62% of New Zealanders have noticed pricing errors at the supermarket over the last year
Supermarket pricing errors are widespread and yet another blow to people’s budgets. We need clear rules, stronger penalties and automatic compensation for shoppers when supermarkets get it wrong. It’s time to force supermarkets to get their pricing right.
Tell the government to introduce a mandatory supermarket pricing accuracy code:
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***with clear pricing rules
***requiring supermarkets to automatically compensate consumers when pricing errors occur. For example, by requiring products be provided free of charge if the shelf price is cheaper than the scanned price, there is a special that doesn’t offer a genuine saving, or incorrect unit pricing.
***requiring your rights to be clearly disclosed both instore and online
***with infringement notice powers and much higher penalties (similar to those in Australia) for misleading pricing and promotions.
Time for action
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Recent Consumer NZ research found that 62% of New Zealanders noticed a pricing inaccuracy at the supermarket in the last year. And thanks to hundreds of examples you shared with us, in 2023 we laid a formal complaint with the Commerce Commission about Woolworths and Foodstuffs over misleading pricing and promotional practices. That complaint led to criminal charges being filed against Woolworths NZ and two Pak’nSave stores.
But the problem is these pricing issues haven’t stopped. And they won’t, unless the supermarkets face serious consequences.
We know that all the problems in the supermarket sector won’t be fixed overnight, but new rules will help stop dodgy pricing and promotional tactics, put money back in your pockets and send a strong signal to supermarkets to sort it out.
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Even Australians get it - so why not Kiwis???
“Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages.
On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage contributed more than 50% of supplied electricity for the first time, while wholesale power prices were more than 40% lower than a year earlier.
[…] shifting demand from gas and coal for power and petrol for cars is likely to deliver significantly lower energy bills for households.
Last quarter, wind generation was up almost 30%, grid solar 15% and grid-scale batteries almost tripled their output. Gas generation fell 27% to its lowest level for a quarter century, while coal fell 4.6% to its lowest quarterly level ever.
Gas has long been the most expensive way to produce power. Gas peaking plants tend to fire up only when supply struggles to meet demand and power prices soar. Less demand for gas has flowed through to lower wholesale prices.”
Full article: www.theguardian.com...
If even Australians see the benefit of solar - then why is NZ actively boycotting solar uptake? The increased line rental for electricity was done to make solar less competitive and prevent cost per kWh to rise even more than it did - and electricity costs are expected to rise even more. Especially as National favours gas - which is the most expensive form of generating electricity. Which in turn will accelerate Climate Change, as if New Zealand didn’t have enough problems with droughts, floods, slips, etc. already.
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