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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.
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Show HN: Aldi Price Map
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt. Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).
On the contrary, a successful business will eat some costs in order to generate more profit. That's the definition of a loss leader. When Publix sells a rotisserie chicken for $8, they're taking a loss on every one. If people only came to Publix for the chicken, they'd go bankrupt in a month. Hence they aren't passing on the cost. They hope people will buy other items too, which have higher margins, and make up the d…
In the context of the comment I replied to, I meant all businesses pass on all costs in aggregate.
But the commenter I replied to then clarified they meant the business does not evenly spread the transportation costs equally amongst all customers nationwide.
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#243As someone from the Netherlands, I was surprised how expensive the local supermarkets in the US are (and also that they don't include taxes in the price labels). I still remember that over 10 years ago, one banana and one granola bar cost me over 10 dollar (nowadays it's probably a lot more). I almost cancelled the purchase at the checkout, but I didn't want to look like a cheapskate. The nearest K-mart would be 1.5…
That sounds insane. Are you sure you weren't being ripped off? Or this was a convenience store at a very lucrative location (i.e. tourist trap)?
> Or this was a convenience store at a very lucrative location (i.e. tourist trap)?
Seriously. What's interesting is that in the big cities (NYC, LA, Chicago) if you go to the neighborhoods where people actually live, grocery prices for fresh items are usually lower than in suburban or rural parts of the US. High sales volume overcomes the high real estate and labor costs.
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#244For those disappointed about limitations of the data, I assume it's because aldi.us has a minimal web presence that comes down to pretty much only weekly fliers when it comes to food pricing data (locally at least). When I was in college (within the last 10 years), Aldi was a god send. We could get a load of whole wheat bread for 70 cents. A one pound bag of pretzels was like a dollar. A dozen bagels was $1.25. A pou…
Aldi does pickup through Instacart, and while I know the prices wouldn't be 1:1 - it might be a great source of data for price deltas
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#245So...Will get my Navel Oranges in Whichita, will do a quick jump to Mount Pleasant for Kiwis and get me the Spaghetti in Farfield...A Python script retrieving current Airline rates and implementing Minimum Spanning Tree should help optimize next week's shopping...
You could do this for YouTube views. "How I fed my family of twelve for ten dollars a week*", popping by various cities to get the best prices on unprocessed food ingredients, to serve them up some gruel, totally ignoring the travel costs.
Flying a thousand miles to pick up a pack of dried lentils, then another thousand miles to get a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes and then some more miles to pick up a bag of flour - that would have made great content a few years ago. This would be legitimate because the revenue from the 'content' would have paid for the flying.
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#246I'm curious why you're using a commercial tile provider -- CARTO -- instead of OpenStreetMaps?
Pretty sure I am not paying anything or using any API key :) Open Street Map basemap was too colorful and contrast with my color scheme was not very good in many parts of the map
Hey ayocado, I have some experience with self-managed/self-hosted base maps. There are some modern tools that make the setup pretty easy (e.g. Protomaps, MapLibre) and you can still use a minimalist style similar to the CARTO one you have now.
If you're interested in switching over, feel free to shoot me an email and I can try to help!
Here are some demos [1][2] I've made without using any third-party map services. All open source! [3]
[1] https://wcedmisten.fyi/project/north-america-hospital-distan...
[2] https://wcedmisten.github.io/nextjs-protomap-demo/isochrone
Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt. Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).
On the contrary, a successful business will eat some costs in order to generate more profit. That's the definition of a loss leader. When Publix sells a rotisserie chicken for $8, they're taking a loss on every one. If people only came to Publix for the chicken, they'd go bankrupt in a month. Hence they aren't passing on the cost. They hope people will buy other items too, which have higher margins, and make up the d…
When Publix lets me see inside the market because they have the lights on, lets me not shiver because they have the heat on, or lets me use a shopping basket without charging for it, they're also "eat[ing] some costs in order to generate more profit".
Surely GP's text should be ever-so-slightly charitably read to mean overall/aggregated costs, not that each and every individual cost is passed on.
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#248Pet 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
LEGOs makes sense; a LEGO is an indivisible entity, of which you can have a certain number. Calling the material simply LEGO makes it sound like an undifferentiated mass, like sludge, or cheese.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always found the cashback rewards to cover the membership cost, YMMV though. I also live for the hot dogs
They don't have a cashback program here.
Ah I didn't realize cashback was US and Canada only. Purchasing over $6000/year will cover the fee, which isn't cheap if you don't do much shopping there. The rewards site has a table with reward estimates: https://www.costco.com/executive-rewards.html
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#250How naive of me to ecpect anything else than an us-only map when this is about a german supermarket chain with most of its stores in europe...
message the author and create the european map? create the map you want to see in the world