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Article – Gordon Campbell Are we paying too much for our groceries? Hmm. Is the Pope a Catholic? Given that the two Australian supermarket chains that dominate our grocery industry routinely rack up profits in the order of $22 billion annually, thats a no-brainer. Yet …
Are we paying too much for our groceries? Hmm. Is the Pope a Catholic? Given that the two Australian supermarket chains that dominate our grocery industry routinely rack up profits in the order of $22 billion annually, that’s a no-brainer. Yet as with New Zealand’s other socio-economic problems created by our 1980s reforms, the practical solutions seem pretty thin on the ground. As with banking, electricity generation/retail pricing, the fledgling telecommunications sector etc those hallowed “free market forces never really had a dog’s chance of functioning adequately in a country as small as New Zealand. Markets simply converged. What we got landed with were cartels, duopolies and near-monopolies. Whic
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 1:31 pm
Are
we paying too much for our groceries? Hmm. Is the Pope a
Catholic? Given that the two Australian supermarket chains
that dominate our grocery industry routinely rack up profits
in the order of $22 billion annually, that’s a no-brainer.
Yet as with New Zealand’s other socio-economic problems
created by our 1980s reforms, the practical solutions seem
pretty thin on the ground. As with banking, electricity
generation/retail pricing, the fledgling telecommunications
sector etc those hallowed “free market forces never really
had a dog’s chance of functioning adequately in a country
as small as New Zealand. Markets simply converged. What we
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Downtown Greeley on the morning of the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Greeley is in Weld County, which voted overwhelmingly in favor of re-electing Donald Trump in November s election.
Across the street from an 8-foot tall Statue of Liberty replica donated by the Boy Scouts of America in 1950, Greeley resident Ken Sudduth mused Wednesday about the current state of affairs happening more than 1,600 miles away in Washington, D.C.
Sudduth said he thought the U.S. House of Representatives should be focusing their attention elsewhere, and not on impeachment of President Donald Trump. Nearby, a flag pole flew a large American flag. Just under it, a Trump flag flew.