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Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 week only)
2-5-26
Kristen Altus

A prediction market company best known for allowing users to bet on world events is stepping into New York City’s food scene — if only briefly — with the launch of what it’s calling the city’s first-ever free grocery store.

Polymarket will be open for New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan starting at 12PM from Feb. 12 through Feb. 16, according to the NYC for Free website. It’s being described as the city’s first free grocery store, "fully stocked" and requiring no purchase.

Polymarket posted on X, Tuesday, that the idea took "months of planning." In addition to paying for the lease, the company said it had donated $1 million to Food Bank For New York City to support "an organization that changes how our city responds to hunger."

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How many hours after opening will it take for the shelves to be stripped clean...?
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #1 on: Today at 10:57:20 am »
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #2 on: Today at 10:59:18 am »
What are the rules?

You have to be "undocumented", "unhoused", "a POC" or something similar in order to carry things away? Does it have tables so you can eat in?
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #3 on: Today at 11:09:27 am »
How will they pay people to work there restocking shelves and with what if they’re generating no revenue?
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #4 on: Today at 11:13:12 am »
Rules:  No grocery carts allowed!   :crying:  :silly:
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #5 on: Today at 11:23:41 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 11:09:27 am
How will they pay people to work there restocking shelves and with what if they’re generating no revenue?

Stop being so darn logical.   :laugh:
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #6 on: Today at 11:43:41 am »
Oh the irony,....   
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #7 on: Today at 01:12:33 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 11:09:27 am
How will they pay people to work there restocking shelves and with what if they’re generating no revenue?

Polymarket will take the loss, this is all about brand promotion - a lot of people have never heard about Polymarket before, and don't know what it's about ("betting on anything"), so this is a good way to get wide publicity at a small cost

Especially if it descends into theft and violence, they get their name in the news!!
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Re: Betting company Polymarket opens NYC's first free grocery store in downtown Manhattan (for 1 wee
« Reply #8 on: Today at 07:10:10 pm »
So, what's the over/under on when the violence starts, and can we bet on which product running out will trigger it?
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