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europesays.com/uk/3588/ Supermarket own-brand butter officially crowned better than Lurpak — and it’s 60% cheaper #Aldi #Asda #Business #Food #Foodie #lidl #Lifestyle #Marks&Spencer #Morrisons #Supermarkets #Tesco #UK #UnitedKingdom #Waitrose

Strypey

"Mario Zechner is an Austrian technologist who used the APIs of large grocery chains to prove that they were colluding to rig prices. Zechner was able to create a corpus of historical price and product data to show how grocers used a raft of deceptive practices to trick people into thinking they were getting a good deal, from shrinkflation to cyclic price changes that were deceptively billed as 'discounts'."

@pluralistic, 2023

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#supermarkets #DeceptiveMarketing

How To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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ABC Feeds

Labor commits to outlaw supermarket price gouging if re-elected
By Maani Truu

The government vows to set up a taskforce to investigate how to best make it illegal for supermarkets to price-gouge customers, despite the ACCC's inquiry failing to confirm price gouging was happening.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/lab

#Supermarkets #AustralianFederalElections #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #Elections #MaaniTruu

Labor sets election promise to outlaw supermarket price gouging, after inquiry could not substantiate allegations

The government vows to set up a taskforce to investigate…

ABC News
Em-squared

Resigned semi political social comment re the high street, debt & vulture capitalists

I see that the vulture capitalists are asset stripping Morrisons supermarket now. The race to the bottom is gathering pace. #UK #Supermarkets

Soh Kam Yung

"Cold Storage Singapore, the country’s oldest supermarket chain, will be bought over by Malaysian retail group Macrovalue in a deal that is worth S$125 million (US$93 million).

The acquisition includes 48 Cold Storage stores under its CS Fresh, CS Gold, Cold Storage and Jasons Deli brands, as well as 41 Giant stores and two distribution centres in Singapore."

channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

#Malaysia #Singapore #Supermarkets #Retailers #ColdStorage

Cold Storage, Giant supermarket chains in Singapore to be acquired by Malaysian company in S$125m deal

The sale to Macrovalue is expected to be completed…

CNA
Euractiv

#France debates #supermarkets to keep minimum 10% margin on foods: A new law on French farmers' incomes, dubbed EGALIM 4, is due to be presented in the spring. euractiv.com/section/agricultu

dorotaC

Has everyone noticed?
Here in #Germany almost all #supermarkets use #epaper displays to show prices. They look great. It's hard to notice that it's not ink on dead trees.
That's thousands of displays per shop. Times thousands of shops in the entire country.

Some of those displays break or otherwise get replaced.

So there must be piles of used displays around the country... but where?
Does any of my fellow #hackers know how to get some of that #trash treasure?

#recycling #upcycling

Want Ch🔁nge? W🔁rk T🔁gether☑

Food & Euro Boycott

Nutella 1 kg jar Price example:
➡️ Croatia = 9.49 euros
➡️ Germany = ~3 euros (a third lower in Germany)

Food & Euro Boycott in Croatia & Balkans

With #HaloInspector Croatian consumer initiative....

Protests Spread Across the Balkans - February 15, 2025

A boycott of major retail chains in Croatia has led to an estimated loss of 80 million euros, according to protesters.

The boycott, which originated in Croatia, has gained significant momentum in other countries within the Western #Balkans, including #Bulgaria and #Romania. Populist leaders have also embraced the issue, using it to rally support for their causes.

The movement began after a call from the Croatian consumer initiative “Halo Inspector” on January 24, urging people to stop #shopping at large #supermarkets to protest against rising food prices. The appeal quickly gained traction through #social #media, with many #Croatian citizens joining the #protest. The prices of everyday items in Croatia have soared, with food inflation reaching 5.4% in January alone, a significant increase from 4.5% in December. This has led to widespread frustration, as #inflation rates have been on the rise for months.

One of the main reasons behind the protest is the stark price difference between Croatia and other #European countries. For instance, the price of a 1 kg jar of Nutella in Croatia is 9.49 euros, compared to a third lower in Germany. Similarly, a packet of butter in Croatia costs 2.80 euros, while in Germany, with higher wages and a more prosperous economy, the price drops to 2.25 euros during sales. Croatians have pointed out that prices are significantly cheaper abroad, with a recent study confirming that food spending in Croatia is disproportionately high when compared to the rest of Europe.

The call for a boycott has spread beyond# Croatia. In #Bulgaria, a political party in power has proposed a bill to limit the prices of #basic food items, citing concerns over foreign companies profiting off citizens while sending revenue abroad.

#Romania has also seen calls for a boycott, with the populist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu urging citizens to reject foreign suppliers. This movement has led to some results, such as #Carrefour reducing prices on 1,500 products by up to 25%.

#Serbia, #BosniaHerzegovina, #NorthMacedonia, and #Montenegro (#Balkans) have also heard calls for boycotts, with Prime Minister Milojko Spajic of Montenegro expressing personal support for the protests.

europesays.com/1849061/

Mark H

It's almost the perfect material for #Mastodon. Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers?

youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCv

From a new series of short videos answering small questions by Chris Spargo.

#Supermarket #YouTube #Video #UK #Supermarkets #Architecture #History

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