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I’m a long-time Green voter but I don’t like that this policy compels the selling of supermarkets. Private business should remain private business and I don’t think the current situation quite deserves a 90s-Microsoft level intervention.
I do like the idea of a nationalised supermarket. Kiwibank works well as an NZ alternative to the big Aussie banks. A state-owned supermarket with a mandate to keep margins to a certain level would be good, I think. Set up a few supermarkets in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Whangarei to start and see how it goes.
If you're a Green voter historically, you should be looking closely at Opportunity. They're basically the competent Green party anyway.
Kiwibank is so under capitalised; that it can only really compete in the basic services of consumer banking. Commercial banking is kinda out of reach of Kiwibank.
I would rather see the vertical integration broken up.