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"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

pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how

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pluralistic.netHow To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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

ABC News · Labor sets election promise to outlaw supermarket price gouging, after inquiry could not substantiate allegationsBy Maani Truu

"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/

CNACold Storage, Giant supermarket chains to be acquired by Malaysian retail companyThe sale to Macrovalue is expected to be completed in the second half of 2025.