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One of the things I have long wanted in the USA: An app/website/whatever-service which allows the scanning of a receipt/UPC code - which takes the scan data an
by samstave 4y ago
One of the things I have long wanted in the USA:
An app/website/whatever-service which allows the scanning of a receipt/UPC code - which takes the scan data and the price for ITEM.'
Then allows me to track ITEM $ over time, and between vendors / stores.
Ideally I also want to be able to track ORIGIN, thus if I am tracking the cost of an ITEM which has an ORIGIN of non-US-country, I can track over time the cost of a product that was made over-seas.
The reason this is of interest to me - is I like to see where the inlfation of costs is occurring.
As an example, there is a juice that I like to buy which was $1.34 per half-gallon.
It quickly became $1.50 during the pandemic, pre-gas price hikes etc. It was a product that was standard stock forever, its made in the US, and I am convinced that this item was just price lifted, but not because of economies of delivery...
As compared to a product which , say, comes from Thailand - which is shipped over-the-sea, and there are no price hikes.
This can give you insight into where profits are being harvested.
Additionally, one would do well to know ImportYeti ; a service to examine the source ORIGIN of products that you find which are made in China, in order to get the actual mfr for a product - such that if you want to cut out all middle men, you can contact the factories directly.