mayor<\/a> stressed that requiring identification to purchase groceries was simply common sense, adding that only conspiracy theorists would object to basic anti-fraud measures.<\/p>\n“We have overwhelming evidence that grocery fraud exists,” Mamdani said while standing in front of a chart detailing alleged barcode anomalies. “Yet there are still extremists insisting anyone should be able to walk into a government supermarket and purchase taxpayer-subsidized potatoes without first proving who they are. Frankly, grocery fraud denial has become a serious problem.”<\/p>\n
To combat what officials described as a growing wave of grocery misinformation, the city announced the creation of the Office of Grocery Integrity, which will monitor public discourse for claims that grocery fraud is rare, overblown, or not worth requiring ID over.<\/p>\n
At press time, the ACLU was reportedly unable to decide whether they should sue the city for disenfranchising minority shoppers or praise the administration for finally bringing a government-owned supermarket to the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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