Election Hoon: How should the supermarkets duopoly be broken up?
National, Labour, NZ First, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori have all released policies for major state intervention in the supermarkets sector to break up or challenge the duopoly of Foodstuffs (Pak n’ Save, New World & Four Square) and Woolworths in recent weeks.
National and NZ First have proposed breaking up Foodstuffs into separate competing Pak n’ Save and New World/Four square chains, while leaving Woolworths intact.
Labour has proposed forcing both Foodstuffs and Woolworths to run their wholesale operations independently from their retail stores in a structural separation that echoes the…
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