“You’ve just witnessed a crime. This could mean jail time.” That’s a quote from a catchy little video clip recently posted on the Commerce Commission Web site. It shows two real estate agents having coffee and agreeing to split their territory. “I’ll keep to the north of the main road and you keep to the south.” But it begs a massive question. If that applies to small real estate agents, surely it applies even more to a pair of the country’s biggest businesses? I’m talking ab

A let-down! That’s my reaction this morning after attending the announcement of a review of the Commerce Act, at the Wellington Chamber...

Nicola Willis’s announcement of an express lane for supermarkets has some positive features but is arguably fixing the wrong problem. New...

Foodstuffs North Island’s appointment of Stephen Joyce to its board is the best news I’ve heard for beleaguered grocery consumers for a...

15 July 2025 . Hallelujah! Its only a couple of weeks since I criticized the Commerce Commission’s action in “warning” Foodstuffs North...

The Grocery Commissioner’s slapping of a warning against Foodstuffs North Island for what can only be described as contemptuous treatment...

The Regulatory Standards Bill is a reprehensible attack on ordinary Kiwi citizens, setting out to entrench property rights -...

Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden has released this statement revealing two commercial behaviours he believes are “reinforcing”...

So ACT leader David Seymour has come up with a line discredited 20 years ago in response to Minister Willis’s supermarket breakup plans....

The announcement by Nicola Willis this morning moves the debate on market failure forward and is more positive than some observers had...