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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by samstave »

codemac wrote: post #67
samstave wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What we really need is a digital copy of all our purchasing receipts via the following: 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…

I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices. Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to profit off of others lack of price knowledge.

agree... I originally wrote this in my comment but pulled it out as I figured the thought of a national DB some people might scoff at -- but I have wanted this for decades

>>"POS's would need to be able to report each receipt with a QR code to a central (ideally government) FDA site and that information should be API accessible for the public."

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by moronicQ »

davidkuennen wrote: post #13

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.

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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by HDThoreaun »

BurningFrog wrote: post #11
changoplatanero wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if those regions have some kind of regulations that limit supply

California has a new law about humane conditions for chickens that has closed many egg producers.

If you're talking about the ban on battery cages my understanding is that the major producers had already implemented that before the law was passed.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by mtoner23 »

rhacker wrote: post #57
ravenstine wrote: post #22

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…

I bet the government's inflation tracker is also connected to walmart links. No wonder the gov things we're at negative inflation.

lol, they have armies of statisticians working on this stuff. its probably better than this person's side project website scraper.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by PaulHoule »

asveikau wrote: post #51
BurningFrog wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

California has a new law about humane conditions for chickens that has closed many egg producers.

Are you sure? I'm reminded of the headlines a few years ago about how bacon would be harder to come by and more expensive in California due to new regulations. That didn't happen. When I looked into it, it seemed like meat producers were the sole source of the news articles, which reported it as indisputable fact.

What's interesting is that the red zone is literally a line following the south of the San Pablo and Suisun Bays. There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California. If it was really about statewide regulations you'd expect the whole state to be a red zone and it isn't. Instead I'd be looking for some bottleneck which affects that area, which I must admit I don't have a good mental picture of.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by samstave »

Tagbert wrote: post #40
davidkuennen wrote: post #13

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.

In the late 70s/early 80s - my grandmother (from seattle, prominent family) received a letter asking for an investment in a company for 10%.

She threw the letter away saying "nobody's ever going to drink that much coffee.

The letter was from Starbucks.

Sad investment face.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by bluedino »

pavon wrote: post #16
PaulHoule wrote: post #4

Looks like Washington, DC, St. Louis, and the area to the east of San Francisco are "red zones" for high egg prices for some reason.

Really interesting how different Walmarts nearby by in Kansas vary by 2x, from some of the lowest prices in the country to some of the highest.

The low prices likely are not real

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by mmaunder »

This data is wildly inaccurate. Spot checking actual prices in the Walmart app in my neighborhood shows 130% swings in price between locations with the cheaper location prices just plain wrong. The actual prices are roughly the same for a dozen Great Value eggs of varying sizes (large, jumbo, etc) and the cheaper prices on Eggspensive don’t exist. In fact they’re lower than the price for 6 eggs at all the stores I checked.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by NDizzle »

mtoner23 wrote: post #74
rhacker wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet the government's inflation tracker is also connected to walmart links. No wonder the gov things we're at negative inflation.

lol, they have armies of statisticians working on this stuff. its probably better than this person's side project website scraper.

I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
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