Aussie experience shows NZ should ‘go nuclear’ on supermarkets
ANALYSIS: Australia has done a lot of complaining in the past 20 years about its supermarket duopoly but has taken little action. Meanwhile, the duopoly has become more entrenched.
New Zealand is the second-most concentrated grocery market after Finland, and Australia is third.
As part of his election campaign posturing, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a crackdown on big supermarkets “taking the piss” and price gouging consumers, who are also voters.
In language that may not have been exactly prime ministerial, Albanese came out with what he
