John MacDonald: Our shopping is part of the supermarket problem too
I think I’m going to be the only person in New Zealand today who’s going to say ‘stop beating up on the supermarkets’.
The Government has released details of what it’s going to do to try and help us pay less for our food and groceries at Pak ‘n’ Save, Countdown, New World, Four Square, Fresh Choice and Super Value.
The whole lot of them.
It comes after the Commerce Commission looked into how the supermarket companies have been operating here. You’ll remember it found things like supermarket companies holding on to big blocks of land so competitors couldn’t set-up shop nearby and suppliers…
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