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An immigrant-led business group is gearing up to sue New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s controversial plan to open five taxpayer-funded supermarkets \u2014 claiming the $70 million project will create unfair competition for nearby stores, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

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As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week \u2014 including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread \u2013 the Multicultural Business Coalition\u2019s board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group\u2019s chairman Frank Garcia told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mayor doesn\u2019t seem to want to sit down with us,\u201d Garcia said, adding that Mamdani \u201cwon\u2019t be able to bully these lawyers we are going to bring in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

MBC \u2014 formed earlier this year to create a unified front against Mamdani\u2019s grocery policy \u2014 includes 50 chambers of commerce representing Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Jewish-owned businesses in New York.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit MBC plans to raise $1 million to fight some of the mayor\u2019s initiatives, Garcia said, adding that the suit \u201cshould be a non-partisan initiative.\u201d The group plans to send a letter in the coming days notifying Mamdani\u2019s office of its plans to take legal action.<\/p>\n

The funds will go toward the lawsuit and efforts to raise awareness about the plight of its mom-and-pop shop members, many of whom struggle to secure capital, fend off shoplifters and keep up with rising costs including rent and taxes.<\/p>\n

Garcia declined to go into detail about the specific allegations in the forthcoming suit.<\/p>\n

Several groups and prominent individuals, including conservative think tanks and politicians \u2013 whom Garcia declined to identify \u2013 oppose the mayor\u2019s socialist agenda and have offered funding and assistance to MBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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MBC and other groups representing thousands of grocery stores and bodegas including the National Supermarket Association gripe that the city is pursuing the government-run supermarkets regardless of whether they hurt existing stores in lower-income areas that are already feeling major financial pressures.<\/p>\n

In particular, they have pointed to five bodegas within just a few blocks of the city-run stored planned for East Harlem, in the space known as La Marqueta.<\/p>\n

Some of those Harlem store owners fear they will be put out of business when customers discover the cheaper prices at Mamdani\u2019s stores \u2013 which will not pay rent because they will be built on municipal property, according to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving items that sell for 30% less than our prices, means nobody will go to our stores,\u201d Radhames Rodriguez, president of the United Bodegas of America told The Post.<\/p>\n

Since Mamdani announced his grocery-store plan earlier this year, city officials have met in private with small business leaders. But the confabs \u2014 in which businessmen were asked for details about their best-selling items \u2014 only heightened the grocers\u2019 concerns, as The Post previously reported.<\/p>\n

The mayor says shoppers won\u2019t be able to find hot food or other common bodega staples like alcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets at the city-run stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not looking to compete with bodegas or grocery stores when it comes to their ability to survive,\u201d he said at a Monday press conference touting his shops, the first of which is scheduled to open next year in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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