Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
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Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#2I'm sure there is a theory of how this would reduce prices - what is it? Real estate markets became infinitely more transparent over the last couple of years, to the extent that the data is used to train data scientist. The result? Speculators entered the market at it's messed up.
Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#3I'm sure there is a theory of how this would reduce prices - what is it? Real estate markets became infinitely more transparent over the last couple of years, to the extent that the data is used to train data scientist. The result? Speculators entered the market at it's messed up.
Good point.
But is there an oligopoly in the Canadian real estate market though?
I assume the premise of Project Hammer is that transparency applied on the food industry would underline some collusion and invite for a debate on whether there's some legislation to apply against such an oligopoly.
Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#4Not sure if the author is here, but the downloadable SQLite database significantly benefits from applying compression (~75% with gzip).
Also, is there a write-up of how they collected the prices? I have wanted to do a similar analysis for years, but immediately gave up realizing I would be spending 95% of my efforts scraping and entity matching. By and large manufacturers seem to go out of their way offer unique SKUs intentionally to avoid comparisons.
Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#5Oh man, we really need this for telecom too. And even more important than their collusion is their political corruption, so the government protects them from competition and funnels endless billions in taxpayer money to them.
Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
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Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#7I'm sure there is a theory of how this would reduce prices - what is it? Real estate markets became infinitely more transparent over the last couple of years, to the extent that the data is used to train data scientist. The result? Speculators entered the market at it's messed up.
Good point. But is there an oligopoly in the Canadian real estate market though? I assume the premise of Project Hammer is that transparency applied on the food industry would underline some collusion and invite for a debate on whether there's some legislation to apply against such an oligopoly.
Is the premise that the bread scandal is just the tip of the iceberg?
Re: Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
#8I'm sure there is a theory of how this would reduce prices - what is it? Real estate markets became infinitely more transparent over the last couple of years, to the extent that the data is used to train data scientist. The result? Speculators entered the market at it's messed up.
Good point. But is there an oligopoly in the Canadian real estate market though? I assume the premise of Project Hammer is that transparency applied on the food industry would underline some collusion and invite for a debate on whether there's some legislation to apply against such an oligopoly.
What would demonstrate collusion? Very similar prices could be a sign of close competition, and razor-thin margins. Varying prices could also be a sign of close competition, with grocers choosing loss-leaders to lure customers into the store.
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#10Why on earth are people and government stooges suddenly targeting grocery stores for collusion and price gouging? If there is an industry with a lower profit margin, I'm not aware of it.