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Eric Crampton: Why it's hard to open a supermarket in NZ
Supermarkets' high profits should motivate a new competitor, if they're real. If the profits are there, what's stopping them?
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Eric Crampton: ERIC CRAMPTON: Better border practices our best line of defence
Even with the best of practices at the border, eventually something will get through. And something now has.