More than four years after the Commerce Commission issued a damning stocktake, Foodstuffs and Woolworths still dominate about 82% of New Zealand’s grocery market. How to drive supermarket competition up, and grocery prices down, has now become an election battleground. National and New Zealand First want structural changes to Foodstuffs.
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