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Andrew Dickens: Cost of living's become an election issue and supermarkets are getting the blame
The cost of living is once again a key issue in the election
But what seems strange to me is that somehow New Zealanders believe it’s a problem that only affects us. A cursory skim through international papers shows it’s an issue for every market on earth
Here much blame has been heaped on supermarkets
Our duopoly of massive supermarkets are viewed with suspicion with many, including politicians believing they’re rorting us and every party having some sort of proposal to reign them in
National and New Zealand First want to break the duopoly up forcibly in classic command economy style…
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