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The Commerce Commission has released its first findings into the New Zealand grocery market, threatening to force Woolworths and Countdown to sell some of their stores to create a third retailer.
The commission’s inquiry began in November, and is expected to take a year to complete. On Thursday morning it released its draft report, saying the present “duopoly… is not working well for consumers”.
“If competition was more effective, retailers would face stronger pressures to deliver the right prices, quality and range to satisfy a diverse range of consumer preferences,” said commission chair Anna Rawlings.
商务委员会(Commerce Commission)公布了对新西兰杂货市场的首个调查结果，威胁要迫使沃尔沃斯(Woolworths)和倒数(Countdown)出售部分门店，以创建第三家零售商。
委员会的调查于去年11月开始，预计需要一年时间才能完成。周四上午，该公司发布了报告草稿，称目前的“双头垄断……对消费者不利”。
委员会主席安娜·罗林斯(Anna Rawlings)表示:“如果竞争更加有效，零售商将面临更大的压力，以提供合适的价格、质量和产品种类，以满足不同消费者的偏好。”
Over 90 percent of New Zealand’s grocery market is controlled by just two companies – Woolworths NZ (Countdown, Fresh Choice, SuperValue) and Foodstuffs (Pak’nSave, Four Square, New World).
Food prices rose 2.8 percent in the year ended June, according to Statistics NZ – the fastest in six months – while prices of fruits and vegetables are up 10 percent on a year ago.
“Our preliminary view is that the core problem is the structure of the market,” said Rawlings.
“In competitive terms, the major retailers, Woolworths NZ and Foodstuffs, are a duopoly, and while there is an increasingly diverse fringe of other grocery retailers, they have a limited impact on competition. This is because they are unable to compete with the major grocery retailers on price and product range in order to satisfy the widespread consumer demand for a main shop at a single store.”
新西兰超过90%的食品杂货市场被两家公司控制——Woolworths NZ (Countdown, Fresh Choice, SuperValue)和Foodstuffs (Pak’nSave, Four Square, New World)。
根据新西兰统计局的数据，截至今年6月，食品价格上涨了2.8%，这是六个月来的最快涨幅，而水果和蔬菜的价格较去年同期上涨了10%。
罗林斯表示:”我们初步认为，核心问题在于市场结构。”
“在竞争方面，主要零售商Woolworths NZ和Foodstuffs是双头垄断，虽然其他杂货零售商的边缘市场越来越多样化，但它们对竞争的影响有限。这是因为他们无法在价格和产品种类上与主要的杂货零售商竞争，以满足消费者对一家主要商店的广泛需求。”
从这段报道里面，超市垄断好像是那么回事，只不过商务委员会怎么样可以让这两家巨头出售部分门店，以创建第三家零售商？新西兰是自由经济，民主社会，总不能私人企业由政府说了算？
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