Nicola Willis
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1,461 appearances
27 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
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Incorrect and in fact what the analysis shows is that Woolworths will not be getting off scot free here.
The ensuing price war that would occur with a restructure of this sort will affect Woolworths too.
They will be forced to increase their range and offer lower prices as well.
Not true.
What the report says overall is that the benefits of lower prices would flow to all regions, including rural areas where there's currently very limited choice for many New Zealanders and small communities.
The evidence is there would be a much greater incentive for PAC and Save to compete and set up potentially alternative formats and compete for those customers.
In fact, some of those rural stores are more profitable than stores in urban areas.
Uh, because I haven't had evidence that says that anything of this sort would enhance banking competition.
Uh the advice I've received on banks is first deal with the regulatory barriers, which we've been doing through the Reserve Bank, ensure you have open banking so new FinTechs can compete uh and ensure that the rules of the game don't stop Kiwi Bank and others from growing to scale so they can take on the incumbents.
Uh because with airlines, uh the economics says that actually the costs of setting up an airline in terms of buying all of those very expensive planes uh is such that it is very difficult for a new entrant to get to scale.
Uh what we have in New Zealand is watchdogs looking at the competitive tensions for in New Zealand.
It is the reality uh that w that we don't have evidence that we're seeing price gouging for New Zealand customers.
Uh because again what we've said is you actually need to increase the supply of electricity by getting rid of all the red tape that has stopped new solar and wind being built, and there's evidence that that is already flowing through to lower wholesale electricity prices.
That is the right response there.
Petrol stations, uh um studies have shown that we have a competitive fuel market in New Zealand and in fact.
Well, uh Jacinda Ardun said that, not me, and in fact recent evidence during the Well
Well, what we've seen during the Middle East conflict, uh in fact we've had the Commerce Commission monitoring it very closely, uh, is that we've seen heightened competition between petrol stations as they've competed to offer lower prices and get more customers in the door.
Uh, that would be a decision for Y Time O and Mobile, nothing to do with me.
Well, I think that should be for them as the independent watchdog to do a full competition assessment.
I don't think it's a matter of my reckons.
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