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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/best_of_mastodon

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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

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

submitted 1 year ago by spacecowboy to c/[email protected]

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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.

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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