5 Aug 2020

Are supermarkets one step away from becoming a monopoly?

From Lately, 10:17 pm on 5 August 2020

During lockdown Consumer New Zealand did a survey of our supermarkets and it says that goods in on the shelves can be on 'special' so often that shoppers have good reason to question whether the discounts are real.

Karyn speaks with Consumer New Zealand's Jon Duffy who's calling for the Commerce Commission to investigate the supermarket sector in a similar way to what they did with the retail fuel market last year.

Queues at Mt Wellington supermarkets after it was announced the country is moving into alert level 3 and then 4 in the next few days.

Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly