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I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices. Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to
by codemac 4y ago
I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices.
Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to profit off of others lack of price knowledge.
- samstave 4y agoagree... I originally wrote this in my comment but pulled it out as I figured the thought of a national DB some people might scoff at -- but I have wanted this for decades >>"POS's would need to be able to report each receipt with a QR code to a central (ideally government) FDA site and that information should be API accessible for the public."
- spydum 4y agothis exists basically at very large scales with companies like nielseniq and to some degree Catalina marketing. If there was a way to make money off it, they could easily produce a lot of useful aggregate item pricing dbs by region over time.