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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Because the evidence is that yes, there are some efficiencies from economies of scale, but they are not flowing through to customers.
Instead, they're flowing up in the form of larger profits for the supermarkets.
Look around the world, countries of similar population, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Finland, they have at least three major competitor supermarkets, and those benefits flow through to consumers.
There's also evidence the other way that says when you get too many mergers,
is happening and there have been studies of grocery sectors, actually prices rise between two and five percent because again, the efficiency, yep, it's there, but guess who's benefiting from it?
The supermarket, not the shopper.
And I want a system in which the shopper is getting the benefits of competition, of price wars, all of those things.
They're not happening in New Zealand because we don't have a properly competitive market.
Oh no, just um incredibly grateful that we've actually got some cohesion finally in this response and um
been something I've been talking about for two and a half years, so it's really good that we're we're getting some real priority and traction in this space.
No, it is inclusive of it.
So it is this idea that um what what makes our country vulnerable and it it is this idea that we are being targeted and the criminal networks that do this.
I mean they're they're dragging money out of our economy, they're the corruption component, undermining our officials, undermining, you know, um the the
the the way we w operate cohesively as a government.
So it is really important that we have a much c better connected response to this space.
It is getting worse in that they move faster than we do.
I think the MAG report talked about, you know, they move at the speed of money, we move at the speed of law.
Um and the the level of sophistication, the way, you know, we've we've heard about the the cyber scam centres, we've we've heard about the way um you know
our our Pacific borders are being compromised as a transition point for drugs.
You know, the the first six months of this year we we intercepted fourteen tons of cocaine in the Pacific.
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