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Mario Zechner discovers anti-competitive illegal grocery pricing practices in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

Via siderea | The Austrian Grocery Price Comparison Website Story [tech, law, Austria]:

The following is magnificent, and I commend it to you.

Over on Mastodon, programmer Mario Zechner gives a first person account of how his exasperation with his government's (Austria) corruption and ineptitude led to him preempting a government web development boondoggle, and subsequently unearthing a whole world of anti-competitive illegal grocery pricing and precipitating federal antitrust action. A heartwarming story of screenscraping, data science, and international amity.

2023 Sept 15: Mario Zechner [personal profile] [email protected] : https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

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Österreicher erstellt Datenbank zum überwachen von Verbraucherpreisen Österreich (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

Ein sehr interessanter thread, in dem ein Entwickler ein paar Analysen beschreibt über die Preisentwicklung von Waren in österreichischen Lebemittelketten.

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Analysis of Austrian grocery by a programmer reveals deception through disingenuous discounts and possible collusion (mastodon.gamedev.place)
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The whole thread is a fun read. Some developer started collecting price historical data of goods on supermarker websites. Important context is that Austria has nutty inflation according to the thread author.

They see that different supermarkets change prices of given goods to the same level within at most a day of each other. This is probably because they are colluding.

Many goods are also on discount periodically and frequently. So if you buy this good weekly and there is a discount every other week, the real price you are paying for this good is an average of the non-discounted and discounted price. So supermarkets can ruse you by reducing the non-discounted price and increasing the discounted price making it look like they have reduced prices without not being any worse off.

There is also a bit about how Austrian products cost more in Austria than (say) in Germany.

Pretty insane. Always cool to see that in supermarket cultures there is zero consumer protection. I would say that basic necessities should come under planned economy but that would be communism.

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Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

HN Discussion

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Anyone tech savy enough to do something similar in Canada? (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

It would be nice to be able to bring to light the price gouging that is taking place in Canada with regards to grocery stores.

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Inflation und ob die Supermärkte davon ungewöhnlich viel profitieren (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

Interssanter Thread, kannte das Tool noch gar nicht. Find es immer noch arg wie wir im Vergleich mit Deutschland in dem Bereich da stehen und wir wenig getan wird.

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Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

HN Discussion

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Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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Austrian supermarkets engaged in shady price manipulation (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 
 

A whole bunch of this sounds really familiar for some reason...

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