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To check price of items in Austria, the website is here: https://heisse-preise.io/ https://heisse-preise.io/ Browsing around, the prices look very reasonable
by j7ake 3y ago
To check price of items in Austria, the website is here:
https://heisse-preise.io/ https://heisse-preise.io/
Browsing around, the prices look very reasonable and inexpensive to me.
For example, 500 g bag of peanuts is 4.59 euros, the price has fluctuated between 3.39 to 5.59 euros over the years.
Peanuts name is “Kelly's Erdnüsse geröstet & gesalzen”
- timeon 3y ago> heisse-preise I remember that show.
- pbhjpbhj 3y ago£2.70 GBP per kg in Tesco (mid-range national supermarket). That would be €1.57 for 500g roasted salted peanuts.
- living_room_pc 3y agoYou have to keep prices in relation to salary and other CoL expenses. Europe in general has lower salaries than the US, this is true of Germany and especially Austria. For me 4.59 for erdnüssen is too high for my kart.
- the-dude 3y agoThat is ridiculous expensive for peanuts.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoOn the US west coast, I just bought 1,816 grams (4 pounds) of raw peanuts for $8.00. Edit: if the comparison is dry salted peanuts, then Walmart sells Planters brand for ~$3.50 per 500 grams.
- martopix 3y agoThere is no point comparing across countries
- the-dude 3y agoWhy not?
- inglor_cz 3y agoCommodities are routinely compared worldwide, and peanuts could be considered commodities. They are certainly closer to commodities than to services etc., even when packaged for the individual customer in fancy wrapping. I would understand your argument if you were talking about services.
- opportune 3y agoThe US produces the 5th most peanuts of all the countries in the world (interestingly, Sudan makes more). It may be a commodity but it’s a local one that doesn’t have to be internationally shipped or be taxed via tariffs. Also, in the US we don’t have VAT and apply sales tax post-hoc, so comparing store prices is really skewed by that.
- inglor_cz 3y ago"doesn’t have to be internationally shipped or be taxed via tariffs" I agree with the taxation (duties), but actual shipping overseas is dirt cheap. It is more expensive to move your cargo overland by a truck than to move it to the other side of the world using a cargo ship. The cost difference between moving a container of peanuts from Alabama to San Francisco and moving it from Alabama to Sydney is surprisingly small.
- spotplay 3y agoI don't think that point stands for peanuts. I can get a 500g bag of peanuts right now for 2.7 Euros and most likely the reason for that is the cost of living around here.
- the-dude 3y agoNL: house brand supermarket : e1,80/500g ( or less ), roasted salted.
- yurishimo 3y agoTbf the Dutch love pinda’s. I not convinced people don’t bathe in sate sauce it’s so cheap.
- rcbdev 3y agoMy friends on the west coast earn around ~5-7x times what I earn as a SWE in Vienna.
- j7ake 3y agoBut the fact people stay in Vienna means they are paying people fairly there.
- em-bee 3y agomost people are just not ready to move away from their home/family. and even most of those that are would only move to a country where they speak the same language. that means germany or switzerland. and there it means places where they can find a job, which tends to be the larger more expensive cities. so despite the cost of living, it is really hard to find other cities that offer the same quality of life at less cost. in short, moving within europe, while possible is not as easy as moving within the US. and moving outside the EU is even more difficult, so very few do it. also, vienna has massive growth in the last decade, but i think most of those people come from places that are even worse.
- jefftk 3y agoIn Boston I see basically the same: dry roasted peanuts at $3.49 for a pound, cheaper if you buy more at once.
- MrYellowP 3y agoI'm Austrian. This is insanely expensive.
- bowsamic 3y agoWhere do you live where that is reasonable?