{"id":563595,"date":"2026-02-03T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:42:15","slug":"how-to-get-free-groceries-in-nyc-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563595\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get FREE groceries in NYC today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/407bln4w5ysf8kl7.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the TikTok-famous Tribeca grocery where shoppers splurge on $65 olive oil and $15 chicken nuggets\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; As grocery prices continue to squeeze New Yorkers, one East Village market is offering a rare relief: free food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text\">&#8220;Your $50 grocery tab is on Kalshi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Starting at 12 p.m. Tuesday, anyone in New York City can pick up free groceries at Westside Market, 84 Third Ave., in the East Village, according to a social media post from prediction-market platform Kalshi.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Free groceries for everyone\u2019  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The event was promoted online with the tagline &#8220;F it. Free groceries for everyone&#8221; by Kalshi, which operates a federally regulated exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Apparently the limit on free groceries is $50.<\/p>\n<p> What is Kalshi? <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Kalshi is a federally regulated web-based prediction betting platform that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events, such as economic data, interest rate decisions and government actions.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/groceries1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">A woman shops in a produce section in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Chernin\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Westside Market, a grocery store open 24 hours a day, is expected to host the giveaway at its Third Avenue location.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Organizers did not immediately respond to requests for details on how many people could take part or how long the giveaway would last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This report is based on information from Kalshi.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/good-day\/things-to-do-nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things to do NYC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/manhattan\/east-village\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Village<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; As grocery prices continue to squeeze New Yorkers, one East Village market is offering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":563596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,26307,33652,5249,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,37722,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-563595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-east-village","tag-good-day","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-things-to-do-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116007465460916424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}