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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

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.

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Strypey

"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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