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> gov didn't like it I'm very curious about this part. Could you elaborate?

• muzani 6y ago
  We talked to someone in the consumer ministry to try and get prices for the app. Government has to balance both sides - the customers trying to get cheap products and the shopkeepers trying to make money. An app that compares prices of everything, will make it difficult for small businesses to compete. It wasn't exactly illegal, but it could be made illegal, and violated the spirit of the Anti-Profiteering Act, especially as the nature of something being an unfair advantage is being determined by ministry that we talked to. It was also somewhat illegal to display the prices of another place without the consent of that store. Stores didn't exactly like giving out their prices either, because it's meant to be a competitive advantage for some items to be loss leaders and some others are secretly expensive. Illegal or not, it would have benefited one side and screwed another, and in the long term this would likely not go well.