Supermarkets have become an election battleground – The Front Page

Chelsea DanielsThe Front Page podcast host·NZ Herald·16 Sep, 2026 05:00 AM3 mins to read‌NZ Herald senior correspondent Katie Bradford joins The Front Page to unpack the new supermarket policies and what they tell us about how the election campaign is taking shape.For years we’ve been told that New Zealand’s supermarket sector isn’t competitive enough.With grocery prices top of mind for many voters, political parties are putting forward plans to try to change that. National wants to give the Commerce Commission a new mandate to look at separating Foodstuffs into “two