Letters to the editor: We are being ripped off at the supermarket

A writer says New Zealanders are paying overly high prices for everyday items. Photo / NZME

Well, we have had the Budget for another year, and it is good some people are getting a little more in their pockets - or are they?

A quick shop at some grocery outlets shows otherwise.

The number of everyday items that have gone up since last week is staggering - not luxury items, everyday necessary foods, up by $1 or even $2.

Very little was reduced and even the ones that have been reduced are items not considered everyday foods.

Another venture into a store showed in order to get a discount, you have to buy two items of the same brand - and even sale items are up on a year ago.

I would venture that on a buy-weekly basis, the average family are roughly 5 per cent worse off than they were last year.

And this before the power bill comes in.

I have family in the US, Canada, UK and Australia so it is easy to compare prices. We are being well and truly ripped off when it comes to everyday prices of what I would consider essentials.

Jim Adams
Rotorua

Heart of the city dying

The city-centre area was the heart of the town when I was a boy.

It's a pity Kmart or NZ Post aren't in the centre with free time-limit parking.

It's like making the hub of a wheel a drawcard.

Something could still be built in the heart of the city for that very reason and landscaped accordingly, but what? Maybe someone could come up with an idea?

GV Shuter
Rotorua

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