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SF was headed for government-backed groceries. Lurie and Amazon had other plans
San Francisco was pursuing government-backed grocery initiatives, but Lurie and Amazon opposed the plan. Supervisor Bilal Mahmood introduced a law modeled after Zohran Mamdani's approach to fund affordable grocery stores.
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