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alojapan.com/1256001/japanese- Japanese supermarket sales up for fifth straight year in fiscal 2024 ##supermarkets #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news Supermarket sales in Japan in fiscal 2024 rose 1.4% from the previous year on a same-store basis, up for the fifth consecutive year, the Japan Chain Stores Association said Thursday. Sales at all stores totaled ¥12,764.3 billion. Sales in value terms grew on higher prices including for food, especially rice and v…

As the supermarkets gear up for a 'price war' don't be thinking this is about their major competitors.... no a price war between the biggest supermarkets is, of course, intended to mask where they're upping prices but also as a way of further kicking the independent sector by dropping the prices of staple foods & other household regular purchases.

The oligopolists want to further cohere their domination ahead of a likely disruption caused by the Trump tariff shock.

Continued thread

"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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Has everyone noticed?
Here in #Germany almost all #supermarkets use #epaper displays to show prices. They look great. It's hard to notice that it's not ink on dead trees.
That's thousands of displays per shop. Times thousands of shops in the entire country.

Some of those displays break or otherwise get replaced.

So there must be piles of used displays around the country... but where?
Does any of my fellow #hackers know how to get some of that #trash treasure?