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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: The not-so-super rescue plan for shoppers
Description: It’s just over four years since the Commerce Commission released its first report on the supermarket sector in New Zealand and, yesterday, the Government announced what it’s going to do. Which, in my view, will achieve nothing. To be fair, Nicola Willis wasn’t in Government four years ago and it was Labour that received that first report and went about hiring the Grocery Commissioner. Who, I think we can all agree, has done next-to-nothing. My supermarket bills certainly haven’t got any cheaper since he’s been at his desk. So t...