by Editor | Oct 19, 2023 | News
Produce prices have fallen 3.9 percent in the latest Food Price Index (FPI) data released today. The FPI, which tracks changes in the cost of food from month to month, decreased by 0.4 from August 2023 to September 2023, with the decreasing price of fruit and...
by Tash McGill | Oct 13, 2023 | Opinion
I bought a 3kg bag of carrots at Costco at $4.99. That’s a lot of carrots considering I live alone. But the deal seemed good – but would it turn into 24 carrot gold? I knew I could save precious pennies over the next two to three weeks – just eat...
by David Wrigley | Jul 20, 2023 | Opinion
News comes to us this week of Countdown’s plan to spend $400,000,000 rebranding their supermarkets as Woolworths, a name most of them were trading under as long ago as 2009. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a rebrand for a company that has no meaningful...
by Editor | Jul 13, 2023 | News
Pierre van Heerden has been named New Zealand’s first Grocery Commissioner. In a statement released on Tuesday, Consumer NZ, a long time critic of the supermarket duopoly’s practices, has welcomed the appointment. “This is an important step in the lengthy...
by David Wrigley | Jun 15, 2023 | News
For the first time this year, the Food Price Index (FPI) shows a drop in the cost of fruit and vegetables as the country’s growers recover from a tough spell of weather-related challenges. United Fresh President, Jerry Prendergast, says the fall in prices for the...
