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The Foodstuffs merger is dead – but that still won’t fix NZ’s over-concentrated supermarket sector

By Lisa M. Katerina Asher, Retail Expert, PhD Candidate & Sessional Academic, University of Sydney
Drew Franklin, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

New Zealanders have less choice over their grocery shop than consumers in most developed countries. Breaking up the existing supermarket conglomerates would be a next logical step.

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