Grocers filed a federal antitrust lawsuit to block the Mamdani administration’s plan to push forward with city-owned supermarkets — claiming the proposal would create unfair competition for nearby grocery stores and bodegas.
In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the US Southern District of New York, the National Supermarket Association asked a judge to delay a city bidding process that seeks an operator for the municipal stores so it can rule on whether the program violates antitrust laws.
Bids to operate the stores are due on Oct. 16, but the complaint asks the court to first make its ruling, with any new bidding deadline to be set 30 days…
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