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Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by getwiththeprog on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:52AM (#39379844)
Probably because avocados are less popular in the Mid-North, so they sell them for less.
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by candiodari on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:11AM (#39379930)
It'd be interesting to evaluate this because unlike iPhone, fruit can trivially be substituted. In other words: the margins on them are what capitalism predicts: essentially nothing. This even goes for the aldi store as a whole.

It does not apply to specialist medicine, and only to a very limited extent to Apple products. So Apple can "enshittify": extract the maximum the market is willing to bear. They can steer demand. Aldi cannot.

Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map by ayocado on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:30AM (#39380036)
It is also interesting how some products are just marked up for NYC only https://www.aldipricemap.com/earthly_grains_instant_jasmine_...