Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart' (www.rnz.co.nz)

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The party's 'Affordable Kai' policy would also expand free school lunches and set up a publicly owned KiwiMart supermarket.

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[-] absGeekNZ 1 points 4 days ago

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.

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