Fresh Direct

Fairway, FreshDirect, and the Importance of Neighborhood Stores

Neighborhood Store

Our core mission here at NYAGS is to advocate on behalf of the city’s hundreds of thousands of Mom and Pop stores who we feel are the lifeblood of New York-creating the commerce and jobs, for sure, but also giving life, vitality and character to the hundreds of diverse neighborhoods that make up this great town. Central to this mission is our support of the local supermarkets that are the crucial traffic builders who feed the smaller shops as the folks come to the neighborhood shopping strip to buy their groceries.

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Supermarkets Continue to Disappear: Bloomberg Subsidizes FreshDirect

Fresh Direct

We have been pointing out that the city’s outrageous subsidy of FreshDirect runs counter to the much ballyhooed policy of supporting local supermarkets-stores that have been disappearing at an alarming rate. It makes no sense to throw $127 million at a company that will put neighborhood stores at risk.

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FreshDirect: Stop the Handout

Fresh Direct

There is an ongoing campaign against the city and state decision to give a $127 million hand out to the online grocer Fresh Direct. The campaign is being led by a coalition of South Bronx groups-aided and abetted by Good Jobs New York and NY Lawyers in the Public Interest.

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