Nicola Willis just helped the Supermarket duopoly – she didn’t help you!
How stupid does Nicola Willis think we are?
She announces a huge cost of living crisis announcement on Supermarkets that turns out to be nothing more than reducing the building of new supermarkets from 18months to 12months!
THAT ONLY HELPS THE CURRENT DUOPOLY BUILD MORE SUPERMARKETS!
IT WON’T DO A FUCKING THING ABOUT BREAKING THE DUOPOLY – IT WILL EMPOWER THEM!
FFS, are you honestly this stupid Kiwis?
We need to break the supermarket duopoly, that is what the commerce Commission has been advising ever since it started looking at the problem, Labour were too spineless to do anything when they were in power and now Nicola Willis has proven herself too gutless as well.
ACT are crowing she made the right decision by not breaking up the Duopoly which is as damning an indictment that you can get.
We need a third player backed by the Government and Iwi!
The cost of living crisis is destroying Kiwis.
Voters need hope that their basic costs will come down.
Covid taught us food security matters and a Supermarket chain that embeds a cheaper food security while supporting local supplies is a necessity to correct a broken market!
Government should enter into a deal with Iwi to stock a new chain of Government/Iwi Supermarkets that champion local produce at better prices for the consumer and better worker conditions.
We need a kiwi subsidy on all local produce to recognize that producers have already used water and created local climate changing gases to create their product and as such consumers have already paid a price just to get the product to their table.
We should feed the 5million here first before boasting about feeding 40million world wide!
Calls to ‘feed the 5 million first’ before exporting NZ food
People are going hungry even though New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million – and it’s spurring calls for the country to “feed the five million first”.
Almost 40 percent of New Zealand households experience food insecurity, while 19 percent of children live in households that experience food insecurity.
Poverty researcher Dr Rebekah Graham said while working on her thesis on food insecurity, she interviewed a woman who walked for 90 minutes each day to get a free community meal.
A state owned 3rd supermarket chain would do more for providing a cheaper means of living to all kiwis who have food security issues. It would do more for welfare than any single PM since Savage.
A state owned supermarket chain that radically forced competition on base level cost of living for a vast swathe of New Zealanders would be a legacy worthy of Labour.
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueler to corporations.
Cyclone Gabrielle changes everything, you must accept that some big vision projects are necessary and not just more tinkering?
The people are hurting economically, is the Left so bereft of ideas beyond middle class identity politics virtue signals that we have nothing to offer them?
As I have said time and time again, if you don’t want the poor to have their economic misery manipulated by the Right, then do something about their economic misery!
The Supermarket Duopoly is still operating and still price gouging, we don’t have effective market competition, the Commerce Commission has the power and has previously recommended the State seize 30% of the existing Duopoly and force entry level competition as a 3rd player.
It requires spine.
It’s time the Political Left grew a spine.
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Bring back the Four Square plus farmers markets and in every town from Reinga to the Bluff
There is 5 Farmers Markets in Christchurch and other ones in surrounding towns so they have not gone away .The problem is people are too lazy to shop where items are not nicely packaged and all under one roof .
Thanks Bomber. There is socialist mayoral candidate in NY who has proposed the idea of a city run grocery chain that will provide the basics at stable prices. This feels similar and probably the only realistic way to make food genuinely affordable. How on earth you’d get that up and running I have no idea. Everything currently is so geared up for profit making.
Yup wasn’t expecting much from the ‘big announcement’ yesterday but even still the Nats always surprise me with how little is revealed when the smoke clears . . dah dah . . fuck all (again).
No matter who you get to own and run the supermarket they will be faced with shrinkage by staff at all levels and shoplifting at scale by those who have no respect for the property of others. It is not possible to have an honest pricing model in a dishonest society as the probably small number of offenders means that everyone else has to pay extra so the shop can stay in business. The system is broken and no amount of bandaid will get it to the sort of utopia that we would all like to live in.
we need a ‘left’ with a spine and an imagination. Try any and everything that breaks the camel’s back.
– Maybe including a quota system perhaps – such that food producers (farmers, orchard owners, etc.) must sell 105 (or whatever) domestically.
– Also breakup the vertical integration of everything to do with food production.
– Food warehousing at key points near rail hubs (Northland, Feiding, Blenheim, Rolleston ) setup/owned by a consortium such as NZPost, Mainfreight, Kiwirail, Ngai Tahu and others)
* 10 %
(15% if necessary)
The easy solution is to take the wholesale business away from the duo and make the new owner sell to all retailers at the same price to all of the small enterprises that are in every town in the country .There is no need to build massive food sheds which cost millions and that cost has to be recovered by higher prices to the consumer .This could be done next week if the government had the balls to do it .Building massive food sheds in the big cities will not benefit the whole of NZ will it .Costco gloat about lowering price in their area but what about the rest of Auckland ,they would have to build another 5 or so to make any over all difference to every shopper in Auckland .
Gordon I surprise myself with the fact I agree with your idea it makes sense when you are talking about a country of 5 million.
I dislike Costco as their pitch is bulk buying which can easily lead to waste .This happened in the UK and I understand the government outlawed the promotion of buy 2 get 1 free
If Labour want to win the next election they would promise to actually implement the break up of monopolies, duopolies, oligopolies with anti-trust laws that prevent the formation in the first place and structural breakups. As Bernard Hickey mentions Labour did it before with Telecom Vodafone and 2degrees. A promise of lower food insurance and electricity prices with an actual plan of how and who is going to make it happen is a vote winner from all who are affected by high food, electric and insurance prices – currently everyone and every business.
https://youtu.be/NtW7sW4vsIE?feature=shared
And in the fresh fruit and vegetable section today we have a special on lemons. Lots of lemons.
The existing supermarkets should not be able to be retailers and wholesalers. They should be one of the other but not both.
The existing supermarkets should not be able to be retailers and wholesalers. They should be one of the other but not both.
Nice picture of Willis pimping herself in a local supermarket .She is on special this week ,two fuckups for the price of one .
Nic has her ACT PARTY suit on today .