Tougher action needed to end grocery duopoly

Pressure group Consumer NZ has urged the government to consider regulating wholesale supply to the country’s supermarkets or creating a state-owned wholesaler to head off food price rises.

The group said recent recommendations in a Commerce Commission grocery market study did not go far enough and relied too much on the willingness of the country’s major supermarket chains to supply competitors at a fair wholesale price.

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Tougher action needed to end grocery duopoly

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