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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Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966
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Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air.
Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, showering glass everywhere. An electrician has been summoned. Happily, the television remained on.
“Do I have Netflix?” She feigns astonishment at my question. “Is the Pope a Catholic?” The delights of Netflix – or “Lady Nettie” as she calls it – are something the family talks about all the time. She is particularly fond of Shtisel, a subtitled Israeli soap opera set in a Hassidic community in Jerusalem. “Akive,” she sighs, recalling the good-looking, permanently bewilder
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