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.

  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    So essentially it was possible over there due to proper/favourable conditions, whereas here it would be much more difficult?

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      1 year ago

      the responsible minister claimed it’s an immense task and will take til autumn. It will  only include 16 product categories (think flour, milk,etc.). And it will only be updated once a week.

      I mean that’s pretty pathetic. Better than nothing, but “only updated once a week” sounds like “the intern who has to enter the prices works only for 20 hours”, not like they created an API and told the grocery chains to upload their prices.

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      Unknown. I don’t use the grocery chains’ websites (I’m of the “go to the nearest physical store and figure it out once there” persuasion), so I don’t know what the complexity level would be. It’s possible that they’re all older-school sites where you can lift the data straight from the HTML, which is relatively fast.