John MacDonald: Has the Grocery Commissioner checked out? - Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald

Where's the grocery commissioner? Wasn’t he going to get cheaper groceries for all of us?

That was the idea. But he hasn’t.

So is Nicola Willis going to do it? My prediction, is she won’t.

Because, no matter how much we would all like to pay less at the supermarket, the two ideas she announced yesterday are duds.

And I’m picking that, if you did a grocery shop yesterday afternoon, the Government’s announcement-of-an-announcement yesterday morning did nothing to soften the blow when you went through the checkout.

So the Government wants to see a foreign operator coming here. Which is never going to happen. For the simple reason that foreign operators have bigger fish to fry elsewhere.

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