This New Zealand Life

NZ-UK: Basket of goods 25.3859 percent greater in NZ

Basket updated: Sunday, 21 August 2011

Rip off New Zealand looks forward to Rugby World cup

WITH only a month to go before fans pour into New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup, retailers are making sure they make as much profit as they can. Including from Kiwis themselves. Our basket this week shows prices 40% higher in NZ than in the UK.

Dairy prices milk NZ public

Basket updated: Friday, 4 February 2011

Perhaps one of you smart types out there can tell me why milk costs $2.45 in NZ and only $1.80 in the UK. This country, after all, is considered to be one of the world's great dairy producers. Is the public being milked.

NZ-UK: Basket of goods 21.1339 percent greater in NZ

Basket updated: Monday, 24 January 2011

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THE unbelievable cost of the Kiwi dollar pushes NZ basket of goods forty percent higher than the same basket in the UK.

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Is there room for another 20% on food prices?

UN: Consumers may have little choice but to pay higher prices for their food. The size of next year's harvest becomes increasingly critical. For stocks to be replenished and prices to return to more normal levels, large production expansions are needed in 2011.

THIS week the United Nations warned that food prices could rise another 20% worldwide due to poor harvests. Will the NZ consumer accept such a hike?

TNZL looks at how food prices have been making the headlines in the last week.

Disgraceful NZ grocery prices

UPDATE: With an extended basket of goods, TNZL begins tracking the cost of living difference between New Zealand and the UK.

Most shocking are the NZ goods that are cheaper for Britons than they are for Kiwis, like Oyster Bay wine and milk. But there seems to be a general 25-30% hike in prices for NZ.

This is particularly keenly felt by working families. Salaries are some 30-50% less in NZ and children add considerably to the weekly cost of living.