Christopher Luxon
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2,961 appearances
36 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
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And what you saw even 25 years ago versus what you're seeing today is there's been a lot more consolidation, rightly or wrongly, because of the decisions of commerce commissions around different mergers that took place at different times over that period of time.
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But I just say, speaking from a global experience of having worked in grocery markets in 190 plus countries, I can't think of one that has 82% tied up with two players.
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wops?
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And we have done this really thoroughly.
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You were giving us grief for saying, look, you've opened up a conversation on supermarkets and you haven't got a solution to it.
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Well, actually, it's because we're trying to get the right analysis, modelling and independent appraisal of it.
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It's not something you rush into.
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There's a really high bar for making an intervention like this.
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This is why it's supermarket specific.
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That's why it's delivered through the Grocery Competition Act.
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And actually, we've got as a government, we've got all the analysis that's led to say banner separation, three nationwide chains competing with each other is actually we think the benefits outweigh the cost.
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Now, I've got all that analysis sitting there.
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What we're saying is we don't think as politicians just dreaming up where it feels like Labour's going for a policy that actually was rejected by the Commerce Commission.
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Kiwi Mart's another sort of intervention that's very communist and socialist.
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We're actually saying let's put it out of the hands of politicians.
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Give them six months.
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It's only six months.
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And if they say no, then we won't be doing
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they say yes,
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two pathways.
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