What happens when Zohran Mamdani's ideas are put into practice? Seven years ago, Kansas City opened a city-run grocery store in the inner city, to fix the lack of options for locales. It's now a hangout for criminals and vagrants, avoided by shoppers. The shelves are empty. It lost almost $900K last year and smells like a sewer. Below is a picture of the tomato section, where they have a single tomato. In 2009, the City Council closed the local jail. They also made bus service free. Now, when criminals get picked up, they're immediately released and take the free bus back to the spot of their original crime.