Mark Mitchell

retailers to try and survive through this year yeah so how much how that's the real question going forward isn't it how worried are you about inflation because i think i think petrol stabilized ish but if people start passing on their costs that means everything else then goes up which means you're in trouble yeah well of course the the big thing for retail is diesel because uh diesel is what ships freight around so even if you you know majority of things as we know come into the country from overseas so that's freighted in those

What are they telling you?

I mean, who's hit?

Is it hospo or anyone else?

We just don't know yet.

Everyone.

Everyone.

So how then do you explain, not that I disagree with you, but how do you explain the variability regionally?

Palmerston North is up 4.8, Nelson's up 4.2, the coast is up 3%.

The war affects them as well.

Yeah, these are interesting times.

Go well, Carolyn.

Hold tough.

Carolyn Young, who's Retail New Zealand's CEO, of course.

And I hope that that once and for all settles the argument, as proposed by a number of people who texted me, but more importantly, the Labour Party, who somehow want to be the government, when they were saying the government was going to get much more GST because we were spending so much more on petrol.

Anyone who knows anything about basic economics knows if you've got $100, you've got $100.

And if you spend $100, the GST on $100 is still the same.

It just doesn't matter where you spend it.

Right, so here's how this works.

Most of us are pretty good at routine health checks, right?