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Speaker 1: It's a very very big call on the supermarkets today.

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Speaker 1: The Grocery Commissioner has accused them of ripping us off. Now,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people will probably agree with that and

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Speaker 1: will think, yeah, well, what of it. He's right, But

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Speaker 1: there is a difference between you or I feeling ripped

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Speaker 1: off when we're standing in front of the olive oil

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Speaker 1: and looking at a price of thirty bucks. You feeling

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Speaker 1: ripped off and turning to the person next to you

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Speaker 1: and saying I'm getting ripped off, as a completely different

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Speaker 1: scenario from someone like the grocery Commissioner saying we're getting

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Speaker 1: ripped off and saying it on the radio. It's a

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Speaker 1: very very big call for someone like him to do that.

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Speaker 1: He's got to have proof, and he reckons he does.

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Speaker 1: It's been two years since the last government started cracking

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Speaker 1: down on supermarkets, but instead of things getting better in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, they're actually getting worse. The

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Speaker 1: margins that supermarkets are making of us are going up.

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Speaker 1: They're not paying their supply as a hell of a

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Speaker 1: lot more, but they are certainly charging you and I

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more that was not supposed

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Speaker 1: to happen. That is the opposite of what we're supposed

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Speaker 1: to happen. Just to say the crackdown didn't work, now,

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Speaker 1: that's not a surprise to anyone with half a brain

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Speaker 1: who was watching what the last government did, because the

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Speaker 1: minister was David Clark, Yes, David who loves a mountain

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Speaker 1: biker Clark. It was him, And what he did to

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Speaker 1: fix the grocery system was he set up a grocery commissioner.

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Speaker 1: He brought in a mandatory code of conduct, He put

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Speaker 1: compulsory unit pricing on groceries, and he forced more transparent

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Speaker 1: loyalty schemes. I mean, hoo, thought that was going to

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Speaker 1: make a difference. Didn't make a rocket scientist to tell

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Speaker 1: you that ain't going to change nothing. In fact, on

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Speaker 1: this very show we said it ain't going to change nothing,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to work, and look, wow, here we

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Speaker 1: are it didn't work. Now. Actually, I'm not pessimistic about

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Speaker 1: the situation right because it was clear that this I'd

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Speaker 1: baked this in. What I'm thinking though, of all the

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Speaker 1: things that David the bike rider might have done, did

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Speaker 1: or rather did that might make a difference, he did

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Speaker 1: set up the grocery commissioner, and there's nothing like personal

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Speaker 1: ambition and reputation to motivate someone, And I get the

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Speaker 1: feeling that Pia van Hiden might realize that he actually

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Speaker 1: does need to get this right and sort this out

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Speaker 1: for his own sake, for his own reputation as the

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Speaker 1: first guy to hold the job. So I suspect that

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Speaker 1: whatever comes next, whatever he wants to do in order

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Speaker 1: to fix the situation, may in fact be more promising.

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Speaker 1: And I am taking heart from the strong language that

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Speaker 1: he's used today saying we are being ripped off, but

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Speaker 1: as always, time will tell. For more from Heather Duplessy

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