• Joe Cool
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    6 months ago

    You just need someone to do it. Here in Austria someone did it: https://heisse-preise.io

    It’s only in German and most of the prices aren’t from a public API but crawled from different sources.
    It’s open source. Nothing except greed is stopping them from providing something like this.

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      6 months ago

      Imagine if instead of building their own bespoke systems, grocery stores (and other places) created an open source software foundation and worked together to produce the software they needed.

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        6 months ago

        I sometimes dream of such things. Less waste, better inventory, customers get to choose inventory based on their wishlist, better prices, then I wake up.

        We actually have a small liquor store nearby that really puts stuff on the shelves if you casually mention something you like. But that’s more the exception than the rule.