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Food prices

New Zealand is a producer of far more food than we can consume and therefore export our surplus, so why is it we pay far more for our own produce than consumers halfway round the world?

I feel we are being rorted by the big retailers, $6 for butter, $10 or more for cheese, and vegetables currently for in-season broccoli and leeks, $3 plus per item. Why!? How can this be justified? How can folk on minimum wage or a pension afford to eat healthy food. Only junk food is cheap.

Tony Stevens, Mt Pleasant (abridged)

Opinion

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2021-07-24T07:00:00.0000000Z

2021-07-24T07:00:00.0000000Z

https://fairfaxmedia.pressreader.com/article/283128546882086

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