@pluralistic This is utterly delightful—Austrian techie builds open-source grocery chain price-tracking database, discovers industrywide price-controlling collusion:
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275
Mario Zechner (@[email protected])

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

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@SidFudd @pluralistic Oh man, we really need this supermarket price analysis here in Australia! 📈
#Coles #Woolworths #Duopoly #AusPol #inflation #Shrinkflation #recordProfits #australia #supermarket
@mori @SidFudd @pluralistic I realised I have basically been collecting this kind of data via scraping Dan Murphy's every 12 hours since the start of this year for one of my side projects