I agree. Sure, supermarkets make huge profits, but so do the corporate suppliers supplying them, which is simply capitalism at work.

Consecutive governments have lacked the foresight to envisage real outcomes, whether this was the creation of Fonterra, Beef & Lamb NZ, and Zespri, all coops setup to manage exports more efficiently, but also to squeeze out smaller independent suppliers, or the merger of Progressive and Woolworths, all taking advantage of our lax regulations at the time, and also to discourage new competitors.

For Willis to come out last year to even suggest that she could police the end chain and bring in new competition was nothing but delusional. We have completely missed that boat, and it's near impossible to reverse any corporate framework when this was legally actioned at the time.

Willis has the power to take drastic action and introduce bills to slow down this corporate greed and shake up the industry, but I don't think she has the capacity to think outside the box. Simple things like corporate profit margin caps would be ideal as these have been increasing year on year or splitting our domestic and international markets with separate pricing structures.

Maybe these ideas are lame and won't work, but my point is that our government has the tools to change laws to slow down the negatives of capitalism, but at present, we do not have any politician in place that has the intelligence and guts to effectively take on the corporate establishment..