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[JanW]

He has been in business 30 years with a huge investment - politicians earn a million dollars in two years with absolutely no investment and don’t create jobs- imagine how much tax that supermarket owner has paid so we can have our parliamentarians being the 5th highest paid in the OECD - more than Boris Johnson Trudeau and Macron .There is often criticism of dairy prices Fonterra set the prices - my son makes 1c a litre on milk but the volume of sales gives him profits - our meat manufacturing plants - most of them are now owned by overseas owners - the largest was sold last year to a Chinese company set meat prices but the perception is the supermarkets are ripping the farmer off - again our high transportation costs and the increased power costs caused by the loss of rebates at the meat processors has seen a huge jump in costs - not sure where you are but looking at PaknSave online the average - cauliflower price is $5.39 - if there was room in the market for more competition that would result in food price reduction CC would have recommended it .Our biggest pet food manufacturer was also sold last year to Chinese owners so the product is going off shore starving the kiwi market
I will tell you what my son thinks - we need to get back to making stuff here - Tip Top have ground to a halt which will increase prices because they import every thing even ice block sticks and the fancy wrapping that ice blocks are wrapped in - one of the sauce companies have just about gone out of business that use glass bottles because the tops are held up somewhere .He is hoping that kiwi entrepreneurs seize the chance to get cracking - he has helped a young grain farmer set up a plant to manufacture oat milk so instead of importing Ozzie oat milk its kiwi made on his backdoor step - whoever would have thought we don’t even make iceblock sticks