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 Vincent Heeringa | May 18, 2023 | Opinion
Food prices seem high right now. And they are. But take a step back to look at the bigger picture and you’ll witness one of those chin-scratching miracles of industrialisation: the price of food has been falling steadily as a share of income since your grandad was...
by Editor | Nov 10, 2022 | News
Foodstuffs North Island, the co-operative behind PAK’nSAVE, New World and Four Square, has announced plans to partner with community organisations to open social supermarkets right across the motu to help tackle food insecurity in New Zealand communities. The...
by Editor | Sep 15, 2022 | News
Food prices were 8.3.% higher in August 2022 compared with August 2021, Stats NZ has announced this week, with food prices rising at their fastest annual rate in 13 years. Fruit and veggies were the largest driver of rising food prices, at 15%, the statistics show. In...
by Editor | Jun 23, 2022 | News
Foodstuffs has announced that retailers wanting to buy wholesale groceries to on-sell in their stores can now express interest to become a wholesale customer of Foodstuffs. This is a first move to open a wholesale grocery operation to competitors, to supply a range of...
