Mike Hosking: Are we really being ripped off by the supermarkets?
Funny how the old corporate world works.
Countdown freezes prices. Or do they? No one believes them, thus indicating whether they are or not, they are probably wasting their time.
Not to be outdone, Foodstuffs enters and tells us they are reducing the price of more than 100 items by 10 percent. Are they? I think the same number of people who believe the Countdown claim believe the Foodstuffs claim.
I'm not bothered the same way some people are by all of this. Mainly, because I am convinced of several things. By in large, we are not ripped off in the grocery department. Our prices broadly…
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