Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
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Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
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#2This is a great thread, and it shows the power of smart, tech-capable citizens.
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#3“asymmetric information warfare”
I think that’s a great term in explaining how “the free market” doesn’t work.
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#5To check price of items in Austria, the website is here:
Browsing around, the prices look very reasonable and inexpensive to me.
For example, 500 g bag of peanuts is 4.59 euros, the price has fluctuated between 3.39 to 5.59 euros over the years.
Peanuts name is “Kelly's Erdnüsse geröstet & gesalzen”
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#6To check price of items in Austria, the website is here: https://heisse-preise.io/ Browsing around, the prices look very reasonable and inexpensive to me. For example, 500 g bag of peanuts is 4.59 euros, the price has fluctuated between 3.39 to 5.59 euros over the years. Peanuts name is “Kelly's Erdnüsse geröstet & gesalzen”
You have to keep prices in relation to salary and other CoL expenses. Europe in general has lower salaries than the US, this is true of Germany and especially Austria. For me 4.59 for erdnüssen is too high for my kart.
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#7Had a "oh shit" moment reading the article. I live in Germany, and of course buy groceries. The "discount" games seem very obvious now. Food expenses have risen very significantly recently.
Great article, I hope this gains more traction and or legal ramifications for the grocers.
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#8Funny how the two most pro-Russian EU countries, Hungary and Austria, are the ones suffering the worst inflation despite continuing to trade with Russia.
The only parts of the countries doing well are Budapest and Vienna that are both controlled by opposition parties.
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#9Had a "oh shit" moment reading the article. I live in Germany, and of course buy groceries. The "discount" games seem very obvious now. Food expenses have risen very significantly recently. Great article, I hope this gains more traction and or legal ramifications for the grocers.
One trick I noticed while doing data input for supermarkets (in a different market) is that price rises are always advertised as promotions.
Say a supermarket has a $1.10 item and they want to increase that product to $1.50. They'll up the price to $1.50 immediately, and add a "40c off" to the ticket. The consumer sees "promotion" and assumes it's a discount, when it's actually just the same price as usual.
Then ~2 weeks later(depends on average buying frequency) the promotion sticker comes off and the product is now at the higher price.
Every time you see a promotion ticket, you can cynically assume it's a price increase.
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#10Truly shows how Free Markets are the most efficient