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Download AudioThe chair of the North Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency wants to see regulation of food prices.
The Government is considering what it can do to address the lack of competition in the grocery sector after the Commerce Commission backed off its preliminary call for action to break the supermarket monopolies, including splitting their retail and wholesale arms.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait says the lack of action is felt by whānau every time they wheel a trolley up to the check-out.
“Families are going to get poorer and if they get poorer they get sicker. It’s going to come back on the government in some way, shape or form. We’ve come through two years of really hard times through Covid and now this. Food is one of the basics, so if you can’t get that right, if the Government can’t help, what the hell is it doing,” she says.
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