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Interestingly, some other products are also cheaper today than few months ago: Basmati rice: -25% (2.5 Euro/Kg) Pork: -25% (7-8 Euro/Kg) Butter: -33% (4 Euro/Kg) Coffee beans: -25% (10-12 Euro/Kg) Chocolate: -15% (20-30 Euro/Kg)
And then I went to the supermarket today and they wanted like €1.50 for a cucumber. A cucumber! That is essentially crispy water.
Surprisingly (for people who never lived in USSR/Russia :) Belarus and Russia have very tight supply of potatoes (after outright shortages in 2025) with Russia importing Chinese potatoes.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618544
Thanks! Macroexpanded: 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618544 - Jan 2026 (141 comments)
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They’ve been driving people to use their app for years now. The menu prices isn’t what one pays if they use the app, since it has a constant stream of coupons and discounts that bring the list price down.
Pretty much a standard 20% off, sometimes 25% as a deal depending on amount spent. BOGO value menu McDouble / McChickens. Points that add up to actually free food. Items not on the menu in store. It's robbery if you don't use their app now.
If everyone else refused to sell their data, we wouldn’t be in this position.
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Pretty much a standard 20% off, sometimes 25% as a deal depending on amount spent. BOGO value menu McDouble / McChickens. Points that add up to actually free food. Items not on the menu in store. It's robbery if you don't use their app now.
I’m not convinced it’s that good because of how the deals are structured. For example, top deal where I am at the moment is 9 chicken nuggets plus two medium drinks plus two sauces for 1990 HUF. That’s a two person deal (you don’t need two drinks if you’re on your own), but there are no chips, add a large chips to share at 1270 HUF and your meal costs 3260 HUF. Two four nugget McMoment deals comes to 3060 HUF (small…
If I do eat McDonalds its usually just a burger + fry + drink usually around ~$6ish unless I'm ordering for others.
It's good they didn't flood the market and tank the price. It's real btw. I got a whole wagens worth and distributed amongst my neighbors
Weird abundance problems. Should we get used to it?
- expand fresh water reservoir, flood control, reclamation, and RO water generation capacity
- increase diversity of crop cultivars because monoculture is a liability, e.g., Gros Michel banana
- increase geographic distribution of farming
- improve long-term food preservation technology
- increase strategic food storage capacity rather than relying entirely upon for-profit, just-in-time-delivery and inventory minimization cost-optimization
- cut net GHG emissions and gradually return to pre-industrial levels
It's good they didn't flood the market and tank the price. It's real btw. I got a whole wagens worth and distributed amongst my neighbors
Finally a match for "der dümmste Bauer hat die dicksten Kartoffeln". Giving stuff away for free is literally "flooding the market".
This is a massive missed opportunity for financialization. We need a 3x Leveraged Bull Potato ETF immediately. Tokenize the crop, lock it in a vault and trade futures against the harvest. Why feed people for free when we could create artificial scarcity and pump the price 10x by next week? McDonald’s fries pricing suggests the market has already priced in a massive supply squeeze. They are generating better margins o…
Crop futures are already a thing. Potatoes are traded on EEX for example: https://www.eex.com/en/markets/agriculturals/potatoes