.
“I’m confident in both the legality of this – that it will stand up in court – and the importance of delivering it,” Mamdani said in a news conference on Monday.
Asked what he was doing for bodega owners who worry about losing business, Mamdani said: “What we can do is continue with our approach citywide of looking for ways to cut costs and cut the regulations that so many bodegueros, as well as grocery store owners, have to jump through in order to do their work. What we have already found through our OPEN Task Force is already the identification of more than 50 potential changes that target things from the current necessity of having two different licenses to sell hot food and cold, dairy frozen dessert. As well as the kinds of things that make it harder for bodegas to both sell items outside of the store and inside of the store.”
The mayor’s office declined to comment on Garcia’s claim that his coalition sought a meeting with Mamdani and did not respond to his threat of litigation against participating operators.
Garcia said his coalition sought a meeting with Mamdani before going to court but was rebuffed, alleging the mayor instead met with a group of Dominican business owners while leaving out other immigrant and minority-owned businesses that could be affected by the plan.
“He’s putting our minority businesses against minority businesses,” Garcia said.
Garcia repeatedly invoked the immigrant history of New York’s bodegas, describing businesses that have passed through generations of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican and other immigrant entrepreneurs.
His coalition, he said, represents a broader cross-section of those businesses, including Latino, Korean and Arab store owners.
City officials have also wrestled with how to support existing grocers that fear they could lose business to the taxpayer-backed stores.
People shop for fruit at a grocery store in Manhattan on Dec. 13, 2025.(Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images)
Waverly Neer, a senior vice president at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) who leads the NYC Groceries initiative, recently said the agency was considering grants and other incentives that could accompany the municipal stores and support independent businesses in surrounding neighborhoods.
NYCEDC later said grants were not currently under consideration but that the agency was exploring other forms of assistance, including potential tax abatements, incentives and zoning benefits through existing city programs.
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Garcia argues the city should put more of its resources behind businesses that already exist.
He said some immigrant-owned bodegas in his coalition have struggled to access affordable capital and turned instead to private lenders charging steep rates.
“A lot of these bodegas are paying 35% loans right now to predator lenders,” Garcia said.
His criticism was not reserved for Mamdani or Democrats.
Garcia said Republicans have also “hurt us,” pointing to federal restrictions affecting access to Small Business Administration-backed loans for green-card holders, while arguing elected officials across the political spectrum have failed immigrant entrepreneurs seeking affordable capital.
But Garcia saved his sharpest political criticism for Mamdani’s democratic socialist allies, saying the coalition intends to mobilize against the movement as its fight over the grocery stores expands.
“We are creating a path to go after the DSA,” Garcia said.
Garcia insisted the coalition is not simply asking the city to abandon its effort to bring down grocery prices.
Instead of creating new city-backed competitors, he said grocers have proposed forming a buying group that would allow independent stores to purchase goods directly from manufacturers, cutting out middlemen and lowering participating stores’ costs.
“We have other solutions,” Garcia said. “Work with us to create that.”
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Garcia said the coalition believes the city could use existing minority-business programs and its purchasing power to expand the model, allowing private neighborhood stores to lower prices without forcing them to compete against rent-free municipal stores.
“Why not work with us to create that?” Garcia said. “Work with the supermarket association.”