Lidl continues to expand in New York despite the plans of the mayor’s candidate

Lidl pushes forward with plans to expand its scope in New York, even with the promotion of mayor Zahran Mamdani as a proposal City -owned grocery stores It aims to reduce food costs.

German groceries, which wanted to enhance its presence in the United States, opened three stores in New York this year, including one in the lower Manhattan earlier this month. Joel Rambelt, CEO of Lidl US, told Fox Business that the company plans to open four in the “near future”.

If elected in November, Mamdani, a Member of the New York State Council He, who is a self -democratic socialism, said that he will redirect the city’s funds from the company’s supermarkets to the grocery stores owned by the city “whose mission is low in prices, not nomination of prices,” according to a video posted on its campaign on the Internet.

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The advertisement has not changed the Lidl expansion plans over the next five years.

“We will continue to invest in New York. We will continue to open the stores there,” Ramdolt said.

The company is currently running 190 stores in the United States, 35 of which are in New York State. As of Thursday, there are nine in New York City.

However, it focuses on adding more stores in its three basic markets: the New York Metro, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, where it tries to enhance its American mark.

Rampoldt has not provided an accurate number of stores that you plan to open over the next five years, although he made it clear that the company will be “adding stores stabilizing”.

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He faced other executives of the grocery, specifically John Katmsatidis, CEO of the grocery chain, who threatened to sell or close business if Mamdani was elected. Catsimatidis argued that his business could not compete in the market if there are the city -run supermarkets.

But Mamdani’s nomination has proven to be controversial with many business community members, especially Jimmy Damon from Wall Street, because of the fact that he has fought a number of controversial policy proposals that could prove costly to the city’s finance. Regardless of the government -run grocery stores, Mamdani also carried a campaign on things such as freezing rent and higher taxes on companies and wealthy people.

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However, Damon, who opposed his progressive platform, described him as “more than Marxist more than socialism”, had a friendly phone call with a mayor’s candidate last week as he maintained strong progress in the New York City mayor’s race heading to the general elections in November.

Mamdani faces a crowded field that includes former ruler Andrew Como and current mayor Eric Adams, who runs as an independent candidate, Republican candidate Cortis Salwa, and the independent candidate for the defense lawyer.