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This is great. As a European, I would have thought the Southern USA would be the poorest states, so the cheapest. But it looks like the Midwest actually has the cheapest eggs?
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Naive as I am (& not living in the US), I've always thought these supermarket chains have uniform pricing and that's one reason why they're so popular.
Anything produce related is going to fluctuate based on location. This is because most produce is bought within some distance of the store (ex: 100 miles).
Living in Canada, this is rarely the case (probably because it's too cold here to grow... most things.) Here in Vancouver, our strawberries comes up the coast from California; our lettuce tends to come all the way from Mexico; etc.
This is great. As a European, I would have thought the Southern USA would be the poorest states, so the cheapest. But it looks like the Midwest actually has the cheapest eggs?
The variability here inside of single cities (look at Norfolk, VA for example - and remember this is just Walmart, not Walmart vs high-end grocery etc) is really highlighting to me that we need something to upset grocery delivery to either a) make it easier to order specific items from different locations with the best price or b) induce more perfect price competition between neighboring grocery retailers
Alternately: some neighborhoods are less price sensitive and there’s not really a problem. The positive flip side is that the “low” prices in a given region are probably lower than they would be if the stores had more efficient competition, and that’s to the benefit of people who are price sensitive.
Finding out that a different grocery story has them for a little less money would not change my shopping habits.
I'm from Germany and in New York right now. Damn is everything expensive here. And everyone running around with a 10+$ Starbucks coffee all the time. Edit: probably not a fair comparison though since I come from the countryside in Germany where everything's generally cheaper than in the cities.
A Starbucks coffee is not $10. A large, handmade dessert like a Frappuccino is $10. A basic cup of coffee is about $3. Sorry to jump on you but people frequently post complaints about Starbucks coffee being super expensive but then using the price of the most expensive item on their menu that is not a normal coffee.
I think there's something a bit misleading about these prices. This is reporting prices of $2.76 per dozen at a Wallmart near me. I happened to visit that store yesterday and I know damn well there were no eggs being sold at even remotely close to that low price. The Eggspensive site seems to be picking up on this dozen eggs, which happens to be not available at this or any other store in the region. They also are no…
An app which scans a QR code printed on receipts which leads to a direct json/table of the items purchased, location purchased, date, price paid.
NO PERSONAL DATA - just the item, store name & location, price, date, tax %.
People can CHOOSE to scan their receipt and have that data slurped into the app and uploaded to a national DB for price index.
sans QR system integrated to the sales we just need an OCR capable AI APP that you take a pic of the receipt and it parses it and tracks the prices.
An additional feature is just snapping pics of price tags into the app and it parses them, their barcodes, prices, location, etc...
Same as the Gas Price app-ish, but for any receipt as the header of every receipt has all the business information and a line item of price for purchases.
It would be great if we could require all sales to provide a QR code of every receipt which provides a json/table of the above (anon) data...
because I keep a running tally in my head for things that I buy and their prices.
At the beginning of the pandemic, juice from MINUTE MAID in half gallon was $1.34 -- currently it is $1.68 11.25% inflation increase for this sugar water alone.
This is great. As a European, I would have thought the Southern USA would be the poorest states, so the cheapest. But it looks like the Midwest actually has the cheapest eggs?
I'm from Germany and in New York right now. Damn is everything expensive here. And everyone running around with a 10+$ Starbucks coffee all the time. Edit: probably not a fair comparison though since I come from the countryside in Germany where everything's generally cheaper than in the cities.
May you please give some price comparisons for fairly similar items youll find in germany vs us (grocery or otherwise) - lets not talk about healthcare and bribing politicians :-) - Since I am "posting too fast (thanks @Dang), Ill post my replies in this edit: @StuporGlue ; >> "Yeah, almost all of those prices are lower than in the US.... I think a gallon of milk is about $4.99 or $5.99 (usually ~$1+ higher if we are…
I'm from Germany and in New York right now. Damn is everything expensive here. And everyone running around with a 10+$ Starbucks coffee all the time. Edit: probably not a fair comparison though since I come from the countryside in Germany where everything's generally cheaper than in the cities.
May you please give some price comparisons for fairly similar items youll find in germany vs us (grocery or otherwise) - lets not talk about healthcare and bribing politicians :-) - Since I am "posting too fast (thanks @Dang), Ill post my replies in this edit: @StuporGlue ; >> "Yeah, almost all of those prices are lower than in the US.... I think a gallon of milk is about $4.99 or $5.99 (usually ~$1+ higher if we are…
That said, Rent alone is significantly different, where the rent alone in NY can be the entire monthly salary for someone in EU. (Basing myself on data from Toronto, but I gather that NY is more expensive to rent).
