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GST Excuse For Cripplingly High Supermarket Prices Won’t Wash
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 4:02 pm | Grocery Action Group
What is vital for New Zealand’s future as a food producing nation, and for our government, is an answer as to why Kiwis pay nearly the highest prices in the world for food and groceries which several market studies have now confirmed,” Chetwin ... More >>
Stopping Foodstuffs Merger Offers Glimpse Of Hope For Competition
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 6:22 pm | Grocery Action Group
If the merger had been approved, the existing duopoly’s stranglehold on our food and grocery budgets would have been total and irreversible. Suppliers would also have seen their access to consumers reduced even further More >>
Australia's Consumer Watch Dog Shows Way To Go To Lower Food And Grocery Prices
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 7:02 am | Grocery Action Group
“The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking their two big supermarkets to court over fake discounting,” said Sue Chetwin, GAG’s chair. “We urge our Commerce Commission to scrutinise our supermarkets in the same way ... More >>
Supermarkets Have To Come Clean On Who Owns Them - GAG
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:44 am | Grocery Action Group
The proposed ‘merger’ is a matter of major public interest and the public deserves to know who and how they are owned. It’s also difficult to see what the South Island supermarket owners stand to get out of such a deal. More >>
Foodstuffs Fine Unfair To Consumers
Monday, 19 August 2024, 6:33 pm | Grocery Action Group
Whilst the decision served as a warning to supermarkets not to take part in anticompetitive conduct, the penalty hardly reflected the impact of a lack of competition for consumers. It was just a fraction of the $7.3 billion that could have been handed down under ... More >>
Large Supermarket Fine A Warning For Consumers
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 7:37 pm | Grocery Action Group
Today’s fine shows just how hard it is for competitors. It also comes against the backdrop of a new University of Auckland study on the impact of high food prices on our most vulnerable communities. More >>
Delay On Merger Decision Fiddling While The Household Budget Burns
Friday, 21 June 2024, 11:38 am | Grocery Action Group
A further delay to the Commerce Commission’s decision on the proposed merger of Foodstuffs North and South Islands is fiddling while the Kiwi household budget burns, the Grocery Action Group (GAG) says. More >>
Consumers Deserve To Know How Much Anti-competitive Supermarket Land Deals Have Cost Them At The Checkout
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 7:54 pm | Grocery Action Group
The public needs transparency around a deal the Commerce Commission has struck with Foodstuffs over its anti-competitive land covenants in the North Island, the Grocery Action Group (GAG) says. More >>
Consumers Losers In Foodstuffs Supermarket Owners Vote To Merge
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 10:49 am | Grocery Action Group
A vote by Foodstuffs supermarket owners to merge their North and South Island operations will further increase their dominance but consumers will be the losers at the checkout, the Grocery Action Group (GAG) says. More >>
Foodstuffs ‘10 Points’ Fail To Show Their Proposed Merger Would Lower Supermarket Prices
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 11:44 am | Grocery Action Group
A 10-point list published by Foodstuffs citing value for customers if their North and South Island operations are able to merge, flies in the face of research which shows they are making excessive profits while Kiwis pay some of the highest prices ... More >>
