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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by piker on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:55AM (#37535892)
Consider the burden of tracking unit prices a tax itself that is being shifted to the buyer in this case. So even then… inflation.
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Re:French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pres... by resbaloso on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:37PM (#37536311)
Seriously. Here is a thread of a person tracking the changes of supermarket prices in Austria: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

Building a food price database is not something that one could easily do from the looks of it.

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