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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@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

Much cheaper; and probably easier.

I could see the govt buying 51% of the distribution, similar to the electricity market. But full nationalization is probably not a good idea.

I don't see why govt would want to be involved in the retail side at all though. Seems like a bad idea.