GAGGING for Fairly Priced Groceries
Ive been absent from blogging on this site for a while, but for a good reason. Ive been preoccupied helping to set up the Grocery Action...
Peter Griffin and "Business of Tech" Podcast
Caught up this week with my old mate Peter Griffin, and recorded this podcast - mainly about the parallels and differences between the...
More Mongrel Please, Pierre!
Here's my opinion piece today in Supermarket News calling on the new Grocery Commissioner to put real focus onto market structure and...
Supermarkets - a Solution
So here's a really good solution to the problem of market failure in the grocery sector, staring us in the face. Foodstuffs are wanting...
Coalition talks should feature supermarket reform
New Zealand First has one thing absolutely right in its manifesto, in promising to "force the supermarket duopoly to divest themselves of...
Now published - My Memoir "Thank God It's Monday"
Ive just today published my memoirs in the form of a 50,000 word e-book. Its focused on a fascinating career embracing multiple...
ComCom Right on Mobile Roaming - But There's a Wider Concern
The Commerce Commission has done exactly the right thing in continuing the regulation of mobile roaming as set out in its media release...
Transparency, Eyes Off the Ball, and Perceptions of Corruption
Should Kiwis be worried if government policy formation is being heavily influenced by private sector interests to their own ends? Or if...
Is Supermarket Advertising Power Influencing Journalism?
12 February 2023 Who, like me, has wondered why there is so little push from mainstream media about the crying need for a compulsory...
Health IT - Failure to Learn from Failure
I’m in Rotorua at Digital Health Week, the annual conference of Health Informatics NZ or HINZ. I’ve attended 3 or 4 times over the past...