Grocery store managers are raising concerns about the Trump administration’s cuts to SNAP benefits, which they say are likely to harm not only households but local businesses that depend on customers’ food dollars.
Kristie Pimentel, manager of Super Fresh East 149, has been all-in at her family’s grocery business since 2021, after a stint in corporate advertising. Members of her family on both sides have owned grocery businesses in the Dominican Republic, and her father, Frank, “eats, lives, breathes supermarkets” as the owner of nine stores in the Bronx and citywide, Pimentel said.
