On 2025-09-25 06:06:54 +0000, Lawrence D?Oliveiro said:

While NZ-made dairy products are enjoying high prices with high sales overseas, those same high prices are causing local customers to suffer.

But why should we have to buy NZ-made? Why can there not be the option for local buyers to choose cheaper, albeit lower-quality products, from our
own competitors? That would help save our own wallets, even as we continue
to benefit from the success of our own exports.

For some products you can. There are imported butters, for example.
Eventually it will cause the discontinuation of the NZ-made products
and/or the closure of the company making them (as seen recently with
Watties no longer using local peaches) ... but, if they've got
over-priced products or use over-priced providers, it's their own fault.
This whole "buy NZ made" (or "Australian made", "US made", "UK made",
etc. depending on where you live) is an idiotic idea, which along with
tariffs and trade agreements, simply makes a mockery of the so-called
"free trade" and "competitive marketplace" ... and as usual, it's all
due to greed and the customer is the one who ends up paying for it.


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On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:41:24 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2025-09-25 06:06:54 +0000, Lawrence D?Oliveiro said:

While NZ-made dairy products are enjoying high prices with high sales
overseas, those same high prices are causing local customers to suffer.

But why should we have to buy NZ-made? Why can there not be the option for >> local buyers to choose cheaper, albeit lower-quality products, from our
own competitors? That would help save our own wallets, even as we continue >> to benefit from the success of our own exports.

For some products you can. There are imported butters, for example.

Eventually it will cause the discontinuation of the NZ-made products
and/or the closure of the company making them (as seen recently with
Watties no longer using local peaches) ... but, if they've got
over-priced products or use over-priced providers, it's their own fault.

This whole "buy NZ made" (or "Australian made", "US made", "UK made",
etc. depending on where you live) is an idiotic idea, which along with >tariffs and trade agreements, simply makes a mockery of the so-called
"free trade" and "competitive marketplace" ... and as usual, it's all
due to greed and the customer is the one who ends up paying for it.

There is also imported meat - pork products (read the labels for country-of-origin) and recently in New World imported beef.

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