Why are some entries grouped together, like “spaghetti or butternut squash”?
It's just how Aldi has advertised the product in their flyer
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#42I feel like there’s a few countries missing :) Intersting to see how the prices relate just in the US though.
Oops, yes it covers US only. Could not find easily available data for European countries :)
Aldi products in Europe vary by country, so harder to compare. I'm also not sure if the prices vary within countries.
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#43Initially, I was like wow someone has too much time on their hands, but now I'm totally fascinated by this and can't stop studying it. This is awesome! Thanks!
I can’t believe a Big Mac has a different cost at individual stores. I’m not in the US.. I don’t think it’s like that here in Australia but someone will probably prove me wrong :D
Formally, McDonald's actually has relatively little control over the franchisees.
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Probably because avocados are less popular in the Mid-North, so they sell them for less.
It'd be interesting to evaluate this because unlike iPhone, fruit can trivially be substituted. In other words: the margins on them are what capitalism predicts: essentially nothing. This even goes for the aldi store as a whole. It does not apply to specialist medicine, and only to a very limited extent to Apple products. So Apple can "enshittify": extract the maximum the market is willing to bear. They can steer dem…
It is also interesting how some products are just marked up for NYC only https://www.aldipricemap.com/earthly_grains_instant_jasmine_...
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#45Pet 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
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#46Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...
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#48I feel like there’s a few countries missing :) Intersting to see how the prices relate just in the US though.
Oops, yes it covers US only. Could not find easily available data for European countries :)
Denmark sadly just got a whole lot easier to add. Aldi gave up and closed their last stores before Christmas. Apparently losing 1 billion DKK every year is just bad business.
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It is from their weekly flyer page
And then what do you do to get the data onto the map?
Plotted using Leaflet. A python script creates separate HTML file for every product that has a price differential across stores (many products do not have any price difference across the country). Hosted as a static site.
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Companies often have press guides or branding guides that clarify this. For Macca, an old guide covers this (Trademark Usage / Page 3). https://issuu.com/lukaszkulakowski/docs/002725
IIUC, that seems to be saying "don't write sentences in this structure" rather than "here's how it would look if you did write it". (Though it would seem strange for a manual to dictate the grammar for its own name.)
Following the example of Big Mac sandwiches (not Big Macs) I believe you'd write McDonald's restaurants' (not McDonald's'). I.E. always keep the trademarked word as-is, add sandwich or other nouns where needed to make the grammar work.
I think the confusion in this thread and elsewhere makes it clear why companies release brand guides.