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..
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.
Pretty easy to get something basic set up if you get enough people to crowd-source data with photos of stuff in grocery stores and their receipts, along with some scraping to get data that’s available online. It’s a project that’s been on my backlog for a while, but I can bump it up if others want to join me in making this.
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Pretty easy to get something basic set up if you get enough people to crowd-source data with photos of stuff in grocery stores and their receipts, along with some scraping to get data that’s available online. It’s a project that’s been on my backlog for a while, but I can bump it up if others want to join me in making this.