Do you hear about the prediction market grocery wars?

No, what's going on over there?

So in New York City, Polly Market and Kalshi are doing dueling stunts involving groceries.

So Kalshi launched a $50 grocery giveaway at an East Village grocery store.

And Polly Market said that they are opening a whole grocery store that's going to be totally free,

subsidized, of course, by the tears of the gambling addicts who powered their site.

Wait, a free grocery store? A free grocery store? They're calling it the polymarket. I checked

it's not just for poly people. If you're monogamous, you can go to. But yeah, for five days,

they're doing a free grocery store in New York City.

Just for five days.

Yeah.

It seems...

I saw someone make a comment about this online, which is, it seems like these people feel

like they have about 20 minutes left to generate goodwill before they're just sort of shut down by the police.

Is that what's going on here?

I'm not sure what's going on. I don't think you open a free grocery store if you don't think that people are about to crash the gates and take down your entire operation. No, I think this is sort of like how the, you know, if you go to a casino in Vegas, like they give you free drinks if you're at the table, you know. Or they used to, you know, but when Vegas was good. Yeah. Yes. You know what would be a good prediction market is a market that could predict where all of the items I want to buy are. I know we've all spent a lot of time walking down those aisles saying, where's the pasta sauce in this grocery store? Somebody should predict that.

Is this a Seinfeld bit?

Yeah, I'm doing my type 5.

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I'm Kevin Bruce, a tech columnist at the New York Times.

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