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New Zealand food prices surge 3.5% in March 2025, highest in one year; dairy, meat, and chocolate costlier
New Zealand's annual food prices surged by 3.5% in March 2025, marking the highest increase since January 2024. Stats NZ ...
Evening Standard on MSN6d
Supermarket price war heats up in relief for consumers - as food inflation creeps up and household bills spiral
The escalating price war among UK supermarkets will come as some relief for consumers, who are seeing food inflation creep up ...
The Independent6d
Supermarket price war heats up in relief for squeezed consumers
In New Zealand, the Government is considering a possible break-up of a supermarket ‘duopoly’, with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon acknowledging that Kiwis “pay some of the highest prices ...
Indian Newslink9dOpinion
The government must end the overgrown and outlived MBIE
MBIE was supposed to be the government’s go-to department, but nearly everything it gets involved in ends up turning to dust ...
Opinion
Dunne's Weekly: While We're Breaking Up Monoliths, What About MBIE?
While the government is in the mood for breaking up failing conglomerates like the supermarket duopoly, it should consider doing the same to one of its own largest agencies – the ubiquitous Ministry ...