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Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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you Americans need to think about your "LEGOs" problem

You really don’t want to go down this road. I have no problem starting a movement to get Americans to call them “LEGO’s” and you won’t be able to even suggest it’s wrong because it’ll just be a contraction of “LEGO parts,” “LEGO bricks,” and “LEGO sets.” (But feel free to lambast us over punctuation and quotation marks.)

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Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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The way I’m interpreting the charts, the least expensive (green dot) clusters are indicative of which port received a given item. The stores furthest from the port also have the highest cost.

So they’re passing on transport costs?

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Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#73
I love maps like these, the McDonald's (1) or Taco Bell one (2).

That said, these don't seem to cover things most people really buy - meat particularly, and fresh veggies. Or paper products. Have you considered adding more items?

1 - https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest

2 - https://taconomical.com/

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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The way I’m interpreting the charts, the least expensive (green dot) clusters are indicative of which port received a given item. The stores furthest from the port also have the highest cost.

So they’re passing on transport costs?

All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt.

Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...

you Americans need to think about your "LEGOs" problem

How long do you thing that they will turn the already-plural "data" into the hyper-plural "datas"? Or has this already happened, I am too afraid to check.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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I love maps like these, the McDonald's (1) or Taco Bell one (2). That said, these don't seem to cover things most people really buy - meat particularly, and fresh veggies. Or paper products. Have you considered adding more items? 1 - https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest 2 - https://taconomical.com/

It is not easy to get this kind of data as most of these companies do not provide any public APIs. I will continue exploring adding more products.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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There's also Aldi in Australia and China Also I'm not quite sure about the grammar of "Aldi's"

I will check if I can find data for Australia or China. Fixed the grammar :)

Where did you find the data source for the USA?

It'd be amazing to see this data mapped across time, as it'd be a relatively good indicator of grocery inflation.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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I'm curious why you're using a commercial tile provider -- CARTO -- instead of OpenStreetMaps?

It's a common misconception that the OpenStreetMap project provides free map tile resources for use by others. The focus of the project is the map data.

https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

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