The owner of Gristedes said he’d lend a supermarket to City Hall to test one liberal candidate’s “Soviet”-style plan for government-run grocery stores – if he’ll pay for shoplifting losses.
John Catsimatidis, the billionaire mogul behind the Gristedes and D’Agostino food chains, pledged he would be “helpful” after Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani unveiled a plan to create a network of city-run supermarkets.
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“If they want to try an experiment, I will be helpful — as long as the city makes up the shortfall for shoplifting,” Catsimatidis told The Post…