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Shipping costs are price fixing now? We're talking about the brain dead price fixing theory. Stay on topic. I'm not the one underestimating shipping costs. The theorists are.
A retailer can ship way cheaper from Germany to Austria than an online retailer using postal service. The price difference is not shipping costs for retailers, but postal shipping costs make cross border shopping often uneconomic for customers.
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Also important to note: Germany is a car country: most ways to work, gym, etc in the average German city are done by car. Makes it easy to drive the extra mile to the cheapest supermarket. Austria is much better for using public transport or the bike. In this case you won't make the extra way to stop at the cheapest grocery. And in the areas in Austria where people use cars population density is so low that not a lot…
Looked this up in 30 seconds rather than relying on the ever-common HN anecdote with a certain narrative: Germany has 627 per 1000 capita. Austria has 572 per 1000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_... And here's distance traveled by car in each country, again, basically identical: https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-secto...