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

  • Written by: Lisa M. Katerina Asher, Retail Expert, PhD Candidate & Sessional Academic, University of Sydney

Two of the dominant players in New Zealand’s supermarket sector – Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island – have failed in their quest to officially join forces.

In a decision announced yesterday, the Commerce Commission declined to green-light the merger between the two cooperatives. The watchdog said it was not...

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