2 Aug 2021

Bernard Hickey on the supermarket duopoly conundrum

From Afternoons, 1:17 pm on 2 August 2021

Last week the Commerce Commission put out a draft review of the retail grocery sector, suggesting the government intervene in our supermarket duopoly.

It found our grocery prices as some of the highest in the OECD, with our two major supermarkets taking massive margins.

Business columnist Bernard Hickey, who writes the newsletter The Kākā talks to Jesse about why he thinks very little will change.

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